With new build underway, I am also going to utilize part of my mixing room, which is no where near my new display, for a QT area. I’ve got the basic understanding on how things should be set up and maintained while a fish is in the QT process. I would rate myself as a junior novice today. Which is better then the dump and prey approach I have formally embraced. I just read something, and it really caught my attention. This being Velvet coming in on frags? For me reefing changed when I had the correct balance and species of utilitarian fish.
I put WAY more coral in my tank than fish. I really had not thought about long term QT’ing for coral. Are the risks equally as high with coral for being disease into a tank? Also, what about snails and hermits, etc? If you were to put snails and hermits into a QT for 80ish days, would you just leave the light on the promote algae growth for the snails? Dumb questions, but, we (my family and I) like caves for our fish. But we know, we would never get one out if something happened. Our new display is 400g going from 100g, so, we are trying to follow as many best practices as we reasonably and responsibly can.
I put WAY more coral in my tank than fish. I really had not thought about long term QT’ing for coral. Are the risks equally as high with coral for being disease into a tank? Also, what about snails and hermits, etc? If you were to put snails and hermits into a QT for 80ish days, would you just leave the light on the promote algae growth for the snails? Dumb questions, but, we (my family and I) like caves for our fish. But we know, we would never get one out if something happened. Our new display is 400g going from 100g, so, we are trying to follow as many best practices as we reasonably and responsibly can.