I am starting up a 290 total system. I am coming from an apartment into a house. Now that I have the space, I would like to do a quarantine set up. What is required to do this?
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
I have twin 250 gallon tanks, one for sps,one for lps. I have a 125 QT tank that is always up and running. I keep cleaner shrimp & gobies in there along with some bangaiis, plenty of sponge.
With having peaceful fish in there, new fish will automatically be put at ease. They will also see the established fish eating prepared foods, monkey see is monkey do. This also allows me to qt all corals and make sure the color & health is like I want before I add them to the main display. If not it is easy to sell to other reefers. I keep it full of PVC, not live rock.
In the event I have a disease, inverts are moved to a 40 breeder while the 125 is treated.
do you treat with copper in that tank? I have heard alot of hearsay and second stories of what you can and can't do. I've read and heard about copper getting stuck in silicone and glass and killing invertebrates but I also read and heard from seachem with cupramine if you use carbon or curasorb you'll be fine to add invertebrates in after. Would love to hear a first hand account instead of people repeating what they read.
Break-depends on what you want to do. Again there is sooooooo many different ways to do it. if you put live rock and sand it can make dosing meds a little more tricky as they will absorb it. I currently have an observation tank that has live rock that fish first go in to make sure they are eating and see if they are healthy. After about a week they go in the ht which only has a heater and a hob power filter with some pvc.
from what I have read (again-not personal experience) the best thing to do is keep a sponge in the sump of your main tank for when you need it. I didn't have that option as I just started up my tank so I used the instant ocean bio spira to kick start that observation tank I have. I have kept two clowns, an anenome and my cuc in it with no I'll results so far.