Quarantine invertebrate

[shazane]

So I recently had a ich break out. Tank is going to be fallow for the next 8 weeks . SO I learned the hard way and do not want to take any chances on reintroducing ich or any other diseases and parasites into my tank. So my questions are...
1) How do you quarantine your snails, shrimp, crabs and frags?
2) Should I just do my clean up crew now? (have some but not done)
3) What do you use for lighting in your quarantine tank with frags?
If anyone has any good right ups on any of this that would be great to.
Thanks!

[ToddTT]

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: A Quarantine Tank for Everything by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com

For sessile invertebrates, a good diet while in quarantine is even more crucial. Over the past few years, the importance of feeding the animals we collectively call 'corals' has become better understood. It has finally dawned on us that these are, in fact, animals and they do need to feed. Of particular importance when discussing feeding photosynthetic creatures in quarantine is the reality that they are not likely receiving light much beyond their compensation point. On the positive side, though, this energy demand can be compensated for with food. What is important is that it be the right kind of food.

An assortment of foods (from left to right): LiquidLife’s BioPlankton (phytoplankton), Sally’s frozen Pacifica plankton, LiquidLife’s CoralPlankton (rotifers), SweetWater Zooplankton (daphnia), sushi nori (processed seaweed), American Marine’s Selcon vitamin supplement, Piscine Energetic’s frozen Mysis shrimp, Boyd’s Vita-Chem vitamin supplement and Argent’s freeze-dried Cyclops-Eeze.

[MyNameIsJoe]

From what I understand, you only have to QT the fish... If it's not a fish, it does not have to go into the QT.


check out the link below:

A QUARANTINE PROCESS


good luck!

[leebca]

There are two answers to your question, shazane.

1) If the purpose of the quarantine is to keep fish diseases out, then a 6 week quarantine should suffice UNLESS you either do or don't know if the marine life is coming from a disease-free tank. If they are coming from a disease-free tank: 6 weeks. If you don't know or are sure the tank was disease ridden, then 8 weeks. Nothing to cure; no meds; just hold.

2) If the purpose of the quarantine is for the above AND to prevent unwanted hitchhikers then the total time is 8 weeks for the fish diseases and the time for observing for the other things you don't want.

Since this is a fish Forum, you need to figure out from the Reef Forum what 'things' from inverts you don't want to let into your aquarium so you know what to keep out and control and thus, what to quarantine for.