TTM and QT Procedures

[RayAllen3422]

I will be ready for livestock at some point in the next month or so. These are the quarantine procedures that I have come up with:

Fish: Tank transfer method for basically 2 weeks following the guidelines in the sticky here. Two 10 gallon tanks. Prazipro during the 2nd and 4th transfers for flukes. Then move to 20 gallons main QT for 4 weeks of observations.

Inverts: 6 weeks in main 20 gallon QT

Coral: Bayer dip and 6 weeks observation in main 20 gallon QT.

The main questions I have are:
1. Should inverts go through TTM too? I have heard varying reports of whether they can carry ich.
2. Is it okay to add the fish with corals and inverts after TTM? Or is this making a risk for ich and defeating the purpose of TTM.

Just trying to do my due diligence and get my procedures in place before hand. Thanks for any insight.

 

[thegrun]

1. It is highly unlikely that inverts would have ich cysts on them, certainly they do not host ich. I would go ahead and put them directly into your 20 gallon QT. If in the unlikely event they did carry ich, it would become apparent once you place the fish into your QT for the 4 week observation period after the TTM is complete. If ich did pop up you would then have to go through another round of tank transfers, a pain but worth the risk IMHO.
2. There is risk of the corals carrying eggs or cysts of pests, so it is imperative that you dip them before placing them in your QT. Again if anything gets past the dip it would befone apparent during the 4 weeks of observation. I use a 10 minute dip in Coral Pro Cure and then 5 minutes in Revive for my corals. I haven't taken the Bayer dip route yet but am tempted.

 

[RayAllen3422]

1. It is highly unlikely that inverts would have ich cysts on them, certainly they do not host ich. I would go ahead and put them directly into your 20 gallon QT. If in the unlikely event they did carry ich, it would become apparent once you place the fish into your QT for the 4 week observation period after the TTM is complete. If ich did pop up you would then have to go through another round of tank transfers, a pain but worth the risk IMHO.
2. There is risk of the corals carrying eggs or cysts of pests, so it is imperative that you dip them before placing them in your QT. Again if anything gets past the dip it would befone apparent during the 4 weeks of observation. I use a 10 minute dip in Coral Pro Cure and then 5 minutes in Revive for my corals. I haven't taken the Bayer dip route yet but am tempted.

Thanks so all in all I think I have a good process in place. It's confusing so I'm just trying to cover all bases.

 

[Squibege]

Sounds like a great plan! I've been working on determining what I want my practices to be and I'm thinking closely along the lines you are. For the inverts I got the idea from another member here to do a series of "rinses" in small amounts of normal salt water to ensure you aren't transferring tank water to your QT in with them.

 

[Kardjunkie]

I just did my first Bauer dip on some new corals and I couple I already in tank. It seemed to work great but I notified that it did not kill vermetid snails except the ones I crushed that I new where on them and where. Has anyone noticed that Bayer doesn't work on them or I just did it correctly? Also, it if doesn't work, what does get rid of them.

Sorry rayallen, didn't mean to high jack your thread. Your plans sounds great and wish I had the space to copy your plan.

 

[RayAllen3422]

I just did my first Bauer dip on some new corals and I couple I already in tank. It seemed to work great but I notified that it did not kill vermetid snails except the ones I crushed that I new where on them and where. Has anyone noticed that Bayer doesn't work on them or I just did it correctly? Also, it if doesn't work, what does get rid of them.

Sorry rayallen, didn't mean to high jack your thread. Your plans sounds great and wish I had the space to copy your plan.

I'm curious about this as well. Hopefully others chime in.