I am pondering setting up a permanent QT tank with a hardy damsel or other fish in it that will keep the biologic filtration going when there are no other residents. I am not looking for thing of beauty but rather a way to actually perform a consistent QT process.
I don't add fish often, but when I do I tend to do so more or less at the spur of the moment. Setting up a tank to QT the new addition spontaneously tends not to happen. I find the same circumstance to be even more trouble when an emergency arises, as even with a bacterial additive the inevitable ammonia spike is the death knell for the poor devil who goes in.
I was thinking a 29g tank, bare bottom, with a couple pieces of live rock in it, and the requisite aeration, heat, and filtration. My questions are:
1. What is a good inhabitant that will be able to soldier through the occasional prophylactic copper regimen (multiple times spread out over perhaps months). It also can't be a bully that is going to go bananas with every new arrival.
2. Should I match the general parameters of my DT, or is there value in running a higher or lower salinity/alk/etc?
Thanks!
I don't add fish often, but when I do I tend to do so more or less at the spur of the moment. Setting up a tank to QT the new addition spontaneously tends not to happen. I find the same circumstance to be even more trouble when an emergency arises, as even with a bacterial additive the inevitable ammonia spike is the death knell for the poor devil who goes in.
I was thinking a 29g tank, bare bottom, with a couple pieces of live rock in it, and the requisite aeration, heat, and filtration. My questions are:
1. What is a good inhabitant that will be able to soldier through the occasional prophylactic copper regimen (multiple times spread out over perhaps months). It also can't be a bully that is going to go bananas with every new arrival.
2. Should I match the general parameters of my DT, or is there value in running a higher or lower salinity/alk/etc?
Thanks!