Advice needed

Duke4Life · Oct 16, 2016

I don't like to take many chances as I've seen and experienced the result first hand myself. With my move over I now have the upstairs to our new house. With my DT downstairs I'm going to do a Mantis in my 20g upstairs and qt all fish as well.

The picture below shows the 20g on top with a 10g hospital/observation tank below (I use plastic tubs for ttm). Both will have basic hob filtration. Good idea or 2 risky due to stuff going airborne?

Diesel · Oct 16, 2016

Airborne is a small risk and I would take that.
If you look at the setup how Vargas qt their fish there was more risk of airborne stuff and those are the pro's.
They QT fish with a high success rate.

melypr1985 · Oct 16, 2016

If your able to, and have the room, then I would separate them the full 10 feet. Sorry to disagree Diesel my friend, but I'm always the play it safe kinda girl.

Otherwise Duke, sounds good.

jsker · Oct 16, 2016

I agree with diesel, you will be fine. I would say you would have more issues with cleaning chemicals getting in the system then airborn fish disease.
The issue I see is if one tanks water get into the other and that is were one would get a disease transmission.

Diesel · Oct 16, 2016

Oh boy we got a tie here

I have to honest as I have no first hand experience but hanging with Tony Vargas for a weekend kinda gave me more inside info.
Of course Philip I believe you already know what you will do but just wanted a little more secured info as backup.
I would say knock yourself out for what YOU had in mind.

cmcoker · Oct 17, 2016

So the mantis is going to be species tank, no fish?
With fish qt underneath and display tank downstairs..
If I understand correctly, I think that's fine. And I have a low risk threshold myself.
Things we quarantine the fish for won't affect your mantis to my knowledge...

melypr1985 · Oct 17, 2016

jsker said:
The issue I see is if one tanks water get into the other and that is were one would get a disease transmission.

^^agree
OK. I'll try one last time

Remember when I say this that I have my hands (and nets) in tanks all day long at work. Drips happen and happen a lot. Drops of water can land in weird places. Having said that, if you must keep them on top of each other I would suggest having the hospital/observation tank up top and the QT on bottom. That way, if you drip some of the water from the top into the bottom, at least the fish should be clear of diseases.

cmcoker · Oct 17, 2016

melypr1985 said:
OK. I'll try one last time Remember when I say this that I have my hands (and nets) in tanks all day long at work. Drips happen and happen a lot. Drops of water can land in weird places. Having said that, if you must keep them on top of each other I would suggest having the hospital/observation tank up top and the QT on bottom. That way, if you drip some of the water from the top into the bottom, at least the fish should be clear of diseases.

I think he's doing a mantis tank on top, with hospital/qt underneath..