questions about setting up quarantine tank

[sonycrr]

when putting new fish or sick fish in a quarantine tank, how do you deal with ammonia?

do people used ammolock or a power filter with a ammonia filtering pad or just frequent water changes?

thanks for the help.

 

[tcarswell]

I keep a tank that I use mainly for culturing live bacteria. I use sponge filters that I can transfer to the Q tank. I also keep some messy fish I can move around in there if need be. These two oscars make a nice amount of bacteria for the sponges and keeps me from having to put the sponges in my show aquariums.

I realize not everybody has a spare tank to do so with but another route would be to keep a bottle of sea chems stability and prime on hand. Or keeping a sponge going in their main aquarium and transferring it to the Q tank. I hope this made sense im in a bit of a hurry.

 

[sonycrr]

when u put a cycled sponge in a tank that was used for meds, do you reuse the sponge afterwards or throw it away?

thanks for the reply.

 

[tcarswell]

You could re use it I don't see why not Just wring it out really good. Or the sponge on the right came with replacement sponges you could always pop on a new one but you would be starting over with the bacteria culture. Its up to you. I dont see it absorbing enough meds to affect a larger tank. The only thing I might worry about is if there was any remains of the disease you are treating in the sponge still.. But im OCD about that.

 

[msjinkzd]

you can reuse them. If the treated fish is well enough to go back in the display tank, there should be nothing contagious left in the tank anyway.

I keep spare sponge filters in my canister filters so that when I set up a new tank, I can just remove one and replace it with a new one for future use.