quarantine tank?

[fishy987]

just wondering how many people actually have a quarantine tank and tips for setting one up

 

[carrie1429]

I used to have one, but more fish died in the quarantine than my main tank (water toxin), so after I cleaned it out I just took it down. If you want to use the quarantine for a hospital tank as well then you don't use any LR or LS, well you could use some LS but the medications would kill it. Anyway my basic setup had no LR or LS, just a hang on filter (also the tank size was a 26 gallon), pieces of lava rock for the fish, a lot of people have PVC pipe too and they paint the bottom of the tank so there is no reflection. Thats pretty much all there is to setting up one, pretty easy.

 

[musipilot]

Best thing we ever set up. We have a 15 gallon tall quarantine tank, with just a little live rock and a DSB. We also use an Aquaclear 200 on it for water movement and mechanical filtration. When we get a new fish, he goes in there (the SG is at 1.017). We then lower the salinity to 1.009 to remove any possible ich. After 30 days, the salinity goes back up to 1.023 at which point we do water changes into the Q tank from the tank the fish is going into. This helps get them used to the show tank water. After a week or so, into the main tank they go. Never had an ich breakout or lost a fish since we started doing this.

 

[fshhub]

we have one that has never been used, set it up about 8 months ago and have not added anything to the tank yet, but we keep it ready and running, just in case for hospitalization, IMO one of the best things you can use, we just got lucky with our fishes but i do know of many others who did not, this is what made us decide ot have one
and as mentioned all you need is a basic filter lighting adn some shelter for the fish to hide in and bacteria to thrive on, even just room lighting is suficient really