easy quarantine tank ?

Polyp Punk · Mar 10, 2021

hey reefers,
so i am starting a 15g tank and i was wondering if there are any easy ways to quarantine new fish these days? Do you still have to create an entire other tank for this or are there some new products out there that make quarantine easier like a hang on the back quarantine for example. I found something on marine depot that might work its called the CPR First AID isolation/quarantine tank. it hangs on the back of your tank and holds whatever fish you are getting ready to introduce...what do you guys think ? how do you guys quarantine these days ?

davidcalgary29 · Mar 10, 2021

Salt_Life said:
hey reefers,
so i am starting a 15g tank and i was wondering if there are any easy ways to quarantine new fish these days? Do you still have to create an entire other tank for this or are there some new products out there that make quarantine easier like a hang on the back quarantine for example. I found something on marine depot that might work its called the CPR First AID isolation/quarantine tank. it hangs on the back of your tank and holds whatever fish you are getting ready to introduce...what do you guys think ? how do you guys quarantine these days ?

No, I wouldn't use that for quarantine at all. You really do have to keep your QT completely separate from your DT if quarantine is to work at all.

I think it's best if you keep fish in buckets for a bare-bottom tank (with appropriate life support) during quarantine. I put my corals and inverts into jar builds where they can look pretty while I monitor them closely for introduced pests (while waiting out disease/parasite latency periods).

mdb_talon · Mar 10, 2021

For less than the price of that you can get a 10g kit from walmart that includes tank and light(not really necessary but makes monitoring fish easier). Add a cheap heater and you have a QT tank of reasonable size. That first aid thing you had may be fine for acclimating/etc, but far from sufficient for use as a longer term QT tank.