Course of action after Fallow

[qstorm]

So I am coming up the the 76 days, but I am doing 80 days just to be on the safe side of having no fish in the tank. I have about 10 coral frags that really haven't taken off and about 15 huge snails, 2 large emerald crabs, 1 huge hermit crab whom is a murderer and some other clean up crew which I can catch.
I have a 220 gallon DT and I am about to replenish my LS. my quarantine tank is not big enough to hold the new additions. So I am thinking remove the corals and cuc and treat medicate the new crew in the DT... The tank has been treated with pretty much everything except copper since my out break.
My cuc, shrimp and coral are ok.
My question is if I medicate the new fish in the display is that a good idea? When and how to add the corals and cuc back without causing harm.

My reason for this approach other than not having a huge quarantine tank is, this time around I am getting all my fish from one LFS that uses copper and it minimizes my chance of an out break.

Thoughts, suggestion please


Thanks

 

[Old Fritz]

I wouldnt treat in dt becayse yoully pretty much have to make it into a temporary dt. By that i mean you will pretty much have to take everything out because a lot of substrate and live rock absorb copper. When it absorbs the copper it makes reaching and maintaining therapeutic levels difficult, but also when you remove copper from your system, the copper in your substrate and lr will seep into the water. Which may impact your invertebrates. I have noticed hermit crabs and to an extent cleaner shrimp can be a little more resilient to copper in my experience. Because when we treat our dt at our store we occasionally miss a couple hermit crabs or a small cleaner shrimp. However i wouldnt chance it.

So what you could do is throw all your live rock and inverts in your current qt tank and move all your fish into the dt tank and just make that a temp qt to treat with copper

 

[qstorm]

I wouldnt treat in dt becayse yoully pretty much have to make it into a temporary dt. By that i mean you will pretty much have to take everything out because a lot of substrate and live rock absorb copper. When it absorbs the copper it makes reaching and maintaining therapeutic levels difficult, but also when you remove copper from your system, the copper in your substrate and lr will seep into the water. Which may impact your invertebrates. I have noticed hermit crabs and to an extent cleaner shrimp can be a little more resilient to copper in my experience. Because when we treat our dt at our store we occasionally miss a couple hermit crabs or a small cleaner shrimp. However i wouldnt chance it.

So what you could do is throw all your live rock and inverts in your current qt tank and move all your fish into the dt tank and just make that a temp qt to treat with copper

Sounds good, I don't think I can afford to destroy my aquascape again. I think I will just get a huge plastic container and treat them in that ...seeing that the LFS treats them with copper and will keep them for a week, that should give me a start