Hospital tank

Ice · 11-27-2006, 10:46 AM

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I was reading Marine Aquarium Keeping by Stephen Spotte and I came across a very good idea. He mentioned we should have a separate tank for a hospital tank and a separate one for a QT tank. His reasoning is no meds tracing be in a QT tank. To me, it sounds like a great idea to me.

atnixon · 11-27-2006, 11:19 AM

I quite agree with you ice...For me, that is my perception anyways...having a seperate tank for hospital and aquarantine..My reasoning is because you really dont want to be treating a fish with some meds for a week or so in quarantine, put back in display and then put a very sick fish in the same tank and them meds have an adverse effect on the already poorly fish...

Niko

Puffer Pita · 11-27-2006, 11:47 AM

Not necessary IMO. All of the meds can be removed with carbon in the filter and successive water changes, so there's no need for a separate tank.

harif87 · 11-27-2006, 12:15 PM

All the meds can be removed with water changes and activated carbon, but if you have extra tanks laying around why not. Makes things a little easier.

Puffer Pita · 11-27-2006, 12:24 PM

If I had a spare, there'd be fish in it.

**Fishfirst** · 11-27-2006, 10:07 PM

Well actually I medicate ALL fish that are in quarentine whether they are new arrivals or whether they are sick. That way, ich is never present in my main tanks, because I kill it before it reaches the main.

Ice · 11-28-2006, 08:23 AM

I was thinking of painting the bottom white on those tanks. Any thoughts ?

**Fishfirst** · 11-28-2006, 09:55 AM

wouldn't hurt wouldn't help... completely optional

**TheOldSalt** · 11-28-2006, 12:34 PM

NO!!!!!

If anything, you want the bottom of your QT to be black. White washes out the colors of your fish, which makes it hard to tell if they are sick or just washed-out.

Black bottoms make it a lot easier to see the parasites, thereby making it a lot easier to gauge how many are in the tank and easier to remove them via siphon. The darkness also alleviates a lot of stress in the fish during this stressful time.

Either is opTIONal, but black is optIMAL.

**Fishfirst** · 11-28-2006, 12:53 PM

Wow TOS thats good thinkin

Ice · 11-28-2006, 02:27 PM

Never thought of it that way. Thanks for the tip.

OldManOfTheSea · 12-02-2006, 11:33 PM

I used a different browser again, if im being blocked, please tell me and I will stay away for I received no email of being ban from here and please tell me why

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Not necessary IMO. All of the meds can be removed with carbon in the filter and successive water changes, so there's no need for a separate tank.

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All the meds can be removed with water changes and activated carbon, but if you have extra tanks laying around why not. Makes things a little easier.

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wouldn't hurt, wouldn't help... completely optional

Its not all as easy as that for one thing in a QT, you have no LR and a thin to no gravel bed to where as in your main tank with anywhere from 3 to 5 inches if not more, and you treat with copper, you will have copper traces in your tank for one hell of a long time and you can do water changes as you think it will remove everything for you. Also in your main tank, you not would treat with copper if your tank has LR and then you be talking about every time to remove it when you need to do so and this will be a long dragging process.
I use a QT tank for fish for my reef tanks and I wouldn't do anything else and if a fish dies while in the QT tank, your main reef display is safe from the stress of that fish.

Ask many who has lost so many fish by doing nothing in quarantine there fish that if they would do anything different>

All a person need is depending on the size of the fish they be keeping is a 20 to 40 gal QT/hospital and not rush it into your main tanks. Or it is you can go by as one says here, that its completely optional.

**Fishfirst** · 12-04-2006, 11:41 AM

you have not been banned... something must be stopping this site from loading on your computer... such as a firewall.

OldManOfTheSea · 12-04-2006, 09:10 PM

Fishfirst, Whatever the problem be, its something to do with my new computer for this problem is also in few other forum sites and as one I cannot manage at all to sign in on my own computer but can when on my daughters.

It seems that I had forgotten to sign out last time

Also if and when nothing works in managing to return to the site, I would then consider in finding a new one.

Also I have at the bottom of this post of Notification Type: Instant email notification abd I not even see that I had gotten one.

11-27-2006, 10:46 AM	#1
Ice Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Age: 43 Posts: 550	Hospital tank Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I was reading Marine Aquarium Keeping by Stephen Spotte and I came across a very good idea. He mentioned we should have a separate tank for a hospital tank and a separate one for a QT tank. His reasoning is no meds tracing be in a QT tank. To me, it sounds like a great idea to me.

11-27-2006, 11:47 AM	#3
Puffer Pita Puffer Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,672	Not necessary IMO. All of the meds can be removed with carbon in the filter and successive water changes, so there's no need for a separate tank. __________________ Tina Puffers: Auriglobus silus x2 Colomesus asellus x1 Tetraodon travancoricus x1 Tetraodon biocellatus x2 Tetraodon nigroviridis x1 Tetraodon baileyi x2 Tetraodon lineatus x1 Tetraodon palembangensis x1 The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated. - Mohandas Gandhi

11-27-2006, 12:15 PM	#4
harif87 Minor Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Age: 21 Posts: 995	All the meds can be removed with water changes and activated carbon, but if you have extra tanks laying around why not. Makes things a little easier. __________________ sorry for beating you senseless "The human torch was denied a bank loan"

11-27-2006, 12:24 PM	#5
Puffer Pita Puffer Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,672	If I had a spare, there'd be fish in it. __________________ Tina Puffers: Auriglobus silus x2 Colomesus asellus x1 Tetraodon travancoricus x1 Tetraodon biocellatus x2 Tetraodon nigroviridis x1 Tetraodon baileyi x2 Tetraodon lineatus x1 Tetraodon palembangensis x1 The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated. - Mohandas Gandhi

11-27-2006, 10:07 PM	#6
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 5	Well actually I medicate ALL fish that are in quarentine whether they are new arrivals or whether they are sick. That way, ich is never present in my main tanks, because I kill it before it reaches the main. __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

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11-27-2006, 11:19 AM	#2
atnixon Fishy Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Staffordshire UK Age: 35 Posts: 24	I quite agree with you ice...For me, that is my perception anyways...having a seperate tank for hospital and aquarantine..My reasoning is because you really dont want to be treating a fish with some meds for a week or so in quarantine, put back in display and then put a very sick fish in the same tank and them meds have an adverse effect on the already poorly fish... Niko

11-28-2006, 08:23 AM	#7
Ice Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Age: 43 Posts: 550	I was thinking of painting the bottom white on those tanks. Any thoughts ?

11-28-2006, 09:55 AM	#8
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 5	wouldn't hurt wouldn't help... completely optional __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

11-28-2006, 12:34 PM	#9
TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,471	NO!!!!! If anything, you want the bottom of your QT to be black. White washes out the colors of your fish, which makes it hard to tell if they are sick or just washed-out. Black bottoms make it a lot easier to see the parasites, thereby making it a lot easier to gauge how many are in the tank and easier to remove them via siphon. The darkness also alleviates a lot of stress in the fish during this stressful time. Either is opTIONal, but black is optIMAL.

11-28-2006, 12:53 PM	#10
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 5	Wow TOS thats good thinkin __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

11-28-2006, 02:27 PM	#11
Ice Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Age: 43 Posts: 550	Never thought of it that way. Thanks for the tip.

12-04-2006, 11:41 AM	#13
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 5	you have not been banned... something must be stopping this site from loading on your computer... such as a firewall. __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

12-04-2006, 09:10 PM	#14
OldManOfTheSea Fishy Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Hillsborough NC Age: 70 Posts: 6	Fishfirst, Whatever the problem be, its something to do with my new computer for this problem is also in few other forum sites and as one I cannot manage at all to sign in on my own computer but can when on my daughters. It seems that I had forgotten to sign out last time Also if and when nothing works in managing to return to the site, I would then consider in finding a new one. Also I have at the bottom of this post of Notification Type: Instant email notification abd I not even see that I had gotten one.

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