Info on Quarantine Tank (QT) or Hospital Tank:

[wannabeeareefkeeper]

<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">My Preliminary Stage of Setup of Hospital Tank --- [20 gallon long]</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Idea Hospital/Quarantine tank should have glass bottom and minimal obstructions? Your thoughts?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">How long a new friend should be quarantined?</span></span>

<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Should I medicate new friend(s) upon first arrival to quarantined tank, i.e. preventative medicine? How long should I medicate?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Do you medicate new soft and hard corals upon arrival to quarantine tank? Can corals carry in diseases that will affect fish, i.e. ich, tail rot?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">I would like to hear from your personal experiences: What to do in QT tank? What not to do in QT tank? Explain in short detail what happened in your experience and what you did to overcome pitfall of initial setup of your hospital tank. How long have you been in this hobby will also be helpful.</span></span>

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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Please respond with you :doh: moment to enlighten the rest of us. Maybe even some :wow2: moments that allowed your to overcome obstacles while medicating/quarantine your new arrivals.</span></span>

 

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[jennm]

http://www.imagine-ocean.com/best-practices-quarantine-procedures-obtaining-new-fish-specimens/">Here</a> is an article I wrote on fish quarantine.

If you're going to quarantine corals, that would be a separate system with adequate light and such. Other than using coral dips (not in the tank, but as a bath before introduction to a tank), there isn't really a medication you can use in a QT for corals, and most of the meds for fish that you'd use in a QT are detrimental to corals, hence separate systems would be necessary.

IMO it's more important to quarantine fish versus corals, but it's a good practice to give new coral acquisitions a disinfecting dip and a thorough visual inspection before adding them to the display, to reduce the risk of introducing infections or pests.

Fish can carry or contract a myriad of ills, and if you pre-treat for one, but they develop another, you can't necessarily mix medications, so it's usually best to take a wait and see approach and treat what comes up.

Jenn