QT Tank advice!

[EBaker1983]

So we bought some clown fish from our LFS, and they got sick and have died. After a lot of research and the LFS telling us they were "Having an issue with their saltwater fish" we came to think it is brooklynella. So we returned the two dead fish and purchased a QT tank and all necessities to get one set up. Since everything in our DT was introduced to this illness, should we worry about our inverts being carriers? Leaving our tank fallow with inverts should we worry about when the time comes still having that in our tank? Also if we wanted to put some live rock in our DT (it's only a 10 gallon so just a small piece) do we need to clean that somehow? any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Squishie89]

Are you saying your display tank is only 10 gallons and has no rock in it?

 

[EBaker1983]

No, Display tank is a 55 gallon, the QT is 10 gallon and my boyfriend was talking about putting a small piece of our live rock into the QT.

 

[EBaker1983]

So we bought some clown fish from our LFS, and they got sick and have died. After a lot of research and the LFS telling us they were "Having an issue with their saltwater fish" we came to think it is brooklynella. So we returned the two dead fish and purchased a QT tank and all necessities to get one set up. Since everything in our DT was introduced to this illness, should we worry about our inverts being carriers? Leaving our tank fallow with inverts should we worry about when the time comes still having that in our tank? Also if we wanted to put some live rock in our QT(it's only a 10 gallon so just a small piece) do we need to clean that somehow? any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Sorry I see where I messed up and would cause some confusion. This is edited to hopefully make some more sense.

 

[Squishie89]

Oh okay, whew, you had me seriously worried there. Ahaha holy poop, just noticed you are in frederick! Hello fellow marylander!

I am really not sure about brook. but, for the most part, inverts can be carriers of parasites, but the parasites usually need a fish host and will eventually die without one, but if you run the tank fallow of fish for 2+ months, then they should die off. But you have to be a stickler about waiting otherwise all that effort is for naught.

No rocks or sand in quarantine. https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/eq...arantine-tank-how-quarantine-fish;-guide.html