How you quarantine a coral?

[juanmanuelsanch]

Well the question might be odd, but I had a velvet outbreak. So I will be more serious about quarantine from now on. The problem is, how you do it with invertebrates that might have something like ich or velvet attached to it, you cant treat it with copper.

You need to have them also 90 days in a fallow tank to see if something is in it?

Whats your normal procedure?

Thanks.

 

[Sk8r]

Coral doesn't take fish diseases or parasites, but they have their own. YOu can dip corals in, say, Revive, but fallow period will do in anything that might have parasites encysted. You can get new corals, no problem, just keep fish out of that tank for the whole fallow period.
Corals should be dipped, of course, on receipt. And I've only ever rinsed off my inverts in a bowl of tank water before putting them on in.

 

[GimpyFin]

Similar to what Sk8r suggested, I will generally dip my corals in Coral Rx for about 10 minutes before adding them into the tank. I don't otherwise QT them like I would fish.

 

[Mad_Reefer]

I know there are better methods, but I use 80/20 tank water/hydrogen peroxide for a couple minutes. It seemed to hurt the corals a lttle, but a couple days later they look normal. I also inspected close and remove anything that looks odd.

 

[scooter31707]

I am a little paranoid when it comes to this. I just put new inverts and corals into a 10 gallon QT for 72 days before introducing them into my DT.

 

[Sk8r]

zoas, however, should be held for a couple of weeks in a qt, because their nudibranch pests lay eggs, and those survive dip, hatching later.

 

[juanmanuelsanch]

Yeah but how you do with fish pest? I know they dont affect corals, but there could be cist or an egg that could cause an outbreak.

I dont want to have another velvet or any other pest in my tank from now on...

 

[anthonys51]

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