Bypass qt of initial clean up crews

[w3ish3ng]

I would like to know everyone opinion on the abovementioned.

It will be a new tank with no fish nor corals as they will be quarantined for a minimum of 3 months period before entering the display tank.

Am I right to say that with this mimimum of 3 months period, that any disease regardless of it harming the fish or the coral will be eliminated due to the lack of host?

Or do you think I should still quarantine the clean up crews with the corals? I'm afraid that the bioload of this initial clean up crews will be too high for my coral qt and that the Bayer dip for the corals might just wipe them all out and screw up the qt parameters.

Lastly, for all future addition of clean up crews, I will qt them together with the corals.

 

[scuzy]

Well your tank will be fallow there won't be diseases since no fish host. So ich won't survive

 

[w3ish3ng]

Yes, I understand for the ich and velvet part due to their life cycle, but is there any risk for other fish disease?

 

[Deinonych]

As long as there are no fish in the tank, there is no risk to future fish additions provided adequate fallow time is allowed. For crypto it's 10-12 weeks, for brook and velvet it's 6-8 weeks.

 

[w3ish3ng]

Thanks, any idea for the coral side? As in those coral bugs such as aefw and so on?

 

[scuzy]

Well you won't have corals so no food source for those parasites either