emerald crab
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I dip and quarantine for 6 weeks. I quarantine 1 coral/quarantine tank. Small tank 2 gal with heater skimmer and two 10w leds, one 16000K and one blue.
Do you QT your new frags??
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RynosReef
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Here's a couple pics of my QT. Nothing too elaborate. I have a 10g tank, a maxijet 900 for flow, a Nova Extreme t5 light fixture on a timer from lowes, and a small heater and digital thermometer, and a eheim hang on back filter for filtration. I check the s.g. and top off as necessary using a piece of electrical tape to see how much water evaporated. A QT doesn't have to be a all out reef set up. It really just needs to be adequate enough to keep your corals alive, so you can observe and treat them as necessary before putting them into your display tank.
This makes it easy to observe the corals up close, any time of the day to really make sure they're free of pests. It can be hard to get a close look like this once they're glued to your rocks.
This makes it easy to observe the corals up close, any time of the day to really make sure they're free of pests. It can be hard to get a close look like this once they're glued to your rocks.
MammothReefer
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eh I can barely keep my sps going in a full blown stable reef with a pile of top notch equipment. Now was I can do it w/a qt for anything more then a couple days.. Oh, and I got AEFW because I was half *ss dipping stuff, I wasn't as diligent as I like to believe I was.
Here's a couple pics of my QT. Nothing too elaborate. I have a 10g tank, a maxijet 900 for flow, a Nova Extreme t5 light fixture on a timer from lowes, and a small heater and digital thermometer, and a eheim hang on back filter for filtration. I check the s.g. and top off as necessary using a piece of electrical tape to see how much water evaporated. A QT doesn't have to be a all out reef set up. It really just needs to be adequate enough to keep your corals alive, so you can observe and treat them as necessary before putting them into your display tank.
This makes it easy to observe the corals up close, any time of the day to really make sure they're free of pests. It can be hard to get a close look like this once they're glued to your rocks.
Love the simplicity of the system! Great example for simple qt tanks!
krzyphsygy
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LOL, my sentiments exactly
emerald crab
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RynosReef, I've seen that you quarantine more than one coral/tank. Have you ever transferred pests from one coral to the other while in quarantine?
RynosReef
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Not that I know of. But the way I quarantine, it wouldn't really matter. In the pic I put up, several corals are in the QT at once because each of those corals were bought from the same vendor and arrived together. If anything seems, pest-like I'll treat them all together. Because it would definitely be possible for pest to transfer to other corals in QT if you start adding more corals from different places.
Quarantining is isolating corals from others. So if you buy corals from somewhere and put them in QT, don't buy or add any more corals to the QT until the current corals are safe and in your display. If your display has pest then you've got to treat all the corals together in QT.
Also remember that a quarantine tank should be a QT and only a QT. Not a frag tank, not a make shift refugium (so no sand or fish) or a place to cure live rock. It's all about isolation from any other system, including your own, especially if your system has pests.
If you know for a fact that your display tank is free of pest, then it's ok to mix display tank water with QT during water changes. I'll use my dirty display water from a water change, in my QT water change. It helps keep the two system's chemistry close. But I wouldn't mix QT water with my display.
Quarantining is isolating corals from others. So if you buy corals from somewhere and put them in QT, don't buy or add any more corals to the QT until the current corals are safe and in your display. If your display has pest then you've got to treat all the corals together in QT.
Also remember that a quarantine tank should be a QT and only a QT. Not a frag tank, not a make shift refugium (so no sand or fish) or a place to cure live rock. It's all about isolation from any other system, including your own, especially if your system has pests.
If you know for a fact that your display tank is free of pest, then it's ok to mix display tank water with QT during water changes. I'll use my dirty display water from a water change, in my QT water change. It helps keep the two system's chemistry close. But I wouldn't mix QT water with my display.
