to quarantine or not to quarantine?????

[prow]

hey everyone. well this is the deal. i have been looking for some greenbanded gobies, come to find out they are somewhat rare. anyway a month ago i got my new lights and had a algea bloom, which was expected. still getting some nitro bubbles off my rocks and some, just a little algae left. all water parameters are good. about a week ago had a little heating issue and temps dropped, now i have only one female carpenter wrasse left. only had 3 wrasse in the tank. the tank has been going about 11 months. i have noticed the wrasse is scrapping up against the rock every now and then. also i notice he has labored breathing in the morning but is fine afte the lights have been on a while. i am thinking i have a dissolved O2 issue, could be do to the nitro bubbles and bloom i just had, getting a test kit today will put in a air srone if needed no worries here easy fix. i am a little worried about the wrasse. why, well not because of the wrasse but i came up on 6 of the greenbanded gobies. knowing how hard these guys are to find i took them. problem is i am not ready for them. i have no hospital tank set up. i am setting up one now, however, i dont want to put the new guys in a cycling tank. so with a possible infected fish with the wrasse and no hospital tank to use at this time i am planning on putting the new gobies in the sump. have a area about 12X10" in there for them. can put them in the refugium but they might dig (have a mud filter).
so the plan is to put 6 in this little area and keep them there for a month (they are only about 3/4" now), if one shows signs and looks bad will transfer that one to the hospital tank, just hope it will be cycled if i need it by then. so what do you guys think, cool to put in the sump and risk infecting them from the wrasse or take a chance with a uncycled hospital tank? dont care about the wrasse, will never be able to catch him for isolation, tanks 120gal with 150lbs LR. any thoughts??

[Poseidon]

Why not just leave them at the LFS? You could pay for them, get your tank in order, THEN bring them home.

Reminds me of an old thread on RC that had to do with yellow tangs being "rescued". ;)

[prow]

i would but got these from a store in virginia. i live california. they would not hold them for me. i asked but, nnoooo.
since i have been trying to buy a group for a while and finialy found some i bought them. it was one of those looking to long and hard to pass them up times.
hummm maybe the LFS here will hold them for me. hummm??? but then again they might be better off with me. different if they were already there. any thoughts??

[almostdiva]

Get a little 10G tank and a sponge filter. Put the sponge in your sump. Let it run for a day. Voila -- you have a (mostly) cycled sponge that will "seed" your filter in your 10 G.

Do you have the gobies yet? When do they arrive? If you have a day or so, you will be in good shape. You can buy a second sponge to leave in your sump, that way you will always be ready when you find yourself in need of setting up quarantine.

Have you tried doing a (big-ish) water change in your main tank to help your wrasse?

R

[prow]

i did just that. been in there 6 days now. man these guys came in so tiny. like about 1/8 inch. about the size of a big mysid. they have doubled in size already. the wrasse is doing fine. have not seen her scratching or anything sence that one time. breathing and everything all good. i think i just got a little inflamation on the gills when i added the new lights, because of all the nitrogenus gasses coming off the rock and sand. seems fine no signs of anything, will still try to use a fish trap to get her out and put her in one of my other tanks.