qt for frags

[rich nyc]

Since my tank is in fallow and I know I will buy more frags in the future, do sps do ok in a nano frag tank. I live in an apartment with a 2 tanks and a qt and now getting a frag qt so I had to go small and ordred a pico 4.3 G oceanbox frag tank that I could find room for in my bathroom. TIA, Rich

 

[rich nyc]

Another question, do corals not do well if you put coral rx in your frag tank to keep killing any pests?

 

[coweyes298]

I have a 11 gallon all in one shallow frag tank for coral qt. I ran kalkwasser coupled with ATO for a month or so but couldn't figure out how much I need to dose it. I switched to GHL doser 2.1 with 3 heads. One head is for ATO, another two are for auto water change. I set it to change 4 gallon of water in 7 days span. Weekly water test and PO4 is fixed at 0.03 ppm, NO3 at 1 ppm, dKH at 8 and calcium at 1300 ppm. I have been running this setup for 3 months now, coralline algae is growing on the frag rack now and I have some acro which have good polyp extension. I use one Kessil A160 with controller on this frag tank, and yes there are shadowing on some acro stick.

I did coral dip (Bayer + Revive) before I introduced them to frag tank.

 

[tankstudy]

Another question, do corals not do well if you put coral rx in your frag tank to keep killing any pests?

You'll probably kill your corals if you dose coral rx directly and constantly in to your frag tank. I generally pull my frags out, dip, wash and return to frag tank.

Most frags of anything do well in a cycle'd frag tank. If your tank isn't cycled, the stuff you kill with Coral RX will cause you to have an ammonia spike and from there you'll get a domino effect.

I like to use the 2.5 gallon tanks from petsmart. Easy to do water changes on.

 

[Humblefish]

You'll probably kill your corals if you dose coral rx directly and constantly in to your frag tank. I generally pull my frags out, dip, wash and return to frag tank.

+1 Most corals can only tolerate brief exposure to dips/baths (10 minutes).

 

[rich nyc]

thanks. i decided if I dont want to kill any more fish from disease I need to take all the precaution. Would probably only be able to buy corals several times a year this way unfortunately.