Q on Q-tank for a pair of Rays (5-7" disc)

[West1]

I am getting a pair of 5-7" Disc rays and need to put them in a quarentine tank before they go in the big tank.

I will be beefing them up the first week and then doing the Prazi/marycin(2) baths.

Before I do that, every when would be a good schedule to do water changes as they will be in a 50gl till they are parasite free?

I was thinking every 2 days a 40% H20 change?

Thanks

 

[ShadowStryder]

I quarantined my new pups in a 55 for 3.5 weeks with a 10 days Prazi Treatment, with WC
every 2-3 days. A bigger concern is making sure you are using well established and overfiltering
for the 50 gal as they will produce excessive waist.
Also I didn't run a Bacterial treatment as I didn't deem it necessary, plus it will damage the BB.

What type of rays, Hystrix?

 

[West1]

Rapps Hystrix

I have my 50gl running with a RenaX3 and a Sponge filter just for more BB. Currently housing 3 Ansorgii and a orino. They will be moved and only the Rays will be there

So you did WC every 2-3 days with the meds in there?
Being that you take out some Meds in the water changes, do you bathe them longer or add the diff of Meds? Or do you just leave it as is till the next treatment?

 

[Zoodiver]

I'd not use that as a Q tank if you just had other fish in there. Q should start clean, so you aren't possibly introducing your fish into a dirty environment.

After a waterchange, you should dose for the amount you took out.

 

[ShadowStryder]

I used a fresh tank with filters pulled off of other systems. In that small of an
environment I did not want to risk an ammonia spike with the amount of waste
increase the rays will produce. I was turning over appx 5-6 hundred gallons/hour
never had an issue with ammonia.
After WC I replaced the meds = to amount of water removed.

I figured it was Hystrix, I seen that Rapps was getting quite a few in end of
this week.

Also, I don't believe the XP3 will be enough to keep the ammonia down especially with
other fish in there.

 

[West1]

Water sounds like it wont be an issue... ill just drain the tank and add 100% new water a day or two before I get them. Will just keep the same filtration on the tank running tho. Thanks for the advise on that causae I was going to use the same water just with a 50% WC

So every water change just dose with meds the amount of water that was replaced?

Also can I mix PraziPro with Marycin (newb on Meds for the most part)?

As for the grow outs in the tank currently, they will go to my sump in my 300

 

[West1]

So every water change just dose with meds the amount of water that was replaced?

Also can I mix PraziPro with Marycin (newb on Meds for the most part)?

TTT.........

 

[flamenco-t]

You should have at least 1 good tank that is free of any foreign contaminant. Then keep as much as sponge filter as you can in it.

When I start a QT, I used clean water, clean equipment and using the sponge filter or filter media from my "storage unit" in the clean tank.
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Once I am done with QT, I'd rinse the sponge filter clean, let it dry completely and put it back in the clean tank and let it be seeded again.

The idea is to QT whatever is on your new fish, NOT what you put in the new fish when you put them in the running QT tank.

stan

 

[flamenco-t]

BTW, I QT'ed a pair of 10-12" rays before in a 20 gallon. Not ideal, but it does get the job done..

40 gallon breeder is an ideal size for QT due to the wide footprint.

 

[West1]

You should have at least 1 good tank that is free of any foreign contaminant. Then keep as much as sponge filter as you can in it.

When I start a QT, I used clean water, clean equipment and using the sponge filter or filter media from my "storage unit" in the clean tank.
\
Once I am done with QT, I'd rinse the sponge filter clean, let it dry completely and put it back in the clean tank and let it be seeded again.

The idea is to QT whatever is on your new fish, NOT what you put in the new fish when you put them in the running QT tank.

stan

Will do... taking lots of notes

BTW, I QT'ed a pair of 10-12" rays before in a 20 gallon. Not ideal, but it does get the job done..

40 gallon breeder is an ideal size for QT due to the wide footprint.

... thats crazy. Glad they made it. Did you do the water changes like the other posts in the thread, except daily?

Wow, that did make me feel a lot better tho. Now I wont worry as much


Can you mix PraziPro and Marycin/2 together? Or one at a time?