QT accident need advice

[Fizbang]

So I have 2 qt's setup, 1 for the fish, the other for inverts and corals. Both have been up for about a week prior with fish and inverts added to their respective tanks about 4 days ago. Lost 1 fish (Goby) not even sure how, looked great in the morning and passed by the afternoon on the 3rd day. I think the Coral Beauty may have chased him to death.

Anyway, not really my main reason for the post. I got my first corals yesterday and did my dip on them today. I thought I rinsed them well enough, I was mindful of trying to get all the dip off. However, I must have missed some. Not too long after I put them in the invert qt tank, the snapping shrimp that is biding his time there started freaking out then kind of keeled over. The only think I could think to do was grab an acclimation box and stick him in the fish qt. I have not started medicating the fish qt yet so clean water. He has luckily seemed to revive and I hope he makes it through the night.

The main question now is how to get him back in his proper qt tank. I put some carbon in the filter and was thinking 80 to 100% water change tomorrow? Would that be too drastic for the corals now in there ( a cabbage leather and green rhodactis)?

 

[rfgonzo]

Am I missing something? Did you cycle your QT tanks before introducing livestock?

 

[allendehl]

As long as salinity and temp are in range with the current water I'd think you can do a full wc.

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[Uncle99]

Agree with the above

 

[Fizbang]

Am I missing something? Did you cycle your QT tanks before introducing livestock?

Short answer is yes they were cycled. Water parameters were/are still good, except for whatever I introduced accidentally yesterday.

 

[Fizbang]

I woke to a surprise this morning and the Shrimp has molted in the acclimation box...so now I'm not even sure what happened yesterday was my fault or if he was freaking about because he was about to molt and couldn't breathe. Either way since he molted he gets to go straight to the DT today and not back to QT. Unless the stress from what I thought happened caused the molt.

 

[Uncle99]

He was likely trying to pull out if his molt. Changes in conditions can bring on a most.
When he makes the display, some, including me with shrimps and leathers used .03-.06 iodide, not iodine....which Will aid leathers and shrimps in their most process.

 

[Uncle99]

This word replacement thing is annoying....
Most = Molt

 

[Sk8r]

Likewise there is nothing wrong with clean water...as long as you keep your filter pads clean of any brown stain and keep ammonia from forming, you're good WITHOUT cycling a qt. Takes some maintenance and no overfeeding, but highly doable. New water in a bare bucket is safer than a tank with problems.