How many Fish can I quarantine in a 30 gallon tank?

asonitez · 08/08/2017, 03:26 PM

Got a 30 Gallon Tank, Filter, Stand, Goodness - got an entire box of Marine Pure Bioballs in my sump, and did a Dr. Tims (with fish cycle) on my big tank.

Big Tank cycled in like 6 days- probably due to no ammonia buildup cuz in 260 gal's of water I only had 3 fish LOLOLOLOL - 2 Baby Snowflakes and 1 Fairy Wrasse and 10 hermits.

Back to the Quarantine. So I want to add all my evil stressy fish first. That means TANGS. I want them all to go in at the same time too. For Tangs I'm looking at

1 Yellow Tangs (or 1)
1 Powder Blue
1 Powder Brown (or not)
1 Regal Tang
1 Scopas Tang

All are Juvenile (around 2")

To test the quarantine system I put ONE Marine Pure ball in the filter and dosed the ammonia from Dr. Tims and it was gone the next day.

I got like like a hole BOX of marine pure balls seeded from my sump.

Bout how many fishes can i quarantine?

I also have a large 100 Gallon Roughneck Feed bin that I cured my rocks in the garage doin nothin. It would be def harder to visually see disease on the fish though if I used that.

I plan to Prazi, De-Worm, and then change water and Copper for a month.

Jndragon79 · 08/08/2017, 04:51 PM

are you going to cycle the qt media, how long have the balls been in your setup? If you monitor ammonia levels and have spare Dr Tim's laying around, all of them if they are juvenile size. just monitor trates and ammonia

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asonitez · 08/08/2017, 05:39 PM

The bioballs have been in my sump during my original DR. Tims cycling of my main display. I have 1 pack of balls and a giant 8x8x4 block in my display sump that all cycled at the same time as my Display. Display is struggling to register any bad bacteria because I cooked my live rock for months with dr tims and used it when I did my setup.

I could use as many or as little of the balls as needed to seed the quarantine. I also have a bottle of dr tims that I plan to add with the new fish. "Treatment" won't be for a few days until I know the tank could handle the bioload. I have an ammonia badge, seachem copper, seachem copper test kit, seachem ammonia badge and prazi pro.

08/08/2017, 03:26 PM	#1
asonitez Floodicus Maximus Flooris Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,643	How many Fish can I quarantine in a 30 gallon tank? Got a 30 Gallon Tank, Filter, Stand, Goodness - got an entire box of Marine Pure Bioballs in my sump, and did a Dr. Tims (with fish cycle) on my big tank. Big Tank cycled in like 6 days- probably due to no ammonia buildup cuz in 260 gal's of water I only had 3 fish LOLOLOLOL - 2 Baby Snowflakes and 1 Fairy Wrasse and 10 hermits. Back to the Quarantine. So I want to add all my evil stressy fish first. That means TANGS. I want them all to go in at the same time too. For Tangs I'm looking at 1 Yellow Tangs (or 1) 1 Powder Blue 1 Powder Brown (or not) 1 Regal Tang 1 Scopas Tang All are Juvenile (around 2") To test the quarantine system I put ONE Marine Pure ball in the filter and dosed the ammonia from Dr. Tims and it was gone the next day. I got like like a hole BOX of marine pure balls seeded from my sump. Bout how many fishes can i quarantine? I also have a large 100 Gallon Roughneck Feed bin that I cured my rocks in the garage doin nothin. It would be def harder to visually see disease on the fish though if I used that. I plan to Prazi, De-Worm, and then change water and Copper for a month.

08/08/2017, 04:51 PM	#2
Jndragon79 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 127	are you going to cycle the qt media, how long have the balls been in your setup? If you monitor ammonia levels and have spare Dr Tim's laying around, all of them if they are juvenile size. just monitor trates and ammonia Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

08/08/2017, 05:39 PM	#3
asonitez Floodicus Maximus Flooris Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,643	The bioballs have been in my sump during my original DR. Tims cycling of my main display. I have 1 pack of balls and a giant 8x8x4 block in my display sump that all cycled at the same time as my Display. Display is struggling to register any bad bacteria because I cooked my live rock for months with dr tims and used it when I did my setup. I could use as many or as little of the balls as needed to seed the quarantine. I also have a bottle of dr tims that I plan to add with the new fish. "Treatment" won't be for a few days until I know the tank could handle the bioload. I have an ammonia badge, seachem copper, seachem copper test kit, seachem ammonia badge and prazi pro.