Quarantine?

sparry67

Member
I have been reading this forum for MONTHS now and ready to dive in! (ALOT of patience YES!) I have my quarantine tank (30 gallon) set up and PERFECT #'s now! I ordered i watchmen shrimp goby, and 1 bicolor angel and misc crabs and shrimp also 1 Ricordea Blue 1 Polypblue and 10 zooanthoids. My question is DO I HAVE TO QT THE ZOOS, MUSHROOM, AND CRABS ETC? AS I have my qt tank down to 1.017 sp gravity which I read is a good way to QT new fish? Please HELP as order is in and In feel I'm just ready for some action now? (6 months into this now!) THANKS to anyone who can advise me!!!
 

flower

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Originally Posted by sparry67 http:///t/392755/quarantine#post_3489515
I have been reading this forum for MONTHS now and ready to dive in! (ALOT of patience YES!) I have my quarantine tank (30 gallon) set up and PERFECT #'s now! I ordered i watchmen shrimp goby, and 1 bicolor angel and misc crabs and shrimp also 1 Ricordea Blue 1 Polypblue and 10 zooanthoids. My question is DO I HAVE TO QT THE ZOOS, MUSHROOM, AND CRABS ETC? AS I have my qt tank down to 1.017 sp gravity which I read is a good way to QT new fish? Please HELP as order is in and In feel I'm just ready for some action now? (6 months into this now!) THANKS to anyone who can advise me!!!
Hi,
I never quarantined inverts or corals...some do...I didn't. A coral dip should take care of any unwanteds found in the zoa.
 

sparry67

Member
Thanks sooo much for the reply! Here i've been studying for soo long and so hard and just want to BAIL sometimes! I just now realized I ordered a bi-color angel (for qt of course) but DUH I already have a flameangel in my display tank? WTHell how is ths gonna work? I could sell the new angel I guess or should I try? I have a 75 gallon display tank!
 

flower

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Originally Posted by sparry67 http:///t/392755/quarantine#post_3489523
Thanks sooo much for the reply! Here i've been studying for soo long and so hard and just want to BAIL sometimes! I just now realized I ordered a bi-color angel (for qt of course) but DUH I already have a flameangel in my display tank? WTHell how is ths gonna work? I could sell the new angel I guess or should I try? I have a 75 gallon display tank!
You must decide which angelfish you want because the two will not get along at all, they will fight to the death and while one is killed, the other will be injured and you may land up loosing both as a result, so absolutly do not even try to add a second angelfish. The first has already established his territory.
whatever fish you add dictates what fish you can add later, so it's important to decide what you want in the tank as a stock list, then we can help you with what should be added next and what should be added last. Unlike freshwater fish you can't just see a pretty fish in the store and bring it home.
What you need is a good critter book to help you decide what you want to stock your tank with...I suggest getting the following. It saved me a ton of money on livestock.
A page from the invert book so you can see the info it offers:


This book is a must have IMO

Here is a page from that book.
 

sparry67

Member
Thanks for your help! What is your opinion on bringing the QT tank down to 1.016 salinity for the 1st 2 weeks? Also will a long nosed butterfly be ok in a 30 gallon QT tank? Thanks again!
 
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