Originally Posted by
alfieferenzo84
http:///forum/post/2512244
i had 3 disagree would you like to explain please?
I never have luck with qt, I have to change 5 gallons of water everyday to keep everything at like 50 witch is no good for the fish, Also i dont have the room nor the time so i want to make sure if i go though all this salt and time is it really worth it?
I have been doing this for a long time and never had a problem really intil we got the puffer that thing would get ick every 3mo for the 2yrs we had him, Now that i got rid of him we got a hippo tang to start figured that would be the first to get ick if it was a problem, waited about a wk with no sign of ick then bought 2 clown fish and bam 3 days later ick showed up on the hippo, The tanks where in qt copper for over a mo at the lfs that you can really trust! Belive it or not they mark the dates on the tank and treat all fish with copper! Really great store!
So i dont know if the clowns had it or the hippo just starting showing? I have been feeding heavy and added fresh garlic but i still see about 2=5 spot each day so i dont know what to do!
Part of me wants to go buy every fish i want and qt them in the main tank after removing everything and make it a 1x thing and with 55 gallons im sure the water would be more stable the other wants to give up and a part of me wants to just keep feeding and see where it goes but i have a feeling that it will just come back when i get another fish!
I cant beleive all of you qt fish for 6wks how do you afford the salt? Do i do somthing wrong? I have a 10 gallon with 2 power filters and put 1-2 rocks into the tank, i use my tank water and keep chaning it with fresh with a little salt for a buffer and the ammonia, nitries, and ever nitrates get out of control!!!! im talking like 3-4 shades down the test!
I guess i am looking for feedback now on qt tanks, I just hate to do this and 3mo later i get ick again for no reason, I understand everything will need to be qt even crabs ect but i just have a feeling ick will never go away period?
I kept many tank and fish and never had problems before over the past 6yrs intil i got that puffer!
Oh yea my tank is a 55 gallon over 100lb of rock, 4 power heads flipping the water about 18x a hr, remora pro skimmer mag 3, 1-2 inches of sand, Some crabs and snails, Cleaner shrimp, 2x peperments, 3 starfish, brittle, serpent, chip, Also i have 2 mushrooms, and some green star grass i forget the name i just call it grass lol, But my chip star keeps eatting it he needs to go!~
Should i start a new post somwhere else to get help on a qt or is this okay?
To touch on a few of your concerns:
If a QT is cycled properly you shouldn't have too many issues with parameters. It's not really a lot of salt that you're going through considering the QT doesn't need to be the same size as your DT. Besides, if you save your fish from ich, it is worth it in the end.
When you initially get ich and QT all the fish, yes you'll have an extreme bioload and may need to keep an eye on the levels. But, if you QT all incoming fish, you should only have one fish in the QT at a time, then when it's done with QT and added to the DT, then you can get another fish and QT that one, and so on. Doing this prevents ich from even getting into your system.
Don't QT in your main tank, if you have inverts, because getting them out and dealing with ich in that way is rather painful and you'll likely have more trouble than it's worth. The live sand and/or live rock won't survive through that process and though you can get your live rock out and put that into another tank, your sand is a different story. The other thing there is that you can't use copper in your DT, otherwise you'll never be able to keep inverts in there again.
If you QT everything, properly, you won't have to deal with it in 3 months again. Best of luck!
