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I just found the corpse of the emerald crab I had in QT (pretty sure it's not just molt). I just did a 30% water change, and he looked great before that, so I assume it's related.
Before him, I had 5 of 6 astrea snails die less than a week in to QT. I also have 10 tiny hermits, but I see at least one empty shell. The QT was just set up. I insta-cycled it with media from my DT, but had 0.25ppm ammonia at one point, which I addressed with some frequent water changes.
I'm about 3 weeks in to this round of QT. 9 coral frags seem fine so far, except for a kenya tree that hasn't fully extended polyps since the last water change.
Before this, I've also lost two wrasses in QT, probably due to the prophylactic cu treatment (yes, I did a half dost to start, but should have gone slower, especially with wrasses. And yes, I completely washed everything thoroughly and tested for Cu before switching to inverts). I'll never treat healthy fish again.
When I first got my DT, I just dumped stuff in (after a proper cycle, of course). Fish, snails, hermits, palys, coraline algae. It's all doing great except for one firefish I lost on vacation because he was too timid to eat without target feeding.
I'm about to agree with the folks who say QT kills more pets than disease. What the heck am I doing wrong? For the QT advocates, do you keep a fully cycled and we'll maintained QT tank online all the time. Or two (one for fish, one for inverts)?
Before him, I had 5 of 6 astrea snails die less than a week in to QT. I also have 10 tiny hermits, but I see at least one empty shell. The QT was just set up. I insta-cycled it with media from my DT, but had 0.25ppm ammonia at one point, which I addressed with some frequent water changes.
I'm about 3 weeks in to this round of QT. 9 coral frags seem fine so far, except for a kenya tree that hasn't fully extended polyps since the last water change.
Before this, I've also lost two wrasses in QT, probably due to the prophylactic cu treatment (yes, I did a half dost to start, but should have gone slower, especially with wrasses. And yes, I completely washed everything thoroughly and tested for Cu before switching to inverts). I'll never treat healthy fish again.
When I first got my DT, I just dumped stuff in (after a proper cycle, of course). Fish, snails, hermits, palys, coraline algae. It's all doing great except for one firefish I lost on vacation because he was too timid to eat without target feeding.
I'm about to agree with the folks who say QT kills more pets than disease. What the heck am I doing wrong? For the QT advocates, do you keep a fully cycled and we'll maintained QT tank online all the time. Or two (one for fish, one for inverts)?