I was recently given an acrylic 130 gallon tank (about 6ft L x 18in W x 27in H) with all the equipment from a friend who no longer wanted it. He had it for about 3 years and mainly had fish. I hired his aquarium upkeep guy to assist in transporting it to my home from his, but am not 100% sure if he cleaned the sand or not, however he did transport the water with a 20% change. With the move also came a filefish, a six-line wrasse, and a hermit crab. He did have an ich outbreak back in March this year which wiped out the majority of his tank (came from chromis he introduced).
Question to everyone, are there any measures or steps I should take to "prepare" this tank for future livestock? I have had this tank for about 3 weeks now and my top priorities were to get a feel for monitoring the salinity, setting up my RODI water system and mix my saltwater, performing a couple water changes, and keeping the existing fish alive. My plan is to create a reef tank with coral and would like to add a pretty tang eventually as well as other fish.
I've been trying to ingest as much information as possible on this forum and YouTube. Should I QT existing fish due to the ich outbreak earlier in the year and fallow the display tank (current fish appear healthy)? Should everything be ok to move forward with adding QT'd livestock in the coming weeks? Something else I'm not thinking of? I don't want to waste time/energy on something I shouldn't do but I also don't want to be ignorant of something I should do, so any advice from ya'll will be much appreciated.
Question to everyone, are there any measures or steps I should take to "prepare" this tank for future livestock? I have had this tank for about 3 weeks now and my top priorities were to get a feel for monitoring the salinity, setting up my RODI water system and mix my saltwater, performing a couple water changes, and keeping the existing fish alive. My plan is to create a reef tank with coral and would like to add a pretty tang eventually as well as other fish.
I've been trying to ingest as much information as possible on this forum and YouTube. Should I QT existing fish due to the ich outbreak earlier in the year and fallow the display tank (current fish appear healthy)? Should everything be ok to move forward with adding QT'd livestock in the coming weeks? Something else I'm not thinking of? I don't want to waste time/energy on something I shouldn't do but I also don't want to be ignorant of something I should do, so any advice from ya'll will be much appreciated.