Quarantine Tank thoughts

Reef Pilot · #1 01-11-2016, 02:12 PM

I actually haven't tried the TT method yet, as I have not bought any new fish for years. But since I lost a few during our summer outage, might just get a few replacements in the not too distant future.

I would do the TT first with buckets, and then transfer them to my QT tank. The length of the stay there would depend on the type of fish. Some (like butterfly fish) need longer acclimatization to get trained on new foods, etc. Also may want to give them a prazi treatment to get rid of any internal pests.

sdeschutter · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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.