hi all,
I am fairly new to the saltwater hobby after year of successfully keeping tropical fish.
unfortunately I suffered a ich/ velvet break out in my reefer 250 which wiped out most of my live stock.
I am now ready to transfer the surviving fish back into the tank after a 76day fallow period - I only left the cleaner shrimp and pistol shrimp in the tank as I was advised that the ice/velvet does not effect them nor can the parasite feed on them.
I have learned my lesson with regards qt new fish and plan to qt all new additions using the tank I set up to treat / house the fish I managed to save from the reefer. I want to add a magnificent fox face (I lost my fox to the velvet outbreak) and a juvenile regal tang into the reefer along with tail spot blenny- my question is could I qt these fish together in the qt tank and how long would you recommend I should qt and observe them for before I introduce them into the reefer.
I am unsure whether to qt with cupermine or just saltwater ?
I am aware both of the above fish will out grow the reefer 250 - I accept this and will look to either upgrade my tank or remove the fish and donate to my LFS when the time comes.
I also would like to add a fire shrimp but again not sure if I need to qt separately. I am paranoid about introducing ICH/ Velvet back into my tank
thanks
I am fairly new to the saltwater hobby after year of successfully keeping tropical fish.
unfortunately I suffered a ich/ velvet break out in my reefer 250 which wiped out most of my live stock.
I am now ready to transfer the surviving fish back into the tank after a 76day fallow period - I only left the cleaner shrimp and pistol shrimp in the tank as I was advised that the ice/velvet does not effect them nor can the parasite feed on them.
I have learned my lesson with regards qt new fish and plan to qt all new additions using the tank I set up to treat / house the fish I managed to save from the reefer. I want to add a magnificent fox face (I lost my fox to the velvet outbreak) and a juvenile regal tang into the reefer along with tail spot blenny- my question is could I qt these fish together in the qt tank and how long would you recommend I should qt and observe them for before I introduce them into the reefer.
I am unsure whether to qt with cupermine or just saltwater ?
I am aware both of the above fish will out grow the reefer 250 - I accept this and will look to either upgrade my tank or remove the fish and donate to my LFS when the time comes.
I also would like to add a fire shrimp but again not sure if I need to qt separately. I am paranoid about introducing ICH/ Velvet back into my tank
thanks