Moved Everything to Quarantine Tank

[Brofessor]

About a week and a half ago, I came home to find my emerald crab chowing down on my blenny I'd gotten a week before that. No idea what happened to him, I had a thriving copepod population and all the parameters were good. Then the next day I noticed white spots on one of my clownfish. Ich? Velvet? I didn't know but it was obviously something bad. No idea if it came from the blenny or the chaeto I'd bought to control my nitrates. A little research on this forum has led me to believe that chaeto is almost always parasite infested.

Being new to the salt water tank world for just about maybe 5 or 6 months now, I hadn't realized how necessary a quarantine tank was. So the next day I intended to go out and get one and set it up as quickly as I could. I wake up to find that one of the clownfish had died, oddly it was the one without spots. So I was going to pick up a QT tank on my way home. When I ended up getting home with everything ready to go, I see my anemone had gotten sucked up into the blower and nuked the tank. My peppermint shrimp were dead, the clown was dead, and what few hermits crabs were left were standing like statues on top of the highest rock with the emerald crab. So I quickly setup the QT and moved my coral, rocks, and what few inverts were left alive to it. I was happy to find that my pistol had survived, too, when I lifted up his rock.

So what do I do now? Everything seems to be doing fine in this hastily thrown together QT tank. Should I just throw away all the sand and clean my display tank and cycle it for another 6 months while I leave everything in the QT tank? And how would I keep everything in the QT from dying in the meantime, like should I be dosing it with anything?

 

[LesPoissons]

Oh my,
Im sorry you had a crash. So all the livestock is in the qt tank, along with the liverock, which is still live. You can do a full water change on the old tank and run carbon, the live sand is still "live" too. The refill it. If you want to kill the ich in the display tank, you have to leave it fallow (no fish) for 75 days. You can move the rocks and inverts back after the water change though. Then you need to treat whatever fish are in your new qt with copper/cupramine to kill ich. Also use prazi pro for intestinal parasites. Get test kits to monitor both tanks and after 75 days you can move all the fish back. then use your qt as needed when you get new fish and you wont have parasites. Also get powerhead covers with nems. = )

 

[LAReefer4Life]

Oh my,
Im sorry you had a crash. So all the livestock is in the qt tank, along with the liverock, which is still live. You can do a full water change on the old tank and run carbon, the live sand is still "live" too. The refill it. If you want to kill the ich in the display tank, you have to leave it fallow (no fish) for 75 days. You can move the rocks and inverts back after the water change though. Then you need to treat whatever fish are in your new qt with copper/cupramine to kill ich. Also use prazi pro for intestinal parasites. Get test kits to monitor both tanks and after 75 days you can move all the fish back. then use your qt as needed when you get new fish and you wont have parasites. Also get powerhead covers with nems. = )

This sounds like a good game plan but I suggest leaving fallow for 12 weeks just to be safe. Technically its 76 day but give yourself some wiggle room.