How do you quarantine sand shifting gobies

[Tripod1404]

Hello People, I am considering to quarantine a hectors goby. However this fish shifts sand or hunt pods for feeding and it is not interested in prepared or frozen foods. In a quarantine tank I cannot have sand or pods, so the goby would starve. Considering these, how should I do the quarantine?

 

[Deefish714]

maybe silica sand. Check this post http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?threads/a-fish-quarantine-process-step-by-step.23584/ not the pro but Hopefully some more experienced members will chime in for you. Good luck

 

[jmm]

If the point is to quarantine and then place in your display, then the gobie will eventually be exposed to the sand in the display. Use some of that in the quarantine.

Remember, the quarantine is to prevent the new fish from bringing in a disease to the existing display inhabitants, not to protect the new fish from the existing fish.

I probably wouldn't replace the sand in the display with the used quarantine sand, however, as there may be something you missed.

 

[ThRoewer]

The most important thing with these gobies is to deworm them.
I would give them a formalin bath and then run them through TTM with prazipro dosing. I would also consider dosing the TTM tanks with CP (Ick-Shield Powder) against velvet. This way you can eliminate the worst diseases within 2 weeks. In parallel I would set up a 20gal QT with fine coral sand and a bottle of Tigger Pods and maybe some other pods.. Feed the pods daily with some pulverized flake food and by the time the fish are through TTM you have a cycled tank crawling with pods for them. You may want to add some sand and sludge from your DT as well to get things going.

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