Corals Snails and Fish in QT

[FirstContact]

Well I finally set up QT tanks for coral and fish last year. I have coral and snails in one and a copperband butterfly and red coris wrasse in the other.

For the coral, I followed Michael Paletta's recommendations for treatment before putting in QT, and recently added some snails to the same tank. Is it bad to mix frags with other inverts?

Do I want to treat the water in the fish QT or the fish food with chemicals? Tank transfer method? Or just observe and dump in 30-45 days?

 

[Big G]

Here's two links with guidelines for both the fish qt and the coral/invert qt. And I use both and have been successful. Hope this helps:

Here's Meredith's coral/invert guideline: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-quarantine-coral-and-inverts.288859/#post-3515086

Here's Humblefish's guideline for fish: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-quarantine.189815/#post-2177961

 

[FirstContact]

Thanks. That helps a lot.

 

[FirstContact]

Quarantining is tough to do right. I have a DT and two QTs. I only have one set of tools and one pair of hands. Making sure that nothing touches another tank after it has been in one tank is not really that easy.

 

[Big G]

Tools and equipment cleaning: Wash with bleach (to eliminate biofilms) , rinse, rinse, dry; Wash with vinegar (to precipitate copper into a harmless form), rinse, rinse, dry; Wash with hydrogen peroxide (to destroy any carbon based materials left behind-used in many labs), rinse, rinse, dry. Done. Whew! lots of work to keep your fish/tank disease free as possible.