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There is a lot of really good material (videos, articles, etc.) on how to start and have high chance of success with a reef tank. Separately, there is plenty of content regarding putting fish and corals into quarantine tanks prior to introducing them into one's display tank.
I'm trying to put two and two together based on information that is not usually packaged together. It seems to me, if you want to "do it right", anybody who wants to start a reef tank really needs to think in terms of keeping three tanks - the main display tank, a fish quarantine tank and a coral quarantine tank. (I'm guessing the fish quarantine tank and the coral quarantine tank need to be different as some of the treatments you give fish are incompatible with corals.). And for the quarantine tanks to properly support the animals you put in there, the tanks need to be set up like display tanks in important ways (needs bio filtration, needs to go through the cycle process, need to keep important parameters stable, need to have requisite equipment such as lighting for corals). Some of the quarantine procedures seem to include protracted stays in the quarantine tanks so buckets or bins hastily set up a day prior to the arrival of new animals won't seem to cut it.
Given that a new display tank will take months if not a year or two to fully stock, a hobbyist will then need to keep quarantine tanks running properly and continuously for as long as the hobbyist still has intention on adding new inhabitants to the display tank. And this will be true even if the hobbyist had only intended to keep just one nano tank.
Thoughts?
I'm trying to put two and two together based on information that is not usually packaged together. It seems to me, if you want to "do it right", anybody who wants to start a reef tank really needs to think in terms of keeping three tanks - the main display tank, a fish quarantine tank and a coral quarantine tank. (I'm guessing the fish quarantine tank and the coral quarantine tank need to be different as some of the treatments you give fish are incompatible with corals.). And for the quarantine tanks to properly support the animals you put in there, the tanks need to be set up like display tanks in important ways (needs bio filtration, needs to go through the cycle process, need to keep important parameters stable, need to have requisite equipment such as lighting for corals). Some of the quarantine procedures seem to include protracted stays in the quarantine tanks so buckets or bins hastily set up a day prior to the arrival of new animals won't seem to cut it.
Given that a new display tank will take months if not a year or two to fully stock, a hobbyist will then need to keep quarantine tanks running properly and continuously for as long as the hobbyist still has intention on adding new inhabitants to the display tank. And this will be true even if the hobbyist had only intended to keep just one nano tank.
Thoughts?