Removing coral from infected tank - how long before you can reintroduce

[VegasMike]

I have a bunch of coral in a 100 gallon rubbermaid container with live rock, sand, snails and crabs. There are no fish whatsover in with the coral. The tank that these corals came from experienced massive fish death from what looked to be ich.

How long should these corals be kept in "quarantine" before putting them into my healthy 450 gallon tank? I plan on using Seachem's Coral Disinfectant before the transfer, but I do not believe that it will work against these types of parasites and I do not want the coral bringing the parasite in with it.

It has been almost four weeks since the corals/rock/sand were taken out of the infected tank. How much longer should I wait?

 

[paulamrein]

I'd give it 2 weeks maybe a little longer still. The life cycle of ich has a lot of factors involved. Temperature, type of ich etc. Safe measure is 6-8 weeks. As long as the coral are doing ok I see no need in rushing it only to have another infestation.