The world is divided into 2 groups of people, those that do quarantine and those that will do quarantine. I am about to cross that line, but first need to clear my main display from whatever diseases are present there.
I believe I should leave the MDT free from fish for 72 days (I guess crabs and snails are not a problem?)
And need to assemble a Quarantine tank for all my fish and follow the regular quarantine procedures to ensure that, when they return to the tank, no bugs come back with them.
My tank currently hosts:
2 Zebrasomas
1 Blue tang
1 Ctenochaetus strigosus
1 clown
1 Halichoeres melanurus
1 Halichoeres marginatus
1 Centropyge heraldi
2 goby
1 damselfish
1 Cirhilabrus rubrisquamis
I have a 64 Gallons tank laying around and was thinking to use it to do the quarantine. My doubt is, is this tank enought to host this many fish for so long? Is a sponge filter enough for this many fish? In order to follow the fallow in the MDT is it necessary to remove any inverts such as crabs and snails or this are safe to leave there?
I am planning to follow the instructions provided by @Humblefish in https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-quarantine.189815/
Any recommendations?
Another question I have is, can I use the tank for corals after treating with copper? Is it enough to do good cleaning and rising, or this aquarium should be left for quarantine everafter? I am planning to setup something smaller for future fish aquisitions, since this seems to big for me for that purpose.
Thank you in advance!
I believe I should leave the MDT free from fish for 72 days (I guess crabs and snails are not a problem?)
And need to assemble a Quarantine tank for all my fish and follow the regular quarantine procedures to ensure that, when they return to the tank, no bugs come back with them.
My tank currently hosts:
2 Zebrasomas
1 Blue tang
1 Ctenochaetus strigosus
1 clown
1 Halichoeres melanurus
1 Halichoeres marginatus
1 Centropyge heraldi
2 goby
1 damselfish
1 Cirhilabrus rubrisquamis
I have a 64 Gallons tank laying around and was thinking to use it to do the quarantine. My doubt is, is this tank enought to host this many fish for so long? Is a sponge filter enough for this many fish? In order to follow the fallow in the MDT is it necessary to remove any inverts such as crabs and snails or this are safe to leave there?
I am planning to follow the instructions provided by @Humblefish in https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-quarantine.189815/
Any recommendations?
Another question I have is, can I use the tank for corals after treating with copper? Is it enough to do good cleaning and rising, or this aquarium should be left for quarantine everafter? I am planning to setup something smaller for future fish aquisitions, since this seems to big for me for that purpose.
Thank you in advance!