Quarantine Setup

[Hiver]

Hello,

I resarted a reef ( 3 month old ) 90 Gal reef. Right now I have 1
Flame, 1 Yellow, 1 cup coral, 2 leathers, 3 shrimps, 1 feather duster
and star polyps, everything is happy. I put B-Ionic every morning. I
have a Bac-Pak Skimmer ( I moved it from my old 30 gal. I know it is
not big but I figuered it would be better then nothing). It is setup
with plenum. I have 3 Hagen 802 for movement. Presently I have 4 40
watts fluo. I also have 4 110 VHO but the my IceCap ballast is being
repared. BTW, I know some complained about the ballast but I like it
very mutch.

Now for questions:

I would like to add a hypo tang but this time want to be more carfull
in adding fish. I want to setup a small quarantine tank. I tough of
getting a 10 gal. I presently have a small aquaclear 300 running on my
90 gal, I tought of moving the sponge from this filter to the
quarantine for bacteria. What do you suggest for setup: Size?
Chemicals? Filtration? Time I let the fish in? Lights or not?
Anything that I dont know of?

Thank you in advance

[Harald]

"Hiver" > wrote in message
om...
>
> I would like to add a hypo tang but this time want to be more carfull
> in adding fish. I want to setup a small quarantine tank. I tough of
> getting a 10 gal. I presently have a small aquaclear 300 running on my
> 90 gal, I tought of moving the sponge from this filter to the
> quarantine for bacteria. What do you suggest for setup: Size?
> Chemicals? Filtration? Time I let the fish in? Lights or not?
> Anything that I dont know of?
>
> Thank you in advance

I would make your q-tank bigger, say 20g. Lights, NO lights or none at all.
Move the Aquaclear to your q-tank when you are ready to put a fish into
quarantine.
For water, my suggestion, which has worked well for me in the past is this,
when doing a water change from your main tank, take the water from your main
tank, and use it to replace the q-tank water. Add fresh water only to your
main tank. This way, when you do move the fish to the new tank, the q-tank
parameters should match the main tank paramaters, making the move MUCH less
stressful on the fish.
Leave the fish in for a minimum of 2 weeks, and upto 4 weeks, depending on
how the fish looks and behaves. 4 weeks is generally better though.

hth

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Harald
130 g Skimmerless SW Tank
290 lbs/6" DSB
70 lbs LR
3 B/G Chromis, 1 Tomato Clown, 1 Lawnmower Blenny, 1 Flame Angel, 1 Foxface,
1 Blue Regal, 1 Royal Gramma, 1 Cleaner Wrasse, 3 soft corals.


33 gal Skimmerless SW Nano
80 lbs/6" DSB
39 lbs LR,
1 - 3-Striped damsel, 1 Blue Devil, 1 sm. Yellow Tang

[Hiver]

"Harald" > wrote in message news:<U9ENb.22465$n44.15492@clgrps13>...
> "Hiver" > wrote in message
> om...
> >
> > I would like to add a hypo tang but this time want to be more carfull
> > in adding fish. I want to setup a small quarantine tank. I tough of
> > getting a 10 gal. I presently have a small aquaclear 300 running on my
> > 90 gal, I tought of moving the sponge from this filter to the
> > quarantine for bacteria. What do you suggest for setup: Size?
> > Chemicals? Filtration? Time I let the fish in? Lights or not?
> > Anything that I dont know of?
> >
> > Thank you in advance
>
> I would make your q-tank bigger, say 20g. Lights, NO lights or none at all.
> Move the Aquaclear to your q-tank when you are ready to put a fish into
> quarantine.
> For water, my suggestion, which has worked well for me in the past is this,
> when doing a water change from your main tank, take the water from your main
> tank, and use it to replace the q-tank water. Add fresh water only to your
> main tank. This way, when you do move the fish to the new tank, the q-tank
> parameters should match the main tank paramaters, making the move MUCH less
> stressful on the fish.
> Leave the fish in for a minimum of 2 weeks, and upto 4 weeks, depending on
> how the fish looks and behaves. 4 weeks is generally better though.
>
> hth
Thanks for the reply,

Do you suggest adding medication, if yes what?

[Steve Sells]

Medication is for Sick fish, it its sick now don't buy it. Stress coat MAY
be of value if you feel the desire to use it. its not a medication though.

Medicating "just because" is the major reason we all have to deal with so
many mutations in what use to be standard diseases.

Steve


> Do you suggest adding medication, if yes what?