Quarantine Tank

[henryriesett]

I need some help with a quarantine tank. One of my fish I just bought I believe has an infection (will post about that later), and I do have a 15 gallon tank to set up. My questions are do I fill up that tank with some of dt water? Will the ammonia spike in that, or will I be fine because there is beneficial bacteria in dt? Do I only put visibly infected fish in qt, since I can’t treat dt from what I’ve read because of coral and inverts? Any help will be great, thank you.

 

[TX_REEF]

You should mix new salt water, get it circulating and up to temperature, add some flow/filtration (HOB should be fine) and some mature bio-media to handle the ammonia the fish produces while you treat it. Here's a good post to guide you: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/beginners-guide-to-acclimation-and-quarantine.304980/

 

[Uncle99]

Water contains little bacteria so not much ammonia help.
You can either put in a seasoned rock or use daily water changes to keep ammonia from increasing.

Treatment depends to a big extent on what it is your trying to correct.

You cannot treat the DT effectively, there are potions people use but no science showing effective.

My QT is super simple.

 

[henryriesett]

You should mix new salt water, get it circulating and up to temperature, add some flow/filtration (HOB should be fine) and some mature bio-media to handle the ammonia the fish produces while you treat it. Here's a good post to guide you: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/beginners-guide-to-acclimation-and-quarantine.304980/

So should I not put any water from dt into the qt?

 

[henryriesett]

Water contains little bacteria so not much ammonia help.
You can either put in a seasoned rock or use daily water changes to keep ammonia from increasing.

Treatment depends to a big extent on what it is your trying to correct.

You cannot treat the DT effectively, there are potions people use but no science showing effective.

My QT is super simple.

So should I not put any water from dt into the qt?

 

[GARRIGA]

I'm going to experiment with advanced oxidation process for QT as a means of converting ammonia to nitrates although no clue how that would work with medications therefore going to test that as well. Hope is to feed peroxide in such a fashion that all water constantly processed by UV-C thereby also sanitizing any free swimming pathogens.

Problem with QT and nitrification being where medication used that would wipe out the bacteria and constant water changes can be problematic and I believe further stressful. Plus I believe in heavy feeding to build up natural defenses and health which doesn't correlate with keeping a small footprint as to biomass waste.

Seachem Ammonia Alert helps keep an eye on toxic levels forming. WC likely the only proven solution but I'm hoping to solve that.

 

[Uncle99]

So should I not put any water from dt into the qt?

No water from DT.
That may infect the QT.
New water.