QT setup for inverts?

[ThaBeast]

I have a 20g long I am setting up to quarantine some peppermint shrimp & emerald crabs. I have seeded the aqua clear filter by putting the sponge & bio media in my DT sump a month or so ago, but will PVC be sufficient hiding material or do they need some rock too?

 

[Betta132]

Why do you think they need to be QTed?

Also, a month may be long enough for all the useful bacteria in the media to starve to death, given that there isn't anything in the tank to feed them.

 

[ThaBeast]

Why do you think they need to be QTed?

Also, a month may be long enough for all the useful bacteria in the media to starve to death, given that there isn't anything in the tank to feed them.

Because I never want to battle ich in my DT again! I have a healthy happy relatively reef safe regal angel in my display that I don't want to risk. I realize I need to feed them, just wondering if they will be ok with PVC pipe for habitat

 

[ThaBeast]

Also, a month isn't enough time to be free of ich cysts

 

[Brando457]

You'll be fine doing it how you want, just feed them some pellets/flakes a day and perform water changes.

Pvc will be fine for them to hide in until prob 6 - 8 weeks is up. I'm with you brother I qt everything now

 

[Calappidae]

Inverts should not be quanteened. An invert cannot catch ich like a fish. Hence why we leave parasite infected aquariums fishless rather than invertless.

 

[ThaBeast]

Inverts should not be quanteened. An invert cannot catch ich like a fish. Hence why we leave parasite infected aquariums fishless rather than invertless.

Actually most experts say "if it's wet, it needs quarantine"

 

[Calappidae]

Actually most experts say "if it's wet, it needs quarantine"

A fish needs treated prior to introducing in the aquarium to reduce risk of inserting an invasive parasite (ich primarly)

An invert CAN'T be treated as copper will kill the invert as well as the parasite. Inverts do not catch the same parasites fish catch, and the ones inverts are affected by usually are not as invasive or uncontrollable requiring all of them to be removed from the tank and "cycle" the parasite out.. (Isopods are probably one of the few and they are very very noticable in the invert to the naked eye and not even that invasive.) This makes it completely unnessecary to QT.

Should ich be "hitchhiking" or stuck free floating on the shrimp.. it can only be killed by treating it.. which inverts cannot mix with medication used.

That or you waste your time and house the invert by itself in a QT for 8-12 weeks if you want to go that route..

Corals on the other hand some will dip or soak in something to stop invasive things like flatworms, or possibly parasites like ich since most LFS don't QT or go for the entire treatment.

 

[ThaBeast]

Never intended to medicate the inverts, just hold them in a QT tank for 72 days.

 

[Shawn O]

Can't hurt to QT. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Betta132]

Because I never want to battle ich in my DT again! I have a healthy happy relatively reef safe regal angel in my display that I don't want to risk. I realize I need to feed them, just wondering if they will be ok with PVC pipe for habitat

I meant that the bacteria might have all been starved, meaning that you have an uncycled QT tank.