Does anyone QT their cleaning crews?

[Damon Jensen]

Let me preface this question a bit. I am spending upward of $300 a month in CC. This is largely because my CC are mainly appetizers and in between meal snacks. I have a 200gl FOWLR. The primary culprits are, as expected, blue line, clown and picaso triggers, and thier side kick the rock mover wrasse. My tank is a literal killing field...and yes I tend to overfeed as well. I have come to accept. This is what I get for loving triggers. I figure at best, I can reduce the loss.

My thought is my QT is essentially the same parameters as my DT (I also have a HT for copper). I think that as new CC adjust to the DT, the triggers dig in before most CC can find a safe place.

I figure I am not really adding new fish that I can start my CC in QT, let them settle in first and then move them. Maybe, just maybe, with a little soft light slow music, then CC might get a little freaky deaky, and I might just have child labor......in the form of CC.

Any thoughts?

 

[Greg P]

I never did but ...
I re-started my tank back in June/19. I had no pests before the project.
I stripped the DT and went dry for months while I planned the new 'scape/cured some new rock.
I used wet man-made rock. It was in a tub for upwards of 6 months before I cycled it with liquid ammonia. Pretty sure anything on the rock would have starved.

Setup new system 06/19 with new sand and my cycled rock.
Corals looked like crap for months due to diatoms.
After diatoms, added some trochus snails from the LFS and a cleaner shrimp.
Around 12/19 found Red Bugs on my SPS

Can only surmise they came from the inverts I added without QTing them.

 

[living_tribunal]

I do, just about every time.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

 

[MMI]

I just buy mine from sources that don't house fish in the same system, like reefcleaners or tsm. This way I can just add without worrying about leaving them in a fallow quarantine for 76 days.

 

[Greg P]

I just buy mine from sources that don't house fish in the same system, like reefcleaners or tsm. This way I can just add without worrying about leaving them in a fallow quarantine for 76 days.

Mine came from a similar invert-only system. Still got bugs

 

[Greg P]

Damon, maybe you'll need to setup a couple smaller QTs for inverts.
After 72 days, the first QT can become food for the DT while the second is still 'qting'
Then a rotation starts ...
Now you're maybe an invert 'farmer' ... ? Or maybe just 'babysitter' LOL