QT with beach sand and water? Goby

[DBLA]

So I have diamond goby, sapphire blue damsel and small yellow tang coming in soon and will be moving the tank and changing out all the previous QT water along with it. I will be putting a dish of sand in for the goby and treating with copper power with Hanna checker building to 1.75 over 3-5 days. (With the Tang I don’t want to risk anything. And will do the Prazipro last.). I’m fortunate to live at the beach but would never use sand or water for the DT (I know some do with succsess). But what about for QT that WILL be getting copper? Does this change anything? I could actually put down a sandbed and just toss when the 30 days are up. I’ve also debated just using seawater in QT. As a side note I’m getting a couple cleaner shrimp but plan to QT them in a separate 5gal AIO QT until they molt then add to DT, this is the recommendation I had seen by searching.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Fastpitch]

So I have diamond goby, sapphire blue damsel and small yellow tang coming in soon and will be moving the tank and changing out all the previous QT water along with it. I will be putting a dish of sand in for the goby and treating with copper power with Hanna checker building to 1.75 over 3-5 days. (With the Tang I don’t want to risk anything. And will do the Prazipro last.). I’m fortunate to live at the beach but would never use sand or water for the DT (I know some do with succsess). But what about for QT that WILL be getting copper? Does this change anything? I could actually put down a sandbed and just toss when the 30 days are up. I’ve also debated just using seawater in QT. As a side note I’m getting a couple cleaner shrimp but plan to QT them in a separate 5gal AIO QT until they molt then add to DT, this is the recommendation I had seen by searching.

Thanks for any advice!

Others smarter than me will weigh in, but I wouldn't do it. What possibly could be the upside?

 

[Fastpitch]

If you have not seen it already, you might find this of some interest....

 

[Smo]

I have QTed 3 diamond gobies without sand. They did just fine. I did target feed them, however, with a 1/4” acrylic tube, using a mix of frozen foods. The last one sucked the food out of the tube like it was a straw.

 

[LBReefer]

I qt’d a sand sifting goby with a cup of sand and had no issues. I had to periodically check the copper levels, but I did not see significant absorption rates.

The goby also mostly ignored the sand, so I am not sure that it made much of a difference in its survival rate anyway.

 

[seaplane]

I QT'd a Blue Dot jawfish with a pan of sand and he never went in it, so , probably really not necessary.

 

[DBLA]

Thanks guys. Looks like the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. I’m in the Gulf Stream pretty often and may check parameters just for curiosity next time I go out. Looks like standard glass and PVC.

 

[Fastpitch]

Thanks guys. Looks like the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. I’m in the Gulf Stream pretty often and may check parameters just for curiosity next time I go out. Looks like standard glass and PVC.

Let us know what you find for parameters. It would be interesting. That aside, I would be far more worried about the parasites, bacteria, worms, inverts, pollutants and other nasties that you can't test for, introduced into your QT. Maybe nothing, but why roll the dice?