Quarantine Setup

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

"Hiver" wrote in message
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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

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"Hiver" wrote in message
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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?

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?