Invert/Coral Quarantine

[Dierker0000]

So I’m the past few months I’ve tried to get away without quarantine on my fish and long story short that did not work our very well. Lost a Tomini tang and royal gramma to velvet, and a clownfish to Brook. Now I’ve set up a quarantine tank and have an idea of what I am going to treat the fish with. I am thinking freshwater did then into QT, prazi pro if any signs of flukes, 14 days copper, then to a fallow tank for observation. Thoughts on this process? Anyways I was wondering what the deal is for quarantining inverts/coral. I’ve heard that if you don’t quarantine your inverts ect it would be as you do t quarantine at all. So I know you cannot use copper or any medications, so do you just leave them in Qt for a certain number of days to let the parasites ect starve off? I’d have to leave the tank fishless. And for coral just dip and wait also?? Thanks!

 

[Mjrenz]

A dip is a very good idea. Also parasites can't host on them but they can be carried in from the water they have in them and on them. This is a great place to start learning
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/thread-links-to-all-things-quarantine-fish-inverts.602917/
I'm sorry you had problems but I'm also glad you have decided to keep diseases out of your tank

 

[Gareth elliott]

What light is on there? Melyper(spelled wrong) has a great invert quarantine write up on here.

From advice i have received.

Use same light as your display, no second acclimation period.

20 gallon minimum for sps or tricky lps. For chemistry stability.

Grid the tank with egg crate, every piece of coral needs to reach 72 days, does not restart when you add a new one. If grid and write when you added can keep the qt going for all new additions and not have to try to remember when you added that frag.

 

[Dierker0000]

What light is on there? Melyper(spelled wrong) has a great invert quarantine write up on here.

From advice i have received.

Use same light as your display, no second acclimation period.

20 gallon minimum for sps or tricky lps. For chemistry stability.

Grid the tank with egg crate, every piece of coral needs to reach 72 days, does not restart when you add a new one. If grid and write when you added can keep the qt going for all new additions and not have to try to remember when you added that frag.

Sounds good. Probably won’t add to many corals. What about inverts?

 

[Wolf89]

every piece of coral needs to reach 72 days, does not restart when you add a new one. If

Does this apply to invertebrates to?

 

[bluprntguy]

Every piece of coral needs to reach 72 days, does not restart when you add a new one. If grid and write when you added can keep the qt going for all new additions and not have to try to remember when you added that frag.

This is fine. When you take out a piece of coral after 72 days, it won't have anything encysted on it. However, the tank may have free swimming parasites from another frag that maybe hasn't reached the 72 day mark. So, when you transfer the frags to your display tank you want to rinse them with display tank water to wash away any free swimmers that might be in the quarantine tank.

FWIW, I only do 45 days and I've kept difficult SPS in a 5 gallon Fluval SEA for that amount of time.

 

[Mjrenz]

Does this apply to invertebrates to?

This will answer your question
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/coral-invert-quarantine-time-frames.334584/

 

[Gareth elliott]

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/how-to-quarantine-coral-and-inverts.228/
Found the article i mentioned as well.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Does this apply to invertebrates to?

Inverts are difficult because they move. Dont add blue legs on the 3rd and again on the 29th impossible to know which ones were added at what time.

Also important to know coral parasite life cycles as well. If spot say aefw, base your dipping schedule for acros based on its life cycle for all acros in the qt. Most aefw are about 21 days from egg to hatch. So a dip every 7 days for 4 weeks and another few weeks of observation should cover you. I am unsure of others like red bugs or EEFW or nudis.