That is the plan, are you referring to fish disease or coral pest?
Fish disease. But also, if you're changing the water in your display, it will be due to poor (or sub-optimal) water quality... why would you want your coral (in the QT) to have this water added?
How?? If the rock is kept fallow (i.e. no fish added) for the correct period of time to allow fish pathogens to die off, how does this have anything to do with its biodiversity??
I have a combined system with sump that is three tanks at about 110g, 2 40 breeders, 4 20’s and 6 10’s. All run all the time incase I get an urge. Then sterilized and reset for the next batch. If problems arise I can use them for TTM.
Starting your 14g with live rock is basically a kind of quarantine anyway, observational at the very least. If you start it with the live rock, it will be a few weeks anyway for it to get established. You will be well entertained with the goodies that came with it. In fact you may have to feed your new tank with phyto etc. even before you put one fish in. You can take a page out of @Paul B 's book and view that a healthy fish that is nutritionally happy will be able to fight off stress related diseases. Clownfish I feel are pretty hardy creatures in the first place. I think you are thinking too much about it. Just enjoy the experience, and learn by observation.
@PaulB & I have never quarantined in our combined 106 years of reefing. He dives for his live rock, I purchase mine direct from the divers.
So you're telling me that if I buy premium Gulf Live Rock and keep it in a tank that happens to have no fish, the biodiversity is decreased?? I don't believe that for a minute!
I think I am too lol, I’m still fairly new. Funny you mentioned paul, I’ve always thought how crazy he was for doing what he does, especially when this forum has a lot of “QT this or else suffer the consequences’ type of vibe.
Except surgeonfish...
You're missing the whole point of this thread! I suggest you read it from the beginning and you'll see what the OP is asking. We're talking about potentially keeping fish out of the tank containing the live rock until a fallow period has been completed. Nothing more.
MARSH, wait… are you from Houston ?
No, but I am ;)
We agree on something ;)
If you want a dependable, long term easy to operate ecosystem, then cycle the tank with 5 pounds of diver collected live rock and 5 pounds of live sand.
When J worked 28 days on/28 days off, Transoceans corporate office was in Houston and I was an active member of MARSH 20 years ago.
Fellow Houstonian, how are ya
I’m definitely going live rock. I would like to go bare bottom if possible since I want to keep water changes fairly simple without having to siphon sand, thoughts ?
I might go with one of the nano packages that either Gulf or Tampa Bay sells. You are going to pay the shipping anyway. Or they also have a baserock and premium. Which lets you cycle your tank with base rock and after a month you get the premium rock so you don’t lose anything.
When I was a teenager in Lafayette, La my father took the neighborhood boys deep sea fishing 100 miles south of Intracoastal City. We would tie up to production platforms and because I often got seasick, I transferred to platform via swing rope. From this steady platform, I would gaze into the “deep blue”. Fast forward 25 years and I am a Subsea Engineer on Transocean’s dynamically positioned drillship “Discovery Seven Seas”. Using ROV high resolution camera, I was able to see what is in the deep blue and the beauty never ceases to amaze me. The more I learn, the more J realize how little I know.
