QT Tank Question

[reeferdeefer]

Hi everybody.
Would this work?

I have a 180g main tank and a 29g QT for fish.

What if I used the 29g QT for fish and coral.

Then if I DID have a sick fish in the QT, I would siphone water from my 180g into a 10g hospital tank and medicate. Thus, the water is cycled and the medicine doesnt touch the coral.

I would never buy a fish bigger than 3 inches and I could do a water change in the 10g every other day for a month or so.

whaddya think?

 

[Chris27]

Simply using water from an established tank won't do much good in the way of a filter, very little, if any bacteria lives in the water column, it's on the surfaces of the rock and sand.

You would be better off establishing two tanks, with separate filters.

 

[Orcrone]

Get yourself a sponge fiilter and keep the sponge in your sump. When you need to set up a hospital tank you already have a sponge populated with bacteria.

 

[Stuart60611]

Also, purchase some microbacter or other quality live bacteria product. This can work well in populating a new unestablished quarantine filter quickly so that the fitler in the quarantine tank matures quickly allowing you to place fish in the quarantine tank much faster.

 

[Maximus]

Very helpful man. Thanks a lot. I'm gonna get the sponge filter at a minimum.

Oops... this is reeferdeefer at Maximus's house. hahahahahaaa! I lag.

 

[RegalAngel]

Also, purchase some microbacter or other quality live bacteria product. This can work well in populating a new unestablished quarantine filter quickly so that the fitler in the quarantine tank matures quickly allowing you to place fish in the quarantine tank much faster.

+1

I use Seachem Stability each time I use my QT and also have an external filter....works great. Never have any ammonia issues.

 

[dvenson]

if you need an immediate qt then the best option is to do a daily water changes to ensure ammonia is not building up and while your doing the daily water changes have the sponge filter running in your sump to colonize with bacteria after a week or so your sponge should have enough bacteria so sustain a light qt bio-load.