QT Snails and Crabs

[jwreffner]

What do you all use to QT snails and crabs? Any meds used or do you just throw them in a QT tank for a month and keep an eye on them?

 

[leebca]

I follow these recommendations:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-10/sp/feature/index.htm

 

[jwreffner]

Yeah I read that. The article was kind of lean on suggestions for crabs and snails.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[leebca]

I keep them in QT for observation. Not so much for a problem they have, but more for a problem they might carry in.

I inspect their shells closely, looking for Aiptasia, hair algae, or any other undesireable hitchikers.

I keep them in QT for 6 weeks to make sure they will live. Many so-called tropical snails are coming through the system that are really cold-water specimens that die pretty quickly in tropical water temperatures.

Also, the 6 weeks is a pretty good guarantee that they didn't bring any obligate fish parasites with them. If I think they may have come from infected water or an unknown aquarium, I let them stay there for 8 weeks minimum. No rush.