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Put them (and anything else wet that isn't a fish) in a fishless tank for 60-76 days and keep them fed - that allows time for any fish diseases to die off, and gives time for you to observe and deal with other issues you can observe (like bubble algae or hydroids on snail shells, parasites in a shrimp, etc.).I'm about to finish up my 76 day fallow period and end my fish QT, is there any advice for quarantining new inverts I'm preparing to buy/add to my DT
What would you use to feed a cleaner shrimp?Put them (and anything else wet that isn't a fish) in a fishless tank for 60-76 days and keep them fed - that allows time for any fish diseases to die off, and gives time for you to observe and deal with other issues you can observe (like bubble algae or hydroids on snail shells, parasites in a shrimp, etc.).
Personally, I'd a meaty pellet or frozen feed and supplement it with algae/an algal feed, but only a meaty feed is really necessary:What would you use to feed a cleaner shrimp?
Personally, my suggested feeds would be as follows (I apologize, I haven't looked into frozen algae-heavy feeds enough to have one that I would suggest at this point; I'll have to remedy that):
Frozen (Meaty) - LRS Reef Frenzy, Hikari Mega Marine, then Rod's Original.
Pellets (Meaty) - Otohime, then TDO Chromaboost.
Pellets (Algal) - NLS Marine Fish Pellets (has 8 types of algae and one terrestrial plant).
^This is exactly what I do. I’m keeping three 10 gallon QT/Observation tanks for all new livestock - a medicated fish QT, a coral observation tank, and a third observation tank for motile inverts like snails, shrimp and crabs. I’m running this tank with just a heater and an AquaClear HOB filter, no ATO currently, no light, except ambient daylight and a little spill over from the coral observation tank that’s next to it (I keep my fish QT greater than 10 feet away from all other tanks to minimize any pathogens or parasites that can be passed by airborne water droplets (<Yes, this is a thing!)). My coral observation tank is bare bottom with a frag rack, but for the other inverts I gave the them an inch or so of dry sand and a few pieces of dry rock for real estate. I feed them almost as if I’m feeding fish, I give them frozen as well as flaked and pellets, and I encourage a little algae to grow in this tank, and they seem to do fine.Put them (and anything else wet that isn't a fish) in a fishless tank for 60-76 days and keep them fed - that allows time for any fish diseases to die off, and gives time for you to observe and deal with other issues you can observe (like bubble algae or hydroids on snail shells, parasites in a shrimp, etc.).