Live Rock In Quarantine?

[sgreen]

The live rock will hold the medication and it could kill whatever is in the rock, I would take the rock out.

[MarkoD]

ok thanks for the advice. ill remove the rock before medicating.

but what about having bioballs in the sump? would the medication kill the beneficial bacteria on the bioballs?

[phi delt reefer]

marko - get an AquaClear HOB filter and throw it on the back of the tank to filter the quarantine water. Take the filter pads from the hob and throw them in your "display tank" or display tank sump for a couple days to start accumlating the beneficial bacterial. Do a water change in your display tank and throw that water into your QT tank and put the filter pads into the HOB. You should be good from there

Bioballs are too much work to keep clean.


once you are done with the QT you can just empty the tank and throw out the filter pads. When you need to QT again just put some new filter pads back in your DT and reapeat the process i mentioned above.

[MarkoD]

i cant use water from the display tank because im afraid that theres ich still in the water (which is the reason for the QT)

i set up the QT few days ago and have had a few pieces of LR in there.

and im going to be using the QT for the next few months while i stock my 180 gallon. im not sure that a filter pad is going to help me out long term.
plus i already have everything setup with the sump

[MarkoD]

maybe i can just put filter pads in the sump and change or clean one every week or so

[phi delt reefer]

have a read of this thread and ICH;

http://www.reefland.com/forum/marine...-ich-help.html

the ich parasites can latch onto anything (ie live rock/sand from you display)

with that said maybe run the QT with nothing more than a fresh set of filter pads (to keep the tank clean) and regular water changes to export the waste.


are you removing all of your fish to QT them?

[MarkoD]

No only new fish. The 3 fish I have left in my display are no longer infected