QT for inverts

[00Barracuda00]

Any help for a super curious newbie, still in the planning stages?

Generally speaking, how do you quaranting your CuC? If they all arrive in an order at once, do you place them in QT together? Should you even order them all at once, or spread them out on a rotation after adding the previous orders to the DT?

 

[Rctreece]

Good question. I also, being a newbie, have not quarantined my inverts.

 

[joec]

Any help for a super curious newbie, still in the planning stages?

Generally speaking, how do you quaranting your CuC? If they all arrive in an order at once, do you place them in QT together? Should you even order them all at once, or spread them out on a rotation after adding the previous orders to the DT?

I would say a little at a time, as needed.

Be careful with Shrimp, they are sensitive in a small tank. I now QT them by themselves. I put a fire shrimp in with several Trochus snails the first time at it, one of the Trochus died overnight, I had a slight nitrite spike and the Shrimp was easily damaged and didn't make it

 

[00Barracuda00]

Were you adding them as an initial CuC or was your tank established? The second part to my question is, if you DO spread out your introduction.... How do you keep them from getting harassed when you introduce them to the tank?

I imagine a shrimp, of any kind, just dropped into a saltwater tank doesn't fair too well.

 

[joec]

It was initial Cuc. Inverts should be slowly drip acclimated for at at least an hour, they are more sensitive than fish