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02-03-2016, 10:29 PM
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Another tip, test the water in the bag before you put the fish in QT or your tank. I run my salinity at 1.025 and my alk at 9-10.
I've brought home fish and the water was 1.015 with alk of 5. This is a huge difference and unless you slowly raise the levels your fish is going to really feel it. inverts may just die and fish will be stressed. Drip long and slow to ease the transition to your reef levels. 
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02-04-2016, 01:05 AM
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I use tank transfer for all my new fish. Have not lost one yet due to this process.
15 days. I never thought of doing this for snails, but have not bought any since before I used TT Here is a good read about it http://atj.net.au/marineaquaria/3daytransfer.html
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08-30-2016, 07:10 AM
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Forgive the older thread bump, but this is a curious topic to me given I've set up a new 65 gallon tank and have the ability to properly QT fish now (and have started on the first two additions already). For inverts it seems like a lot of work and delay for CUC, though at the (slight?) risk of crypto tagging along and making the fish QT somewhat pointless.
I know we have a lot of GVRD people on this board, and it seems the local retail livestock quality lately is not so great in some of the chatting I've done over the past weeks. I'm still on the fence towards not 72 daying the inverts, but if they're in tanks with suspect fish then.. well you can see where it's going. Just being paranoid, rash, or responsible thinking? I haven't seen any signs of crypto in my nano tank so far, but you never really can know until the visible signs hit.
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