Nothing in reefing is an exact science is probably the second biggest thing I've learned after the solution to pollution. I was targeting adding the 3 at once, but my concern is the impact on the bioload of adding these 3 big suckers all at once to my almost 3 month old 155 gal tank which is currently FOWLR. I'm going to wait a couple more months probably until I move over the corals.
The tank with fish does NOT have corals yet. Just 2" sand and 3 rock structures I built. The corals are still sitting Fallow in the old tank since i had the infection roll in that took out almost all my fish. It's been fallow since May 21st. I'm taking extra care to make sure the new tank is 100% stable and dialed in before moving the corals over. Also, I've been lights out and planned on remaining lights out for 4 months per a BRS investigation.
Hi, I prefer to use a quarantine tank of at least 10 gallons for the smaller fish or a 20 gallon tank if you want to quarantine them in one group. The tank must have an operating biofilter. I use a sponge filter or other filter media from a well established tank.
Thanks for the reply! @Jay Hemdal I will follow your advice, I immediately get a bigger QT and filter with cycled sponges.
Not without much difficulty. I'm used to using copper pentahydrate, so you would need to know how to convert for the anhydrous form. Then, you need critic acid to help keep the copper in solution. Finally, this ionic copper is much more toxic than the amine-based copper products we now use. If you want to try it, I dug up my old formulary and found my recipe (from 20+ years ago!). It actually contains the value for anhydrous copper - Mix 1.36 grams of CuSO4 and 0.91 grams of citric acid into 100 ml of distilled water. Each milliliter of this stock solution will treat about 7 US gallons. However, you need to have an accurate low range copper test and you need to ramp up the copper slowly over two days. The copper will adsorb onto surfaces as you add it, so the dose will drop, requiring daily testing and redosing.
I don’t see any problem with that. I routinely hold fish in a QT after treatments are done, to grow them larger, wait for a DT to open, etc.
What species of clown? I stopped getting wild ocellaris or percula clowns due to issues with Brooklynella. The one thing our quarantine doesn’t handle well is Brook. That was a conscious decision as the process is already quite complicated and Brook is rare unless you get poor quality wild clowns of those two species.
I don't know exactly how long Brooklynella can fester in wild caught clowns before breaking into an infection. Certainly marine ich can hang on for months before becoming an active infection. Brooklynella has direct development with no resting phase, so it should be a shorter time,. but I would still treat the fish for velvet/ich and flukes. That puts you are 45 days, and that should be long enough to screen for brook.
