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View Poll Results: What is your Quarantine tank setup?

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  • It's only setup when I have fishes to quarantine

    10 47.62%
  • It's a permanent setup but it's a bare tank with filtration

    1 4.76%
  • It's a permanent setup with plants and substrate (please elaborate)

    2 9.52%
  • I don't have any quarantine tank setup

    8 38.10%
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Thread: Is your Quarantine Tank a permanent setup?

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    Is your Quarantine Tank a permanent setup?

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    Hi

    For you guys who have a quaratine Tank. I am wondering, it is not possible that every other day you have new fish to quaratine. How do you guys maintain a QT? Are there permanent faunas/flora in the QT tank or is the water in the tank drained out after the completion of Quarantine and top up only when you have new fishes.

    If you do have permanent Fauna/Flora what are some good suggestion?
    WaterH2O
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    I drained all water out after quarantine period is over as it is seldom used.

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    a quarantine tank is not just for new fish be can also be a hospital tank.
    i believe most folks don't have a permanent one due to space.

    concept for a QT - low maintanace and cost.

    here's a simple setup i had planned.
    air powered sponge filter, bare bottom and maybe a java fern or two and java moss.
    ambient light sould be sufficient for these plants not to die.
    so your only cost is the air pump electricity.

    and if you want fauna maybe cheap fishes can do - guppy or tetra or feeder fish.
    but that might defeat the low maintanance part.
    celticfish
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    QT tank for me is a must (I keep discus), but I don't have a permanent QT tank ready. Only setup when there are new discuses coming in. Just bare tank with a airstone.
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    If you are planning on keeping exotic species, wild caught etc. The Q tank is essential for a good start. I keep a 3 footer running on Ehiem 2026 permanently for new comers. It comes with substrate, drift wood and rocks and lighting as well. If there are no new comers, the tank serves as my dither fish tank.
    Something about the water & the fishes that calms me down.

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    One question, after quarantine your new aqusition in the QT and when transferring to main tank, do you guys still acclimatise the fish, shrimps by floating them in a bag or dump them straight in?
    WaterH2O
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    Used to have a bare tank with filtration set up as a quarantine tank set up. But after a while, somehow got these worm like thing that has a soft crust of some sort sticking all over the bottom and sides of the tank. If use a stick to disturb and break the crust, a worm would wiggle out. Really no idea what type of worm is it. This even happen to the pail of water I put aside with the ketapang leave after a while. They are also present in my betta tank where I break up each crust in front of my fighting fish and he would happily eat up the released worm. He won't touch them as long as they are in the crust.

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    The insect is like a mosquito though not near as dangerous.
    Kind of like bloowd worms.
    Any open water and their there!
    I get them in my balcony tank.
    Don't know how they get into their "cacoon" but I notice the same too.
    The fish not eating them while they are in there.
    celticfish
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