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[baileyaa]

I will be constructing my second fish room soon. The other room has africans and assorted freshwater. In this one, i will be using it for quarantine for newly collected saltwater fish. Total amount of water is 400 gallons, live rock, and a decent protein skimmer. Should i throw in a UV sterilizer? Or would be overkill?
Thanks

 

[sepulatian]

You are having a 400 gallon tank just for newly caught? By all means, throw on a UV or two. UV's are certainly great for prevention. Please understand that they will not work in the event of an outbreak, but for the stray parasites that come along on new fish, they are great.
BTW, I don't consider much overkill. Post some pics when this is running.

 

[hammerhed7]

+1 it's no life saver, but not a waste of time either

 

[baileyaa]

its going to be a 400 gallon system. ten 10's, 5 20's, 2 55's and sump. i have never used a UV, but from what i remember was that it mostly kill algae. the purpose of the system would be to quaritine newly caught fish, before putting in customers tanks. If quarintine time is about a month, would i be throwing off the quaritine cycle by adding new arrivals? would the UV counteract this?

 

[sharkbait9]

+1 No such thing as over kill filtration and preventative health measures.

 

[florida joe]

Originally Posted by BaileyAA
http:///forum/post/2858059
its going to be a 400 gallon system. ten 10's, 5 20's, 2 55's and sump. i have never used a UV, but from what i remember was that it mostly kill algae. the purpose of the system would be to quaritine newly caught fish, before putting in customers tanks. If quarintine time is about a month, would i be throwing off the quaritine cycle by adding new arrivals? would the UV counteract this?
I think I am missing something here going by your numbers your sump will be 90 gallons, exactly what are you trying to achieve with the multiple tanks

 

[mboswell1982]

if im guessing right joe, its a multiple quarantine tank set up for a fish store

 

[florida joe]

Originally Posted by mboswell1982
http:///forum/post/2858549
if im guessing right joe, its a multiple quarantine tank set up for a fish store
Most fish stores stay in business by rapid turn over that’s why they don’t quarantine. I still don’t understand the 90g sump also each tank has to have its own dedicated filter and heating unless they are going to be interconnected but then there is the risk of cross contamination also the initial fish put in each tank will start the quarantine but if a new fish is added at any time before all the previous fish get sold the quarantine will have to start again not to mention if one of the fish comes down with a disease

 

[mboswell1982]

so they're gonna need separate filtration for each tank then is what ur saying? right? and i think they're planning on catching their own fish, cause she specifically mentions newly caught fish
hey joe, check out my thread in fish discussion entitled ugh an tell me what u think of those corals i listed on the last post LOL
its called ugh cause we got some bad news last night

oh, an sorry for hijacking your thread

 

[baileyaa]

hope this clears it up for you:
i have a install and maintenance buisness that's slowly getting started. I use to order my fish for customers through a distributor. They went belly up. I just started collecting (catching) on my own and so far its been keeping me pretty even with costs. I've been using 8 10 gallon tanks for quarintine. Those tanks were all sperate. I want to make One system that will be used for quaritine. I can't and don't want to quaritine at a customers house, hence the reason for the fish room. And I'm a dude.

 

[florida joe]

With all do respect your using 17 interconnected tanks for quarantine IMO is just not practical. Assuming you stock all the tanks at the same time and somewhere along the quarantine time line one of your fish shows signs of disease you have to keep them all quarantined do to the chance of cross contamination of tanks. now if we take ick for example it may not start to infect all the fish at the same time so you run the great risk of perpetuation of the infestation over and over again

 

[baileyaa]

yeah i totally understand that. but at a fish store wouldn't they run one syatem too. i guess my question would really be; what would be the best way to take fish from the ocean, quarintine them, the put into customer's tanks. i thought of having one system because of cost reasons. but if i did 10 55 gallon tanks would that be better?

 

[florida joe]

Yes fish stores run one system they also weather they tell you or not run copper in most cases or run uv portable sterilizers which they move from tank to tank. Again they look to turn over their stock very quickly to make money and why it is paramount to quarantine all livestock purchased. I will give your particular case some thought and get back to you if you like

 

[b0b82]

BaileyAA I use to catch my own fish here in South Florida and I would keep them in separate tanks like a 10 gal or coolers. Anything that will hold water. You need to keep everything separate because you might need to only treat one or two fish. If you connect it all together then you want to use a brood spectrum kill every thing type of med. I however don't like to treat a fish that dos not need it. Most of the fish that you catch can be cured with a fresh water dip if you do it right. I use to run a UV on my main tank but it was a waste of time and power, as well as heat IMO. I now only UV my new saltwater that I get from the Ocean before it goes in any of my tanks. So where do you catch your fish? I know of some great places here in Florida.