quarantine tank issues

[marie]

I have quarantined all new fish for the last 4 yrs. Here are somethings I've learned .....It's too hard to keep a bare tank cycled just in case you come home with an impulse bought fish. Besides if I have a tank with water in it, it ends up filled with live rock and other critters, making it useless to medicate fish if I need to.

For me, the best thing I've found is to use a small tank (10g) which I set up with tank water when I need it. I then do 25% water changes twice a day (3g water changes are quick and easy to do) to keep ammonia levels down.

Oh and every fish is automatically treated with cupramine for the first 2 weeks

[burtonpj48]

Originally Posted by marie

I have quarantined all new fish for the last 4 yrs. Here are somethings I've learned .....It's too hard to keep a bare tank cycled just in case you come home with an impulse bought fish. Besides if I have a tank with water in it, it ends up filled with live rock and other critters, making it useless to medicate fish if I need to.

For me, the best thing I've found is to use a small tank (10g) which I set up with tank water when I need it. I then do 25% water changes twice a day (3g water changes are quick and easy to do) to keep ammonia levels down.

Oh and every fish is automatically treated with cupramine for the first 2 weeks

I have a 10g tank too, i remember when i first used my qt tank in february last year and i also used tank water, I never understood why the ammonia, nitrates would rise if the tank water was cycled. So i thought i could run my tank for a long time and get rid of the nitrates and ammonia. I nver expected levels to rise, several months down the road. thanks everyone for the input,
your advice is greatly appreciated.