Quarantine Tank thoughts

sdeschutter · #1 01-11-2016, 02:40 PM

What is a prazi treatment? I have a little cherub angel and goby in the qt tank right now. They have been in there for two weeks. I'm thinking a month would be a good length before I put them in the DT

Reef Pilot · #2 01-11-2016, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by sdeschutter

What is a prazi treatment? I have a little cherub angel and goby in the qt tank right now. They have been in there for two weeks. I'm thinking a month would be a good length before I put them in the DT

http://www.hikariusa.com/solutions/healthaid/prazipro/

Animal-Chin · #3 01-11-2016, 03:37 PM

I had a horrible QT experience. About a year and a half ago my tank got velvet. WIPED out my entire livestock in 5 days, brutal. I let my display go fallow for 2 months and while doing that I set up a 20 gallon long QT. Had a HOB filter, live rock and a Hydor pump for flow. Put in a clay pot for hiding. Pretty much followed every instruction on line I could find. Let the QT cycle and bought my first fish, a baby regal tang.

Regal tang hated the QT. Never got it to eat and it died.

Bought a schooling banner fish. It came in with ich, great so I medicated with some stuff I got at oceanic and got rid of the ich. Fish never made it though, died shortly after the ich was gone.

Did a 100% water change and let the tank cycle again although never saw ammonia as the live rock was already established.

Bought a Naso tang. It hid in the pot, never took food and died.

Bought another small regal, it would pick on algae a bit but basically hid and died.

Took down the QT and started just adding fish back to the display, havn't had an issue since.

I think my QT tank was just the wrong environment for the fish I was buying. Online, in many many articles they say a 20 gallon long is plenty of QT but man did I have issues...

Ian · #4 01-11-2016, 04:25 PM

Could someone give a link to a full description of tank transfer method....sounds like something I need to learn more about

hillegom · #5 01-11-2016, 04:44 PM

I have posted this before and here it is again. This is where I first read about the tank transfer method as an alternative to quarantine

http://atj.net.au/marineaquaria/3daytransfer.html

There is a lot on google to read, just put tank transfer method in search

sdeschutter · #6 01-12-2016, 12:37 AM

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Bought a Naso tang. It hid in the pot, never took food and died.

Bought another small regal, it would pick on algae a bit but basically hid and died.

Funny you say that about the tangs! I've tried to keep two yellow tangs and both died. I think some tangs are just so finicky. I say that cause I have a blue tang that went through the whole fallow TT and then QT thing for three months and he is just fine. Anyway the first Yellow Tang I put directly in my DT before it got infected with ich(I think the Blue Tang was responsible) and he lasted a week.. I just lost the second one last week. He ate for the first 5 days then just stopped. He however was in the QT tank.

I like the idea of TT for new fish then QT. I'm going to do that for my next addition.