TT method and jawfish or wrasse

[ladyshark]

I am thinking of adding jawfish or fairy wrasse to my reef tank, and am planning my quarantine set up. My QT will be bare bottom with pvc and such, and would prefer the TT method over copper for ich prevention.

I see that a bowl of sand is recommended for use in a QT for sand dwellers like wrasses and jawfish. How does this work with the TT method?

I guess a fresh batch of sand is used for each tranfer? Then the sand in the prior tank is dried out to rid it of ich? Could be a lot of sand....

Anyone dealt with this? How did you set it up?

Thanks

 

[loup]

I just throw away the sand after each transfer. I've TT jawfish without sand before without issue.

 

[ladyshark]

Since its a short time, probably ok without sand, so long as rest of the QT gives them sand to burrow in, I supposes--they would have the pvc to hide in

 

[Dmorty217]

Or if you use sand, just use it sparingly. A wrasse won't need a lot of sand and if it's a jaw fish you pick then I would skip sand all together

 

[prickles]

1/2-3/4" pvc pipe works well for hiding spaces at least for bluespots. I tried QTing them with bowls of sand in the tank and they ignored it and went for the pvc.

if you don't cover your tank, you might as well not get jawfish. They will jump out.

 

[ladyshark]

Thanks for your feedback

Yeah, I read that about jumping--wrasses too. I cover my tank well, and will rig something together for the QT

Actually have a bigger issue to deal with before adding jawfish--getting rid of the couple of gorilla crabs that hitchhiked with my rock. Setting up traps this week. No sense in going through QT if the bottom dwelling fish will get attached by those ugly mugs, right? I want to end up with a group of nice, peaceful, docile reef fishes.

Always something in this hobby, eh?

 

[Mark9]

if you don't cover your tank, you might as well not get jawfish. They will jump out.

+1 on that.
Jawfish is a great fish, except for the jumping.
Mine got in the overflow 3 times, and it was not easy getting him out.
The 3rd time, he jumped out of the tank when i was attempting the rescue.
Then one day, I forgot to close the lid after feeding, the rest is history.