I am finally convinced setting a quarantine tank for new additions will help in the longevity and health of all my fish, but mainly I'm tired of losing wrasse's. I am basically follow @Humblefish and his setup process, but figured I would post to see if anyone has other experiences or suggestions, so here we go...
Here's the setup:
Week 1 - Get fish (mainly leopard) eating frozen foods. I purchased live brine to start, and proud to say all fish are eating frozen as of day three. Daily 20% wc to help with Ammonia
Week 2 - 50% wc, Begin R1 Prazi for the next 7 days
Week 3 - 50% wc, add carbon and daily 20% wc for a couple days to remove any additional prazi, start adding copper power
week 4 - get copper power up to therapeutic level of 2.5
weeks 5, 6, 7, 8 - copper (30 days) - potential wc's during this time, will monitor using seachem badge and test kits
week 9 - 50% wc, add carbon to remove remaining copper, start r2 prazi
Week 10 - Prazi for remaining seven days, 50% wc, add carbon, and monitor for remaining week
Week 11 - move to DT if all goes well
Here's the setup:
- 20G Long
- TIdal 35 HOB filter w/ matrix seeded from DT
- Power Head
- Sand and a few pieces of live rubble rock
- seachem badge
- some PVC
- seachem stability
- Yellow Corris
- blue star leopard
- Lubbock
Week 1 - Get fish (mainly leopard) eating frozen foods. I purchased live brine to start, and proud to say all fish are eating frozen as of day three. Daily 20% wc to help with Ammonia
Week 2 - 50% wc, Begin R1 Prazi for the next 7 days
Week 3 - 50% wc, add carbon and daily 20% wc for a couple days to remove any additional prazi, start adding copper power
week 4 - get copper power up to therapeutic level of 2.5
weeks 5, 6, 7, 8 - copper (30 days) - potential wc's during this time, will monitor using seachem badge and test kits
week 9 - 50% wc, add carbon to remove remaining copper, start r2 prazi
Week 10 - Prazi for remaining seven days, 50% wc, add carbon, and monitor for remaining week
Week 11 - move to DT if all goes well