I am going to be moving in a few months and I will have to be moving my 75 gallon tank. I currently have a mushroom takeover in progress as well as a few unwanted anemones. I plan to move all the livestock to a 40 breeder that I will have setup before the move. I will take my time putting the 75 back together and want to take all the necessary steps to keep hitch hikes as well as disease out of my main display.
I have decided that I would like to setup a few quarantine tanks so that I can watch all of the livestock and remove all pests. I have been thinking of using an array(between 3 and 6) 5 or 10 gallon tanks that will be set up next to each other. This way I will always have a place to put new corals or fish that I buy when brought home and I could isolate any unwanted critters after the move.
The tanks would be drilled and have a common sump. If it is necessary to isolate a tank a few valves can be closed and the tank is removed from the common sump system, operating on a power head or HOB filter. Once the tank is healthy the fish, or coral would be transferred to a clean QT and the dirty tank can be removed and cleaned before it is reinstalled into the array. The QTed critter can then be monitored in the clean tank for a few more weeks until it is safe to return to my display.
I plan to put a filter sock at the outlet of each QT to the sump. I am thinking that I could run all of the coral quarantines in the loop with the common sump.
Are there any Hitch Hikers that I should be worried about making it through a felt filter sock? What about algae spores? I have some bubble algae I would like to get off a few frags as well.
Will new fish need to be isolated to their own tank or will the common sump work? (Sick fish would always get an isolated system.)
If anyone has built or seen a system like this can you post some pictures?
I have decided that I would like to setup a few quarantine tanks so that I can watch all of the livestock and remove all pests. I have been thinking of using an array(between 3 and 6) 5 or 10 gallon tanks that will be set up next to each other. This way I will always have a place to put new corals or fish that I buy when brought home and I could isolate any unwanted critters after the move.
The tanks would be drilled and have a common sump. If it is necessary to isolate a tank a few valves can be closed and the tank is removed from the common sump system, operating on a power head or HOB filter. Once the tank is healthy the fish, or coral would be transferred to a clean QT and the dirty tank can be removed and cleaned before it is reinstalled into the array. The QTed critter can then be monitored in the clean tank for a few more weeks until it is safe to return to my display.
I plan to put a filter sock at the outlet of each QT to the sump. I am thinking that I could run all of the coral quarantines in the loop with the common sump.
Are there any Hitch Hikers that I should be worried about making it through a felt filter sock? What about algae spores? I have some bubble algae I would like to get off a few frags as well.
Will new fish need to be isolated to their own tank or will the common sump work? (Sick fish would always get an isolated system.)
If anyone has built or seen a system like this can you post some pictures?
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