Hospital tank help

[Shergar11]

Alright folks I have just set up my old 30litre biorb to keep a clownfish with a dusty covering over it, I have used my existing tank water as I done a water change and used the water I removed to fill the hospital tank, I have a heater and a filter which has a couple of small pieces of live rock from my main tank in it and the air stone that came with the biorb all running. I am planning on testing water every night and changing water wen required which will probably be every couple of days.

Is this an ok way of setting up a hospital tank ?? This is my first sick fish and would hate to think I am making things worse for him in the hospital tank ??

My other fish which are a yellow tang, lyretail anthias and rusty angel fish all seem to be ok, thought I could see a few spots on the tail and gills of the angel but they seem to be gone, so I have left them in the main tank, also tested water Params and they are fine aswell.

Thanks

 

[rworegon]

I would take out the rock before medicating. Just run some filter floss in the filter. No carbon or rock in hospital tank. THey absorb the medication.

 

[Shergar11]

Ok nice one mate I will do that, gonna wait till tomorrow to start medicating coz it did look like it was slightly better today than the last 3 days, kind of hoping it might have fought it off itself, poor things wee bit stressed bein moved coz its hidin at bottom of tank not swimming about, so if tomorrow it's swimming around but still covered al begin to medicate )

 

[mike007]

What are you using to treat the fish. Most meds will kill the benifical bacteria on the live rock so it will not help to put it in quaratine tank.

 

[Aquaph8]

In only 30 liters of water if you don't have some kind of cycled media in your filter things are gonna go south pretty fast.