Paul Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 How do you keep your quarantine tank cycled between occupants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSamsell Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, Paul said: How do you keep your quarantine tank cycled between occupants? I keep a lot of snails in mine. 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwise Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 I keep spare foam blocks, used pre-filters, plant cuttings, and TBD new plants in my utility tanks. And like Dave, snails! I honestly get way more use out of them for plants, but my fish population is not large. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 Snails don’t do well in my water. My pH is 6 that’s why I have SA fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSamsell Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, Paul said: Snails don’t do well in my water. My pH is 6 that’s why I have SA fish. That is a low ph for sure. Well, you can always leave a few fish in quarantine & remove them when the tank is needed for truly new fish. Also, maybe buffer the water a bit, so the snails do live. Just some ideas. 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nataku Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) I will usually keep spare sponge filters in my various tanks. When it's time for the quarantine tank to see use, I set it up, fill it up and throw one of those spare sponge filters into the quarantine. Now it's instantly cycled. The fish then get to go through their time in the tank, eventually they are either healthy and getting to join a main tank, or they didn't make it. At the end, I pull the sponge filter out and clean it well and let it sit dry on a counter top for at least a week, just in case if it was somehow harboring something a sick fish had, it's dead. Then the sponge filter can be returned to whatever tank it originally came out of. I don't mind it has to get new bacteria colonizing it, it wasn't the primary filter of that tank, so I'm not worried about it affecting the ammonia processing ability of the tank. Edited July 30, 2020 by Nataku I can't spell to save my life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexa Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 25 minutes ago, Nataku said: I will usually keep spare sponge filters in my various tanks. When it's time for the quarantine tank to see use, I set it up, fill it up and throw one of those spare sponge filters into the quarantine. Now it's instantly cycled. The fish then get to go through their time in the tank, eventually they are either healthy and getting to join a main tank, or they didn't make it. At the end, I pull the sponge filter out and clean it well and let it sit dry on a counter top for at least a week, just in case if it was somehow harboring something a sick fish had, it's dead. Then the sponge filter can be returned to whatever tank it originally came out of. I don't mind it has to get new bacteria colonizing it, it wasn't the primary filter of that tank, so I'm not worried about it affecting the ammonia processing ability of the tank. I have the same method because if I have an empty cycled tank, I stock it, and it’s not a quarantine tank anymore. 😛 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenP2003 Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) I do the same, but I have two sponge filters always going in two tanks, plus extras. I take one out for quarantine tank, immediately put spare one in. I impulse buy fish too much. Edited July 30, 2020 by StephenP2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickS77 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I keep a sponges going in them but also one or two zebra danios because those guys are the hardest fish I know, they are my designated quarantine fish. I'll usually move them to a different tank when I bring in a new group of fish to run meds through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faedother Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I just feed the tank two drops of pure ammonia each week per 10 gallons. Then do a 100% water change before I add new fish to my quarantine. I don't leave it up and running 24/7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I don't cycle my tanks. When I setup a new tank I just use water from the big tank and put in a lot hornwort. Typically I put fish in the same day. I guess they cycle it for me. Some tanks have a sponge filter some don't. Probably the only tank that needs a filter is the 40 breeder where I am growing up a dozen baby discus. The baby discus eat like pigs. I do daily water changes on the discus tank and frequent water changes on the other tanks. Every tank except for the 500 gallon is choked with plants, mainly hornwort and duckweed. The 500 gallon tank does not have a filter, but it is the source of water for the water changes in the other tanks and is therefore frequently refreshed.. So essentially the plants are my sponge filters. Like @Streetwise my fish populations are low. I have two 10 gallons each with 2 small fish, one 29 gallon with 2 small fish, and a 7 gallon with 6 guppy sized fish (pygmy sunfish). If you run low fish populations, you can get away with murder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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