QT for Inverts

[fernalfer]

Ok so i have quarantined my first fish and added my CUC and my 3 corals in my Display tank 75 days before adding my quarantined fish. So i'm pretty sure my DT is free of disease.

Now my tank has been running now for about 5 months. I had originally bought 2 cleaner shrimp, 3 nassarius snails, 3 emerald crabs and 3 Turbo Snails. The algae is pretty much kept at bay but feel a bigger Clean up Crew is needed.

Now i know everyone says QT everything. My tank needs more inverts to tackle this algae before it really gets out of hand but what everyone is saying is i can't even put them in the tank for 72 days which does not help me. Also what your saying is i have to buy all my inverts i want at the same time because if i don't the 72 day fallow cycle starts over every time a new CUC is added to the QT tank. Very frustrating if this is indeed how it needs to be done.

Maybe others can elaborate.

Problem is my LFS does not always have all the exact CUC i want so i'd have to buy at random times different things.

 

[icemanalex]

I would say as long as you don't add the water the CUC comes in and you rinse with fresh clean salt water, i.e either drain in net or pick out and put in a clean container with that clean water you should be able to add as you see fit, the fallow period imo, is not for inverts they usually don't host.

 

[dankreef]

QT stuff can lay eggs on the shells of inverts.