Help with some questions I have about a quarantine/hospital tank

[nonstophoops]

agreed

filling up the 75 gallon with salty water as i type. what salinity do you recommend i drop to? I looked it up and will do so again, but seeing if what you guys think is on par with my reading.

I have not done hyposalinity, so check other sources, but I have heard of people going as low as 1.010. I probably wouldn't push it that far, but to give you an idea.

Make sure you slowly drop the salinity, if you throw the fish into hypo straight from your main tank you will stress them badly. You should match the water, using up to half water from your main tank(this will also help with bacteria and keeping the cycling of your QT to a minimum). Then, everyday lowering the specific gravity by .002 until you reach your target salinity.

 

[Pazzoman]

Thier should be a bullet proof stick on a general QT system... treatments, recommended medications...etc.

Probably the stick would be too basic...

 

[jworth]

Thier should be a bullet proof stick on a general QT system... treatments, recommended medications...etc.

Probably the stick would be too basic...

good idea.

 

[FLESHY]

Really cant talk much here man...I only run QT at work.

Most of my fish dont ever get ich, I think that it comes from underlaying problems.

If you slowly work your way down to hypo salinity, some tougher corals and inverts, and all of your lr and sand should be okay...as long as it is a petstore hypo where you probably only go down to 1.018 or something like that.

I have never gone that low. Hypo to me is 1.020...similar to what a petstore would use as a preventative measure against outbreaks.

 

[jworth]

Really cant talk much here man...I only run QT at work.

Most of my fish dont ever get ich, I think that it comes from underlaying problems.

If you slowly work your way down to hypo salinity, some tougher corals and inverts, and all of your lr and sand should be okay...as long as it is a petstore hypo where you probably only go down to 1.018 or something like that.

I have never gone that low. Hypo to me is 1.020...similar to what a petstore would use as a preventative measure against outbreaks.

so you have had ich in your home tank before and not done a treatment? Youre saying that it just has not resurfaced in pristine water conditions? I ask because in my old 29 reef i had ich before and never tore the tank apart to catch all of the fish and treat them and did not have long term problems.

 

[FLESHY]

Yes...I think ich is "in" almost all systems.

The fish just need to be stressed to have it come out.

My tang will show a speck or two...hasnt in a long time though. The last time I saw some spots on him, I hadnt done an h2o change in 4 weeks...so I did one, gave him a sheet of selecon soaked nori, and within the week it was gone.

 

[jworth]

I would really just like to go your route instead of pulling everyone. I read that if no new ich is added into the system the current population will exhaust itself and die within 10 months. I am really wrestling with myself about it. Tearing apart an established tank is no small task.

Yes...I think ich is "in" almost all systems.

The fish just need to be stressed to have it come out.

My tang will show a speck or two...hasnt in a long time though. The last time I saw some spots on him, I hadnt done an h2o change in 4 weeks...so I did one, gave him a sheet of selecon soaked nori, and within the week it was gone.

 

[TheSwampFox]

Good luck buddy, marine ich sucks

 

[fishkeeper4244]

i had to quarantine my oscar when he got sick.

 

[FLESHY]

I would really just like to go your route instead of pulling everyone. I read that if no new ich is added into the system the current population will exhaust itself and die within 10 months. I am really wrestling with myself about it. Tearing apart an established tank is no small task.

And also stresses, and sometimes kills your fish.