Corvus Oscen ? So in a quarantine tank should be empty until you get the fish inn .. or should it be running with no fish .. how you keep biological goin if we don’t have fish in it?
Awesome example of how to set up a quarantine tank before introducing new fish in your established tank! Iknow this video is 4 years old but you explain this whole process so much better than any current videos I've seen. Just you sitting there physically showing us what you use and throwing it in the tank is a great way for people to see exactly what you should do. So many videos now just spit out the same bullet points from the internet in front of a green screen.
Excellent monologue on quarantine tanks. There's so many videos on quarantine tanks but most just vaguely explain how to set up a bare tank and neglect to describe the actual purpose. I liked how you provided further explanation on WHY to setup a qt tank. There's really 100's of ways to set up a quarantine tank, but just one main reason for doing it.
Thanks for the great video! I like the long format but these shorts have been very informative and maybe easier to reference down the road when I'm trying to remember some detail you mentioned!
With the set up and bio media that you have Do you have to cycle the quarantine tank first before you can add the fish or you can add the fish immediately with proper acclimation?
OK so heres something I dont understand.. How is this quarantine tank cycled? That bio media has no BB on it from it being dried and cleaned... Do you not need to worry about the cycle in a QT tank? Im trying to set one up I have a shipment coming in and I dont know how to get the tank cycled. I dont want to use media from my main tank as it was just medicated for ich about a week ago and I dont want to introduce that to the QT tank..
You made a very strong point about using an ugly old tank for QT so as to avoid temptation to promote it to a 'real' tank and leave yourself without a QT.
Great video! I find internal parasites is the biggest issue I run into. Ich is easy to treat and I've had great success treating flukes with Clout but I don't think I've ever really successfully dewormed a fish. Not sure what the deal is...
The only thing you didn't cover is ph. I keep cichlids and my water is a little to soft. So I have to use crushed coral to raise and keep it up. I don't want to keep buying it for a quarantine tank. So is there a way to keep it in between. Without worrying about something bad growing.
Well, with the cichlid quarantine, I'd still go with crushed coral, it's not going to take all that much for a small 20 gallon. If it's too expensive, possibly look into a bulk bag and store it in a bucket with a scoop so you can use little amounts at a time.
Hey Mate, Great video! you've been very informative. can you tell me where you can purchase the bags of ceramic circles. hard time finding them in OZ Cheers, Chris
Do you always medicate your quarantined fish? I know Aquarium Coop suggests dosing Ich X, general cure, and Erythromycin. I usually follow the same protocol, but I have a quarantine tank that has been set up, no meds, for two weeks now. Everyone looks great. Should I medicate them just in case?
That is really on a case by case basis, there is no need to medicate a healthy animal. That said, imports are often super stressed and susceptible to having some disease and are already sick in some fashion. Treating all the imports is the best practice in that situation, best care is basically what I can advice, though a healthy mature system should always have fish in a holding quarantine for observation before getting added in.
@@CorvusOscen Can you quarantine otocinclus with little problems? I have heard that their survival rate is much better if added to the tank that they are going to be housed in long term.
@@CorvusOscen Yes. I meant after the fish have been returned to the display tank...how to keep the quarantine tank running. "sacrifice fish" (ugh)? feeding? testing? if empty? keeping those bacteria alive...I see you tear our tanks down.... Oh! But now I see that due to mts, the keeping of an empty quarantine tank must be impossible...HA!
Always great to see you in the morning 😊 Great and important video. I hope that everyone found it as simple and straightforward as I did. Your videos and streams are always so down to earth. You make them feel like friends just hanging out sharing experiences and knowledge and that is super cool. One question though, can you quarantine in a set up tank that just has snails and a few plants? ( After adding seeded media ) I have 3, 1-5 gallon tanks set up with just pond snails and a few plants and was wondering if that would work. (For small community fish) I have an empty 10 gallon to use also. Just wondering. Thanks 😊
what if you have several tanks and have never treated fish during a quarantine process? can you treat each tank as a quarantine tank? do this with plants and snails in the tank?
amy marie - I'd just observe the tanks you have up and running now, treat with meds if a problem develops, the med trio Joel suggests is plant and snail safe- then from this point going forward, set up a small QT tank for any new additions. Just my opinion, someone else may feel differently.
Would you recommend bleaching a glass quarantine tank for sterilization? Also how does vinegar size up for you on the scales of sterilization in a glass tank? -Thank you
Bleach is a great option as it will evaporate, which is what you're looking for as a long term solution. Easy to use, simply 2 TBS per gallon, let soak for 20 minutes, drain and allow to dry!
Make sure there is no fish in it, you can add bleach and run it, though I do not recommend as it will become air borne and possibly poison you and your other pets.
Hey, I wonder, can you have a planted tank-quarantine? :D Becouse im planing to catch myself feeder minnows and I don't rly want to go with the plane tank style
How are you finding free tanks? I’ve been looking for a secondhand tank as my first for months now but everyone around here expects 90% of what they paid for a 10 gallon full of plastic junk
How do you manage to measure safe for such small volumes of water? The directions make it seem like overly complicated, like X number of grains for anything less than hundreds of gallons. I'd like to use Safe more, I'm just intimidated that I could accidentally hurt my fish by using too much in a small tank!
Savanna The Aqua Llama - I use a product called Clor-Am X, pretty much the same as Safe with similar directions. I did the brain figuring one time for my sized tanks and my pond and then wrote just those numbers on the tub. However, I have hugely over dosed a couple times by accident and never saw any issues. Ymmv though. But I think it’s not an issue imo.
20gal storage bins from Homedepot and Walmart for $9 is much better, you need heater, an airpump with either air stone or sponge filter, just throw your new fish in there, put the combo meds recommended by Cory and treat them new fish for a week and you're pretty much good to go. Don't even bother with any bio filter for quarantine tank as the meds you use will wipe out all beneficial bacterias anyway, just don't feed the fish while they're being quarantined for a week and they'll be fine.
Our QT tank *was* supposed to be temporary. That was until the new shrimp order arrived with a berried female that gave birth during quarantine. This is because the previous berried female gave birth in the planted display tank, but then the only tank inhabitants (two _Hara jerdoni_ ) ate all the baby blue shrimp within three days. She [Momma shrimp] died the next morning which left the display tank without a cleaner crew. So my wife decided to grow out the new babies in the QT tank which has now turned into a ""temporary" shrimp tank. I use the term "temporary" loosely. We have one brilliantly colored Red Cherry shrimp female that somehow slipped in during our Sunkist Orange order, without a home though (currently housed in the QT tank). She's simply too beautiful to let go so I have the feeling that my wife has a new tank in mind before the baby blue shrimp mature enough to mate with her. I implored her to get an ugly container of some kind for a QT tank, but she wanted a glass five gallon because it wouldn't make her kitchen look ugly while it's "temporarily" set up. There's that word again. The whole thing is madness! Keep up the good work my friend.
I love the idea of using an ugly tank and not leaving it set up. I set up two 10 gallon tanks as quarantine and now one is a shrimp tank and one is an apisto tank. 😐
I just had a fish dealer get upset with me for quarantine the fish I bought from him. He said he was insulted because he’s never sold a sick fish and would never sell a thick fish and that quarantines stresses the fish🤦♀️
Take no notice, every fish store I go in whether chain pet shops or ‘ better’ aquatic shops have the odd dead fish in their tanks. His problem if he feels insulted, better that than an illness rampaging through your main tank.
Is a QT on your vision board? Can you... #PutASumpOnIt? 😂🤣 Thank you for the video to get me through until your next livestream!💕 Great information, practical, and certainly a definitely-should-do for everyone! I'd rather my QT have an ugly blue background so I don't turn it into another display tank. I've done that with two "quarantine tanks" already. 😳 So I have one now that is small enough I can quarantine whatever fish I get, but not large enough to been practical long term home. See you at the Friday stream!
Good advice on the PVC pieces and having biomedia ready to go. Nice and easy. I like #ThingsAlongThoseLines 🤣😂 I'm just ribbin ya, really love your content! 😄
How to build a sump: ruclips.net/video/o8iRKFPRuqk/видео.html
You thinking of ordering from the Coop? bit.ly/2IsBKSq
Oraganationism.. lol yo your great .. thanks for all the awesome info on the quarantinetionism.. lol .. 👍🏼
Blue back ground no bueno .. 👎🏼...for plexiglass black back only ..sometimes white looks dope
Corvus Oscen ? So in a quarantine tank should be empty until you get the fish inn .. or should it be running with no fish .. how you keep biological goin if we don’t have fish in it?
Awesome example of how to set up a quarantine tank before introducing new fish in your established tank! Iknow this video is 4 years old but you explain this whole process so much better than any current videos I've seen. Just you sitting there physically showing us what you use and throwing it in the tank is a great way for people to see exactly what you should do. So many videos now just spit out the same bullet points from the internet in front of a green screen.
Appreciate your comment!
I've had quarantines turn into scaped tanks. Now I just use a clear plastic tote.
Haha. Same here. 4 of my current tanks began as quarantine tanks.
everytimeeeee
Yep, me too! That tote isn't at all tempting to aquascape.
I love the pvc pipe joints and pieces idea
Excellent monologue on quarantine tanks. There's so many videos on quarantine tanks but most just vaguely explain how to set up a bare tank and neglect to describe the actual purpose. I liked how you provided further explanation on WHY to setup a qt tank. There's really 100's of ways to set up a quarantine tank, but just one main reason for doing it.
Thanks for the great video! I like the long format but these shorts have been very informative and maybe easier to reference down the road when I'm trying to remember some detail you mentioned!
Could you instead of adding the cump of filter sponge or bag if benefitial bacteria add a plant, i have heard they carry benefitial bacteria too.
love the videos in the morning, coffee & Corvus in the morning, good stuff!
plastic tubs make Great quarantine tanks. And I am not tempted to set it up and fill it up when I am done
54Punchie same here. I can’t control my mts otherwise. Lol
Good tip. Thanks.
Advantage of acrylic or glass is you can see how the fish are doing easier
@@rogerball6265 What if we use a clear plastic container ?
Some discussion on the type of meds for diseases commonly seen in fish would be really useful. Really enjoy your vids!
Sped up this video and saved 5 minutes of my life
With the set up and bio media that you have Do you have to cycle the quarantine tank first before you can add the fish or you can add the fish immediately with proper acclimation?
excellent tutorial joel,easy to understand,love the laid back style lol,all the best......................dougie
Great presentation of the facts with easy to replicate methods - rock on.
What are the basic treatments you need for quanatine set up
Do you fill it up with water from the main tank or use fresh water? How fast can you add fish?
great video. saves a lot of money to so a small QT tank. Do you do plants in it too
Very useful information! Ive been waiting for a good video about this, thanks!
Great video! Can you do a follow up to how you Medicate while in QT?
OK so heres something I dont understand.. How is this quarantine tank cycled? That bio media has no BB on it from it being dried and cleaned... Do you not need to worry about the cycle in a QT tank? Im trying to set one up I have a shipment coming in and I dont know how to get the tank cycled. I dont want to use media from my main tank as it was just medicated for ich about a week ago and I dont want to introduce that to the QT tank..
You made a very strong point about using an ugly old tank for QT so as to avoid temptation to promote it to a 'real' tank and leave yourself without a QT.
Super informative love the video. Old school style.
Great video! I find internal parasites is the biggest issue I run into. Ich is easy to treat and I've had great success treating flukes with Clout but I don't think I've ever really successfully dewormed a fish. Not sure what the deal is...
Do you fill it with tap water or ro water?
The only thing you didn't cover is ph. I keep cichlids and my water is a little to soft. So I have to use crushed coral to raise and keep it up. I don't want to keep buying it for a quarantine tank. So is there a way to keep it in between. Without worrying about something bad growing.
Well, with the cichlid quarantine, I'd still go with crushed coral, it's not going to take all that much for a small 20 gallon. If it's too expensive, possibly look into a bulk bag and store it in a bucket with a scoop so you can use little amounts at a time.
Hey Mate, Great video! you've been very informative. can you tell me where you can purchase the bags of ceramic circles. hard time finding them in OZ Cheers, Chris
Good video! That would also be a cool frag tank
do yu use ick x anything else?
Med trio from aquarium co-op
@@CorvusOscen that is what I figured, sorry if you said it, just subbed
Do you always medicate your quarantined fish?
I know Aquarium Coop suggests dosing Ich X, general cure, and Erythromycin.
I usually follow the same protocol, but I have a quarantine tank that has been set up, no meds, for two weeks now. Everyone looks great. Should I medicate them just in case?
That is really on a case by case basis, there is no need to medicate a healthy animal. That said, imports are often super stressed and susceptible to having some disease and are already sick in some fashion. Treating all the imports is the best practice in that situation, best care is basically what I can advice, though a healthy mature system should always have fish in a holding quarantine for observation before getting added in.
@@CorvusOscen Can you quarantine otocinclus with little problems? I have heard that their survival rate is much better if added to the tank that they are going to be housed in long term.
Excellent and thorough explanation! 2👍👍
Love the love streams and really digging these videos as well...thanx for the videos
Cant find info anywhere on post medication maintenance of a quarantine tank...
Post medication?
@@CorvusOscen Yes. I meant after the fish have been returned to the display tank...how to keep the quarantine tank running. "sacrifice fish" (ugh)? feeding? testing? if empty? keeping those bacteria alive...I see you tear our tanks down....
Oh! But now I see that due to mts, the keeping of an empty quarantine tank must be impossible...HA!
@@Handygrrl Yes, after quarantine tank is used, clean it out, sterilize the media and put it away.
Awesome help! Thanks!
Keep kicking knowledge Corvus,
Question. Now that you have sterilized the bio filter bag, how long before it get's re-cycled with bacteria for use?
Allow it to completely dry, typically a few days. Back into the system
@@CorvusOscen I meant how long until the bio media is repopulated with microbes and cycled to be used with fish?
Takes a few weeks, I always have extras that have been in the cycled tanks for a long time though
Thanks.
@@CorvusOscen When you say "Back into the system", do you mean it goes back into the main display once it has been bleach cleaned, rinsed and dried?
Saw you with Cory, and subscribed.
Thanks!
I was going to get some shrimp for one of my tanks, do they have to be quarantined too?
Depends on the source, most places that re sell them do not quarantine long enough to avoid it for me.
I go to one place that has 2 quarantine tanks, I will buy from him and have a just in case quarantine tank on hand, thanks for the advice.
Well done sir
Always great to see you in the morning 😊
Great and important video. I hope that everyone found it as simple and straightforward as I did. Your videos and streams are always so down to earth. You make them feel like friends just hanging out sharing experiences and knowledge and that is super cool.
One question though, can you quarantine in a set up tank that just has snails and a few plants? ( After adding seeded media ) I have 3, 1-5 gallon tanks set up with just pond snails and a few plants and was wondering if that would work. (For small community fish) I have an empty 10 gallon to use also. Just wondering.
Thanks 😊
what if you have several tanks and have never treated fish during a quarantine process? can you treat each tank as a quarantine tank? do this with plants and snails in the tank?
amy marie - I'd just observe the tanks you have up and running now, treat with meds if a problem develops, the med trio Joel suggests is plant and snail safe- then from this point going forward, set up a small QT tank for any new additions. Just my opinion, someone else may feel differently.
Great video! Keep up the great work!!
Great Job !
Love this kind of informative video!!!!!
Would you recommend bleaching a glass quarantine tank for sterilization? Also how does vinegar size up for you on the scales of sterilization in a glass tank?
-Thank you
Bleach is a great option as it will evaporate, which is what you're looking for as a long term solution. Easy to use, simply 2 TBS per gallon, let soak for 20 minutes, drain and allow to dry!
Someone’s got a back log of videos!!
Is there a way to sterilize the tank with everything in it?
Make sure there is no fish in it, you can add bleach and run it, though I do not recommend as it will become air borne and possibly poison you and your other pets.
What about plants, do you quarantine new plants as well?
Only when I am getting in plants from farms. The process is not that long though, five minute melafix dip.
Quite informative +Corvus Oscen , thanks for the details
Agree with the fact that quarantine is absolutely necessary
You don’t cycle your quarantine tanks?
Why would I not cycle them?
Corvus Oscen Jesus! Sorry I was tired.. rewatched it again, and heard what you actually said 🙄👐
Hey, I wonder, can you have a planted tank-quarantine? :D Becouse im planing to catch myself feeder minnows and I don't rly want to go with the plane tank style
How long do you have to wait until you can put the new fish in quarantine once the quarantine tank is set up?
Once I set it up, I use the matured media from a cycled tank and it's ready to go.
Love the video
How are you finding free tanks? I’ve been looking for a secondhand tank as my first for months now but everyone around here expects 90% of what they paid for a 10 gallon full of plastic junk
The best tip was USE AN UGLY SCRATCHED TANK. As sufferers of MTS, we WILL turn that quarantine tank into a display tank.
also, thank you for this video!! I have had a ton of questions that you have basically answered here - GREAT video!! thank you!! =D
Should plants be quarantined?
Sometimes, though pretty rare these days from the typical retailers.
Oraganationism... lol yo your awesome bro .. thanks for all the info
sweet stuff dude!
After treating your fish for fin rot let's say, how long after successfullly treating them do you want to wait before adding new fish
Follow the instructions per the manufacturers recommendations. I would wait and do a lot of water changes, or neutralize any treatments.
How do you manage to measure safe for such small volumes of water? The directions make it seem like overly complicated, like X number of grains for anything less than hundreds of gallons. I'd like to use Safe more, I'm just intimidated that I could accidentally hurt my fish by using too much in a small tank!
Savanna The Aqua Llama - I use a product called Clor-Am X, pretty much the same as Safe with similar directions. I did the brain figuring one time for my sized tanks and my pond and then wrote just those numbers on the tub. However, I have hugely over dosed a couple times by accident and never saw any issues. Ymmv though. But I think it’s not an issue imo.
20gal storage bins from Homedepot and Walmart for $9 is much better, you need heater, an airpump with either air stone or sponge filter, just throw your new fish in there, put the combo meds recommended by Cory and treat them new fish for a week and you're pretty much good to go. Don't even bother with any bio filter for quarantine tank as the meds you use will wipe out all beneficial bacterias anyway, just don't feed the fish while they're being quarantined for a week and they'll be fine.
Nice Job!!!
great video!!!!
Thank you so much Joel. Love your channel...L8RRRRRRR
Yep, learned the hard way, only use ugly scratched up plastic totes. Otherwise I end up with yet another tank, mts, I've got it bad, lol
I liked your continuous shot. Not quite as much action as the Daredevil hall fight scene, but still pretty good.
Can't go wrong with a doodoo boost.
Our QT tank *was* supposed to be temporary. That was until the new shrimp order arrived with a berried female that gave birth during quarantine.
This is because the previous berried female gave birth in the planted display tank, but then the only tank inhabitants (two _Hara jerdoni_ ) ate all the baby blue shrimp within three days. She [Momma shrimp] died the next morning which left the display tank without a cleaner crew. So my wife decided to grow out the new babies in the QT tank which has now turned into a ""temporary" shrimp tank. I use the term "temporary" loosely.
We have one brilliantly colored Red Cherry shrimp female that somehow slipped in during our Sunkist Orange order, without a home though (currently housed in the QT tank). She's simply too beautiful to let go so I have the feeling that my wife has a new tank in mind before the baby blue shrimp mature enough to mate with her.
I implored her to get an ugly container of some kind for a QT tank, but she wanted a glass five gallon because it wouldn't make her kitchen look ugly while it's "temporarily" set up. There's that word again. The whole thing is madness!
Keep up the good work my friend.
I love the idea of using an ugly tank and not leaving it set up. I set up two 10 gallon tanks as quarantine and now one is a shrimp tank and one is an apisto tank. 😐
It's not a Corvus vid w/o the, ''INTERNET'' scream!
40 bags of ceramic rings in your sump? Sounds like a hot mess. Why not use something like MarinePure blocks instead?
I'd make that a shell dweller tank
I just had a fish dealer get upset with me for quarantine the fish I bought from him. He said he was insulted because he’s never sold a sick fish and would never sell a thick fish and that quarantines stresses the fish🤦♀️
Jessica Hussey bru, I bought 6 guppies. 3 died within 1.5 weeks... bought form a big nature store.. never going there again xD
Take no notice, every fish store I go in whether chain pet shops or ‘ better’ aquatic shops have the odd dead fish in their tanks. His problem if he feels insulted, better that than an illness rampaging through your main tank.
Who else is here because of the title and was just wondering if Corona had made the jump?
Year 2020. You just know.
Is a QT on your vision board? Can you... #PutASumpOnIt?
😂🤣
Thank you for the video to get me through until your next livestream!💕 Great information, practical, and certainly a definitely-should-do for everyone! I'd rather my QT have an ugly blue background so I don't turn it into another display tank. I've done that with two "quarantine tanks" already. 😳
So I have one now that is small enough I can quarantine whatever fish I get, but not large enough to been practical long term home.
See you at the Friday stream!
Good advice on the PVC pieces and having biomedia ready to go. Nice and easy.
I like #ThingsAlongThoseLines
🤣😂 I'm just ribbin ya, really love your content! 😄
Ha! That’s what’s happed to my last 2 20’s lol. I’m down to a 5 gallon if I need a quarantine tank. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
This is completely unrelated but you should grow your beared more up on your cheeks it looks wierd as it is now. Not hating btw