Salinity at transfer to quarantine

[s70]

I have set up two quarantine tanks (10g and 20g) and are waiting for them to cycle.

When I went to the LFS the other day, they told me I should have my salinity at 1.022.

In my DT I have been trying to be at 1.026.

Is it right for me to have the QT tanks at 1.022 or whatever they keep their fish at to start?

Do you bring it down to Hypo then bring it up to DT level at the end when ready to transfer into the tank? Slowly of course.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Dave1993]

i don't QT my lfs has salinity at 1.019 i put them straight in my DT at 1.025 never lost a fish so do whatever you want imo

 

[brandon429]

that recommend is why the disease forum is busy losing thousands of fish daily, peers recommending to each other to skip all efforts at disease control.

that recommend is easy when not running a disease forum full of other people's fish losses/being accountable for recommends


qt is correct because we see that working for other people's tanks in Jays and Humblefish's site

or in any running disease forum...yes you'd match salinity and slowly bring up over 3-4 days, as Jay wrote.

when inquiring about fish health and prep, use what the stickies in the disease forum show (they include specifics on salinity prep and bringup) to avoid wiping out your tank 5 months from now due to velvet.

 

[brandon429]

one of the reasons the blanket referral is dangerous/causing wipeouts for pages on end/ is because folks who don't practice disease preps don't take time to discover what kind of tanks they're recommending to skip prep actions

for example

a 20 year old reef tank has several biological actions in place to suppress disease that a newly cycled / white rock tank does not have, lists of differences separate the two systems

blanket recommends don't take time to discover/ factor that, so they just kill tanks all day long in the casual recommend.

*you don't get to see the kill from taking this kind of advice quickly*
you have to subscribe to new reefers who elect to skip preps and watch for their posts 8 months after the event to get the wipeouts. delayed kills come from skipping tank preps

when fish die while on vacation, it wipes out entire reefs not just the fish...all found in the disease forum.

 

[s70]

that recommend is why the disease forum is busy losing thousands of fish daily, peers recommending to each other to skip all efforts at disease control.

that recommend is easy when not running a disease forum full of other people's fish losses/being accountable for recommends


qt is correct because we see that working for other people's tanks in Jays and Humblefish's site

or in any running disease forum...yes you'd match salinity and slowly bring up over 3-4 days, as Jay wrote.

when inquiring about fish health and prep, use what the stickies in the disease forum show (they include specifics on salinity prep and bringup) to avoid wiping out your tank 5 months from now due to velvet.

I just re read it. Right there in the first day. Thanks Brandon!

 

[brandon429]

hey the ironic part is I myself do not quarantine fish he he

because I don't keep fish, you can't keep fish in a fishbowl reef/keeping corals in there is mean enough lol.

but as a reader of internet forums I'm sure that if I had a decent sized reef able to carry fish, and I added some without preps, they'd be dead by April '23.