QT'ing help

[Spar]

I should be getting my 450g in next week. I have recently setup a 75g QT tank for fish (going to do hypo) and a 40g QT for coral/inverts (just doing a 8 week sit-out period, on top of dips on the way into the QT tank).

My main question is in regard to the necessity to QT all my new hermits/shrimp/snails in the 40g first if I will not have any fish in my 450g for another 8 weeks anyway. E.g. could the 450g just play as an initial QT tank?

As for Ich, I am sure this is a fine approach, but what other nasties could they bring along that 8 weeks of isolation away from fish would not fix?

 

[Lina5910]

the reason people use separate tanks as their QTs is because if you have to treat your livestock with copper based medications, that tank can't even be used again for corals and inverts. Even tiny amounts of copper will kill them. Good luck man

 

[FranktheTankTx]

The question was in regards to hermits. I've never QT'd a hermit. You can't treat hermits with copper anyways... IMO, go ahead with hermits in DT while you QT your first fish & coral.

Take your time. You'll do great w/ that size of a tank.

 

[Sk8r]

The method you're using is to catch small parasites and infections. To handle your snails and inverts, I'd just set up a series of small identical teacup 'baths' in which you successively soak your specimens, then move them on to the next. Every bath diminishes the likelihood of ich going with them. That's one way; but you have a tank with no fish---right? So just dump them in, and with no fish for 8 weeks, any ich they brought would starve out anyway. It's only fish that can actually host and help this stuff reproduce, so while it can travel in a water drop, without a fish, it will reliably starve out in 8 weeks. Get your crew to work!

 

[lucidheights]

putting the inverts in the dt for that long without fish should eliminate any parasites that might affect fish, plus it will give you something to look at while you wait. When i stocked my tank, i bought all the inverts i wanted first then stocked my tank with fish after 2 months qt.

 

[Palting]

You said you are already going to do coral dips, so those can go straight to the DT. Same thing with the inverts. I don't believe there will be any "nasties" that require you to do a separate QT for these animals if the DT will be fishless for 6-8 weeks anyway. Reserve the 40 gal for coral QT at another time, when you already have fish in the DT, and fish in the 75 gal QT as well. GL!!

 

[Spar]

Thanks all!

What about flatworms? Should I just use Flatworm Exit on all the initial new inverts just in case?

I will still put coral direct in QT as don't want to risk red bugs etc.

Just going to stay patient!


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