Quarantine Inverts?

[Mustangtodd97]

I have gone thru the painful 76 day fallow period to rid my DT of ich. Don’t ever want to go thru that again! Looking to replenish my CUC (snails, hermits), also possibly add a couple if shrimp. My question is, do people QT their inverts? What diseases can they possibly bring into the DT? And How long in QT to prevent them? If QT’d, they will be going into my coral QT with some new corals waiting out their time before being added to the DT. I can’t put then in my fish QT because it has cuprmine in it. Thanks in advance for all the responses!

 

[maevepotter]

Supposedly anything wet can bring ich. Theoretically they could have an encrusted ich tomant on their shells waiting to hatch.

 

[User]

Yes. The main diseases that have a stage that can use hard surfaces as a vector are Ich and Velvet. Anything hard acts as a substrate for the tomont stage to attach to and encyst.

Anything wet gets the QT .

Snails and hermit crabs — full 76 days in a full QT- heater, air stone, cycled HOB. I use sand and a big hunk of live rock too . There are 120 assorted snails and 18 hermits in here

Shrimp and crabs- until they molt. But if you put anything new in the tank after they molt but before you move it, then you need to wait until next molt. Be careful- very susceptible to osmotic and temp stress for about a week after molt

I use little 2 gallon totes for shrimp. Heater, air stone for circulation. No need for a filter

Urchins and sea stars- good news!! No QT, but make sure you rinse several times in saltwater into a bucket before you put them in DT. This’ll wash off any freeswimmers

Anemones- don’t get encysted with tomonts, but do trap a lot of water internally that could have ich or velvet freeswimmers. QT 16 days fallow until the velvet freeswimmers starve to death.

I also QT chaeto in a bucket with a light and air stone for circulation for 16 days, in order for velvet freeswimmers to starve . Any small snails I notice get picked off first. Then I do a dip in coralRX to get rid of pods. They have a hard shell that can be encysted upon. Then 16 days in the bucket

From Humblefish ‘quarantine timeframes’ thread

Coral/Invert Quarantine Time Frames
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...t-Quarantine-Time-Frames.334584/&share_type=t

 

[Mustangtodd97]

Thank you all. Very informative! 76 days in the coral QT tank for everyone! Better to be safe than sorry!