QT questions????

[prow]

hey everyone. well i happend to come into a few fish. a percula clown, a sunburst/fathead anthias, a yellow clown goby and a mandin goby. no worries on the mandrin the tank is more than ready for him. here is the issue. i have a 16 gal tank that i have been using for almost two months as a QT tank for another fish. anyway what do you think about using this tank for these fish?

i could put the mandrin straight in. well give him a rense off with tank water. i know they have a nice slim coat so should be parasite, ich free right???

???

[Steven Pro]

While some people insist that mandarins can't get ich, that is patently false. I have seen a number of mandarins coated in ich.

If you want to be sure your fish are clean, you have to quarantine them all.

[prow]

well that sucks. kinda knew it,just needed to hear it again.
so what about the size of QT?

[The R/C Man]

Sounds kind of small to me for the amount of fish you are talking. The close quarters will undoubtedly induce further stress during the move. If you have a larger display tank, and plan to acclimate larger fish in the future then you should consider a larger QT tank.... I am planning to use a 55 gallon as they are fairly inexpensive.

[prow]

i want to get a bigger QT tank, will be needing one. just dont have the room and will not be able to get one for a couple weeks. i work 12 hour shifts grave yard. so need to wait till i have a couple days off in a row. plus dont have the room for it, live in a apt. how about using 5 gal buckets? could put the anthias in the QT tank with the mandrin and use a bucket for the clown goby and percula clown.

[Steven Pro]

If you have cycled biological filters to run in them along with heaters, you could use buckets, although it makes observing the fish for disease extremely difficult.

[Oldsaint]

I use a 55 for fish and a 29 for corals, both I got for practically nothing. They were in someone's garage collecting dust. Both tanks are very scatched up and could never be use for display but it didn't matter to me. I would shop around 55s are a dime a dozen.
That 16g might make a good coral QT.