How many of you have an emergency back up Quarantine tank for you precious corals? I want to set one up just in case a tank crash occurs. Is it basically the same as a fish quarantine but with better lights and flow? pls share what yours looks like and how you have it set up.
QT for Corals
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Eric B
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I actually frag a piece and give it to some of my close by friends and they also do the same in case one in our small group has a tank crash the group can replenish their stock once back and going and it is highly unlikely that everyone's tank will crash at the same time. I find it easier this way than to set up a separate QT tank just for back up corals from my system. I just use a QT tank for holding new items to make sure healthy before adding to main system.
TinpanVA
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It's a simple 12 X12x12 rimless, just running carbon and sponge in the HOB filter. I'm still not sure if that is enough flow by itself, but I have a spare mp10 if need be, but I was planning to use that in a frag tank I'm setting up.
TinpanVA
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I pulled water from the main tank and did a 20% WC, still got a small cycle, so I'm doing small water changes every other day (like 5%). Corals that are in there are doing fine. The light's are DIY from Rapid LED, cool white, blues, UV's and moon lights.
TinpanVA
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Update on the QT.
Moved it from out in the man cave to inside the house, was getting pretty good temp swings. I also had a significant cycle that took the tank almost a month to settle in, I don't feed the tank so I was surprised by it. I guess the no3 that was present in my tank water feed the system. Currently reading 0 no3 but .08 for po4. Not sure where that's coming from unless it's leaching out from the plastic rack I made. If it continues I'll add a sack of rowaphos to the filter.
Moved it from out in the man cave to inside the house, was getting pretty good temp swings. I also had a significant cycle that took the tank almost a month to settle in, I don't feed the tank so I was surprised by it. I guess the no3 that was present in my tank water feed the system. Currently reading 0 no3 but .08 for po4. Not sure where that's coming from unless it's leaching out from the plastic rack I made. If it continues I'll add a sack of rowaphos to the filter.
