Originally Posted by Beckzilla
OK, I have done some research and want your opinions on how and what to QT. I have a 20 gallon tank that I am converting to QT. It was a QT before until a few weeks ago when I tore down my FW tank and made it FW until I could give my FW fish away. I had sand and a little live rock in it when it was a QT. My question now is can I take water out of the display now and put into QT and use the QT now? Do I need sand and LR in the QT? Do I have to cycle even though I am using existing SW water? Do I need to QT every living thing in the display? How do I go about treating my clam, feather dusters and corals. What about the LR. Am planning on doing Hypo ASAP and want to do it right. Also now have (2) 32 gallon Rubbermaid trash cans (brand new). Is Stop Parasite the best to use as a supplement killer or is there something better?
Thanks
You do not want any sand or lr in the qt when you perform hypo. You can add some while there is nothing in there to aid in the cycle, but before you begin to lower the salinity it has to come back out. The rock can go back into your display even though it will have ich on it (if the fish go into the qt while the rock is still in there) because your display is full of ich anyway. You only need to treat your fish. Leave your display fishless for 6 weeks. This will kill off the ich in the display because they will have no fish to host. Also, to help with the cycle you can use one of your filter pads from your DT. You will still have a small cycle but it won't be as bad if you can get as much bacteria as possible from the DT over to the QT. As far as other meds, I like Stop Parasites. There are other meds out there. Remember that the Stop Parasites will NOT kill the ich, but it will help get some of it off of your fish. I am recomending this only because some of your fish are infested pretty badly.
