Quarantine Tank Plumbing

[Reef Pilot]

I actually have 2 tanks that I can use as QT's. One is a refugium that I can connect or disconnect to my main sump. The other is stand alone, but I still have it plumbed so I can send DT water to it with a water change, to get the new fish acclimatized to the DT.

It really helps to have the DT upstairs, and my sump and other tanks all downstairs.

I use hypo salinity when quarantining new fish. Have never used copper or other chemicals.

[jostafew]

I think the conclusion has been made above to keep it stand alone (which I think is the right thing to do) but regarding the dissimilar water conditions there's a really easy way to deal with that. When you're doing water changes in the DT, use the water that you pull out of there to do a water change in the QT. That way you're always cycling water from the DT through the QT and the params will be very nearly identical so there's no acclimation stress going from one to the other, asside from the trauma of being cought of course!