Preparing a Quarantine Tank for Reuse

[RachelDex]

I recently had to treat a fish for Brooklynella with Formalin. How do I go about making the quarantine tank safe for reuse on a new purchase? What should I throw away? What can I keep? In the bare bottom tank, I have three small pieces of rock rubble, a heater, and an airstone in the tank along with a hang on the back filter with no filter media in it.


Thanks!

 

[kevin2000]

I simply scrub down the QT and everything in it with water with a bit of bleach .. rinse well, dry and immediately setup for reuse. If your not in a hurry simply letting everything thoroughly dry may work as well. Not sure about the "rock rubble" .. in most QT's I would advice going bare bottom which would include switching to PVC pipes/rain gutter material which make good places for fish to hide and are easy to clean. In those rare cases where I have added mature live rock/rubble to a Qt for "feeding" purposes I don't reuse.

Hope this helps.

 

[leebca]

Strictly speaking in generalities. If you cured the fish and then kept it in the QT for observation to verify the fish was cured, then the QT is disease-free.

After treatment and verifying my fish are disease-free, I start using the same tank over again. My QT is 70 gallons and, in this particular case, for 6 years I have not ever sterilized, dried it out, or treated the tank prior to its next use. I cure; verify; and use the QT again.

Like my display tank, all I ever do to my QT is make water changes.
:rollface:

 

[RachelDex]

Thank you for the advice!