Hospital tank setup/hospitable?

[Scottfree]

What type of filtration do you have on your hospital tank? What size? I was thinking about starting a 20L as a hospital tank ,with some PVC tubing so the aquatic buddies can hide during treatment. Is it possible to maintain biological filtration while treating a fish with various meds? Anything else you can add tips/hints it would be appreciated......Signing off, well no really....

Damnit I wanted this in general aquaria.....rrrrrr

 

[b3n3d1ck]

Well, most medications have anti-biotic properties that will most likely kill the beneficial bacteria growing in the filter medium. This means partial water change is a must. Well, even if the medication states that it won't harm the BB, I still perform partial water change.

 

[Gothyc_samurai]

buddies? wtf lmfao.

 

[Jason_S]

a lot of people just use sponge filters in their hospital tanks. when not using the hospital tank they either keep other fish in the Hosp. tank or leave the Hosp. tank empty. if they leave it empty they run the filters in other tanks and move them over when the Hosp. tank is needed.

I don't really have a hospital tank but if one was necessary I could move fish around and create an empty tank to us as one.