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What I'm curious about is if your quarantine all new fish, and you leave that live rock in your QT tank comma then what's the problem with using live rock
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Needs to be BRAND NEW knee highs (very important).
Exactly, I have 5 qt tanks right now. They all have a thin layer of rock substrate, live rock chunks, ceramic, filter elements and two have skimmers, I also rotate a diatom filter between them. My thing is the fish in qt are in most cases are to big for their tanks and to many too. Out of those 5 tanks two are with copper and three have chloroquine phosphate with other meds introduced when needed. 4 of these tanks will never have corals or inverters. The tanks with copper were a little trouble some at first, but now are stable as a rock. With all my rock and such I have to do way less water changes on the tanks that aren't overloaded. The tanks with cp, who knows what they are doing? If those fish show signs of disease I add a touch more until it goes away and if they show signs of stress like not eating I start doing water changes. Water changes are very exspensive and time consuming so I believe rock is the way to go.What I'm curious about is if your quarantine all new fish, and you leave that live rock in your QT tank comma then what's the problem with using live rock
Believe me I understand, what I don't understand is the sponge is not big enough or porous enough to hold enough bacteria for any thing bigger than a ten gallon. He has a thirty. I have to do daily water changes on ten gallons and I'm using rock and ceramic with no copper and only one or two fish per tank. I almost makes more sense to me to use a filter with a bio wheel if you can't use rock.
Understood. I still seed all my tanks, because copper kills bacteria too. Sponge to me is a filter. To me a sponge soaks up stuff. The stuff we are calling sponge is a filter element. When it clogs with fish food you have to wash it, when you wash it the bacteria goes too. So why have it other than to clean. I can see using stacks of them, one for cleaning and others for bacteria propitiation. To me filters with a bio wheel would be a better choice.Bacteria in a bottle will seed the sponge.
Understood. I still seed all my tanks, because copper kills bacteria too. Sponge to me is a filter. To me a sponge soaks up stuff. The stuff we are calling sponge is a filter element. When it clogs with fish food you have to wash it, when you wash it the bacteria goes too. So why have it other than the clean. I can see using stacks of them, one for cleaning and others for bacteria propitiation. To me filters with a bio wheel would be a better choice.
What I'm curious about is if your quarantine all new fish, and you leave that live rock in your QT tank comma then what's the problem with using live rock
Then what do you do to give the fish hiding places so they don't stress out?
Pvc fittings, but I have read fish hate white things and they are not natural. We have plastic plants like for fresh water tanks and they seem to like them. I'm sure I'm wrong again...Then what do you do to give the fish hiding places so they don't stress out?
I have read fish hate white things
I think it came from Paul,b. It's a artical he linked, on one of his many threads. It may have been on the other site though.Do you have a link to where you read this?
I think it came from Paul,b.
Not disputing that either. We have little pieces of pvc, fake plants and rock.Well that explains that. Sweetie, QT is not meant to be comfortable, pretty or a permanent home for these fish. It is simply a means to make sure the fish are healthy before being introduced to the main display. If you think the fish will not like the white pvc then you can always purchase Schedule 80 pvc which is gray. I use PVC at the store in every single fish tank. I've never had a fish that was afraid of the PVC or appeared to not like it. PVC has never negatively effected a fish in QT unless it had a sharp edge and the fish got a scrape.
^^this just made my day. Does it matter what color knee-hi's?
My wife said "n u d e" color.
Not disputing that either. We have little pieces of pvc, fake plants and rock.