BRS should offer a full quarantine kit. like a 20Gal aquarium, all the medications that elliot recommends, the air pump/filter, pvc, etc all in one go so you KNOW youre not missing something. hell even if you cant do the 20gal aquarium, thats probably the easiest thing to get yourself
This is a fantastic suggestion. Box Stores often have sales that will help acquire a 20 gallon aquarium, or alternative container. But the kit idea is fantastic.
Absolutely love that you guys are finally tackling quarantine tanks. I've been telling everyone for years that a proper quarantine is a must for all living things going into the display. It just makes this hobby so much easier if you do. Quarantine and patience.
I don't even do any saltwater, but the quality of this channel is so high (countless awesome demos and experiments, and I love Ryan he's great), I keep coming back
Fish everywhere have been dying for this series! 😂💀😭 Thanks for making this happen I can only imagine the amount of work that is going into this series!
Thank you for this, and the additional series to follow. I know I've struggled with this, along with so many others. Arguably, establishing a new Aquarium's micro biome was the fist major hurdle I encountered when starting in this hobby (and it posed a significant challenge). But, this topic of parasites quickly followed. My first parasite outbreak was dealing with brooklynella. At the time I only had 4 fish: two young Clowns, a Bristle Tooth, and a Yellow Tang. Knowing next-to-nothing about this topic, I lost the first Clown to the disease while buying the equipment to quarantine. The second died in the first day during treatment. And due to my inexperience, I sadly lost both Tangs trying to treat them with Formalin. While video series like this from BRS and others served as my first exposure to this amazing hobby. My own experience was over a year of fighting to establish a correct microbial colony in my dry rock and dead sand. Only to be followed by loosing the first fish I bought to parasites. And then, finding flatworms on my first few corals (which I assume will be in the coral part?). While this hobby is Beautiful when done right. That summed up my first two years in this hobby, even after watching content and trying to learn proper husbandry: it was an uphill challenge. So, thank you for your effort to educate and provide resources. I look forward to the rest of these.
Totally agree, all you have to do is dose a mL or 2, test the copper level after, calculate how much it goes up by per mL and boom you’re golden. So easy. For my QT size 2 mL = 0.45
Fantastic video! I’ve only just started my first salt water fish tank this year. I deliberately got a small tank to “see how I go,” but with the plan to upgrade to a larger tank in 12 months. I’ll use the smaller tank as my QT tank after that. I’ve got a pair of clowns and a blenny, as well as an anemone and snails. All doing great so far.
This series could revolutionize the fish keeping hobby if done right. I am hopeing to see how to spot issues early with lots of reference videos of injected fish behavioral pattern and physical signs to spot the issue early and treat it. Also details on how to treat those diseases alongs with effective meds alternatives if not available. As a new hobbyists who just started and faceing issues. This could be a life saver and goto guide.
Elliot rocks! I no longer buy fish from anyone else because (other than one time where some bags broke during shipping) the fish are always super healthy when they arrive.
Been patiently waiting for more videos and this series is going to be 🔥🔥🔥! I’ve been quarantining all fish now that I’m back in the hobby and fingers crossed, haven’t lost anything yet. I have not quarantined my coral though, but did dip it. Super excited to learn more from you both!!!
I’ve been in the hobby 18 years. I spent close $100,000 in fish through the years. Since I started tank transferor method and small micron filtration, I’ve yet to lose a fish in the past 5.5 years. I wish I knew then what I know now. I’ve always fed well and a great variety so it’s specific to all the fish I’ve kept. But nothing is more important that a proper qt system. TTM being the most important and effective from what I’ve experienced, and only use freshwater dips and medicated food while in QT. Never copper.
Please please please actually finish this series this time! And I’d love to hear perspective on what level of QT is recommended from store bought fish vs pre-QT fish (like from Marine Collectors).
Super important. Especially when the quality of fish seems to have really dropped lately. Been keeping fish for 19 years and never had much in the way of disease but in the last 6 months I’ve had fish turn up with velvet, ick, worms, flukes and uronema. Throw in a couple of mystery deaths too.
As any follower of mine will tell you, I have advocated and practised the QT of everything new and have done so for the last 5 years. Imagine how many people would have benefitted from seeing it if my channel was a little bigger... Its absolutely essential to the long term success of the tank in my opinion. 👍
I'm super excited for this but I have a quick question, If you are going to add pods and macro algae to your tank (from Algae barn) do I need to quarantine those and if so how?
Here's an idea. If you have the money and I know it's hard to come by right now but make the quarantine tank look better. Add some of those fake coral caves and rocks. Makes it easier to look at and easy to clean. Makes your quarantine take look a little more like a display tank. Just a thought.
Hello! How can a sediment filter be run for filtering the tank water? I think it may need quiet higher pressure than a regular return pump can supply. How do you do it guys? cheers!
When we've done it in the past, we've used 20" canisters and plumbed it in using either male pipe adapters or barb fittings. www.bulkreefsupply.com/reverse-osmosis-canisters.html
Hi all, can BRSTv or anyone else provide pictures for the Emperor angle fish changing steps. My fish is feeding well, and swimming about well. Just need some information regarding the junior to adult steps of changing. Thanks... :)
If buying from a place like Marine Collectors, do you still recommended medicated quarantine? Also, do you think using copper in QT is better than the TTM?
If you're ordering from a retailer that already uses a medicated quarantine, then another medicated quarantine shouldn't be necessary. Copper does have some advantages over TTM (like treating for velvet), but some fish are sensitive to copper. In those cases, TTM would be a better way to go.
Most bacteria responsible for converting ammonia to less harmful nitrite and nitrate will live on surfaces, so while it's totally acceptable to use clean ocean water, it's still valuable to follow the methods laid out in this video.
Awesome video!! Guys I have a cyano outbreak in my 38 gallon tank. I’ve been using a Fluval 407 canister filter. It’s been working awesome. I was told to remove the carbon media out of the canister filter before I dose chemiclean. But when I take out the charcoal/carbon bags should I wash them well after I take them out before I put them back into my filter after the 2-3 days of treatment of chemiclean? My ammonia is 0 and PH is 8.0 and my Nitrite is 0 and Nitrate is 5ppm upon testing right now. I’ve done a few water changes and put lights on for only 2 hours a day instead of the 10 hours before. Can’t wait to see your next 14 videos
The pores in carbon media clogs extremely quickly, so I would suggest swapping it out with new carbon when you're ready to add it back to your system after treatment. Remember that if you have corals, most of them need light to survive, so 2 hours each day might be too extreme. If it's fish only, then the lighting schedule is much more flexible.
@@BRStv THANK you guys sooooo much! I am amped for your new series guys. My tank has had zero issues till this cyano in almost 4 months. I’m new to this hobby. You’d have always been here to help me and it means a lot. I have 4 small clown fish and a small royal gramma and a albino yellow watchman goby (he’s whitish grey for some reason). But like you guys mentioned a month ago for me to do was to use this tank water and filter for new tank. I bought the new Caribsea Araga-Live special grade sand to go into the 75 gallon. But I was also gonna grab a couple scoops of my established sand to add to the new sand for beneficial bacteria. And my tank is just a FOWLR. I think I have it all down correct for my tank upgrade. If there’s anything else I missed feel free to add some info. You guys are gospel bible to me lol. Thank you again so much!
I had a fish must carried ick and veltet. Because my new fish would get it. The had a him over 8 months after I learned It lesson learned . I did a deep cleaning and canster filter system of course In the process the new ones got stressed out. So how I'm wondering if it safe to buy fish from that store . No it's not petco. . i.realy get good fish from petco all fish come from the same place
Just saying… but Ryan, you didn’t clip the plugs when you added the frags from WWC to your tank. (We saw, it was on video 😬). Welcome to Team Ich Management!
Yeah, people may want to browse Marine Collector's reviews... Numerous fish health and customer service issues over the last year or two. Between BRS's alliances with Marine Collectors, reef2reef, and UWC I have to wonder if they do any sort of vetting whatsoever of their business partners?
Many years of running a successful tank here Many qt procedures some that killed fish one that killed my tank...here's what i learned, and what worked. 1 all qt tanks are unstable. Use daily water changes from your display(assuming your tank is pristine). 2. bases of coral are the devil. No matter how encrusted remove...and make sure that no unusual growth is with the coral. This is hard to explain but the dreaded snot snail(most not actually bad as they help with sability, but they still suck) can hitchhike below the coral surface. It looks like a horn of coral on the entrusting base. 3. After the plague it hard to get...thanks idiots.. but hydro quinilone works on the big 3. I ran it for 12 days. This represented the longest life cycle of ick, velvet or brisa- whatever its called.)) 4. Then 12 days of api general cure. This kills the other diseases. Then they are ready. Now for coral....i dipped in the insecticide ( dont substitute others will kill coral) we all know then iodine then a quick fresh water rinse. Then observation for a week...observation also means water parameter observation. I wish i could add a photo so you knew i wasn't just typing to type. This is years of experimentation and heartbreak. Plus a healthy dose of brs. Seriously i never would have made it without you guys. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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BRS should offer a full quarantine kit. like a 20Gal aquarium, all the medications that elliot recommends, the air pump/filter, pvc, etc all in one go so you KNOW youre not missing something. hell even if you cant do the 20gal aquarium, thats probably the easiest thing to get yourself
Shipping on standard cheap glass aquariums is brutal, but we can probably get a kit put together aside from the tank 🙂
This is a fantastic suggestion. Box Stores often have sales that will help acquire a 20 gallon aquarium, or alternative container.
But the kit idea is fantastic.
I legitimately searched BRS for a kit when I first set up my QT system, and was very sad one didn't exist. Would love to see this happen!
@@BRStv It would be great if there was a "common medications" pack with copper, metro, etc in it as well as a separate QT filtration kit.
@@BRStv great point! I hadn’t thought of that shipping cost problem. A BRS “just add cheap pet store tank” kit is a great idea!
Absolutely love that you guys are finally tackling quarantine tanks. I've been telling everyone for years that a proper quarantine is a must for all living things going into the display. It just makes this hobby so much easier if you do. Quarantine and patience.
I don't even do any saltwater, but the quality of this channel is so high (countless awesome demos and experiments, and I love Ryan he's great), I keep coming back
This is fantastic, guys! I'm glad this series is finally happening! 🤩
Fish everywhere have been dying for this series! 😂💀😭
Thanks for making this happen I can only imagine the amount of work that is going into this series!
Love the pun!
I was just searching for a series like this this morning 😂 Good timing! Thanks!
Thank you for this, and the additional series to follow. I know I've struggled with this, along with so many others.
Arguably, establishing a new Aquarium's micro biome was the fist major hurdle I encountered when starting in this hobby (and it posed a significant challenge). But, this topic of parasites quickly followed.
My first parasite outbreak was dealing with brooklynella. At the time I only had 4 fish: two young Clowns, a Bristle Tooth, and a Yellow Tang. Knowing next-to-nothing about this topic, I lost the first Clown to the disease while buying the equipment to quarantine. The second died in the first day during treatment. And due to my inexperience, I sadly lost both Tangs trying to treat them with Formalin.
While video series like this from BRS and others served as my first exposure to this amazing hobby. My own experience was over a year of fighting to establish a correct microbial colony in my dry rock and dead sand. Only to be followed by loosing the first fish I bought to parasites. And then, finding flatworms on my first few corals (which I assume will be in the coral part?).
While this hobby is Beautiful when done right. That summed up my first two years in this hobby, even after watching content and trying to learn proper husbandry: it was an uphill challenge.
So, thank you for your effort to educate and provide resources. I look forward to the rest of these.
Finally! been waiting years since you announced you were going to do a proper QT series. Thanks so much!
Looking forward to this! Please ask Elliot if there are any books he would recommend on the topic for us old school reefers!
Awesome video! I finally started using copper as I wanted to up my qt game. It's so easy, I don't know why I haven't been doing this all along.
Totally agree, all you have to do is dose a mL or 2, test the copper level after, calculate how much it goes up by per mL and boom you’re golden. So easy. For my QT size 2 mL = 0.45
Good to see an expert brought on the show. I like knowing definitively 🙂
Ditto!😁
Hey spicy 👋
elliott!! this guy is my hero. hope we get to see him in more vids!!
Great series!! I am really looking forward to all of the ones in this series. I learn so much watching anything from BRS!!
Super excited for this series. Thanks, BRS
I needed this series in my life. Im a powder brown keeper. Sometimes u just look at that guy wrong and he gets ich
Great on sediment filters. I have used a DE pool filter for same reason for years!!
So happy to see this Serie finally come together.
I would really like to know more about prophylactic treatment and actually how to do so, maybe a demonstration BRS?
That'll be part of this series in a later episode 🙂
I've been waiting for this video series. I'm excited to see what a pro that does this professionally does for qt!
I started reefing a month back and I have all of my corals and inverts currently sitting in a 50l QT tank.
15 part! Heck yeah
Tons of awesome info! We're excited too 😀
Fantastic video! I’ve only just started my first salt water fish tank this year. I deliberately got a small tank to “see how I go,” but with the plan to upgrade to a larger tank in 12 months. I’ll use the smaller tank as my QT tank after that. I’ve got a pair of clowns and a blenny, as well as an anemone and snails. All doing great so far.
This series could revolutionize the fish keeping hobby if done right. I am hopeing to see how to spot issues early with lots of reference videos of injected fish behavioral pattern and physical signs to spot the issue early and treat it. Also details on how to treat those diseases alongs with effective meds alternatives if not available. As a new hobbyists who just started and faceing issues. This could be a life saver and goto guide.
🔥 nice can’t wait to get my uograde going will be ordering a lot from marine collectors and will have 4 75 gallon tanks 2 systems for QT
Elliot rocks! I no longer buy fish from anyone else because (other than one time where some bags broke during shipping) the fish are always super healthy when they arrive.
Been patiently waiting for more videos and this series is going to be 🔥🔥🔥! I’ve been quarantining all fish now that I’m back in the hobby and fingers crossed, haven’t lost anything yet. I have not quarantined my coral though, but did dip it. Super excited to learn more from you both!!!
At Last :) Been waiting for this series for so long
I’ve been in the hobby 18 years. I spent close $100,000 in fish through the years. Since I started tank transferor method and small micron filtration, I’ve yet to lose a fish in the past 5.5 years. I wish I knew then what I know now. I’ve always fed well and a great variety so it’s specific to all the fish I’ve kept. But nothing is more important that a proper qt system. TTM being the most important and effective from what I’ve experienced, and only use freshwater dips and medicated food while in QT. Never copper.
Please please please actually finish this series this time!
And I’d love to hear perspective on what level of QT is recommended from store bought fish vs pre-QT fish (like from Marine Collectors).
Super important. Especially when the quality of fish seems to have really dropped lately. Been keeping fish for 19 years and never had much in the way of disease but in the last 6 months I’ve had fish turn up with velvet, ick, worms, flukes and uronema. Throw in a couple of mystery deaths too.
aside from copper, prazipro is a great medication for flukes and other parasites (internal worms). It's a very gentle medication as well.
Yes at last and just as I’m getting ready to set up my first marine tank 👍👍👍👍
As any follower of mine will tell you, I have advocated and practised the QT of everything new and have done so for the last 5 years. Imagine how many people would have benefitted from seeing it if my channel was a little bigger... Its absolutely essential to the long term success of the tank in my opinion. 👍
Mann.. i am missing Randy❤️❤️❤️
I'm super excited for this but I have a quick question, If you are going to add pods and macro algae to your tank (from Algae barn) do I need to quarantine those and if so how?
Any recommendations on how to get a tang to eat nori? right now mine are not interested at all even though I'd soak nori in garlic...
I notice you use pcv pipe in quarantine tanks for fish to hide in, can i use any type of pipe from home depot?
Are they aquarium safe ?
Thanks
Here's an idea. If you have the money and I know it's hard to come by right now but make the quarantine tank look better. Add some of those fake coral caves and rocks. Makes it easier to look at and easy to clean. Makes your quarantine take look a little more like a display tank. Just a thought.
Thanks
Why a air stone in quarantine tank?
Hello! How can a sediment filter be run for filtering the tank water? I think it may need quiet higher pressure than a regular return pump can supply. How do you do it guys? cheers!
When we've done it in the past, we've used 20" canisters and plumbed it in using either male pipe adapters or barb fittings.
www.bulkreefsupply.com/reverse-osmosis-canisters.html
Excellent
My newly introduced red sea bannerfish is not eating, what should i do?
could you run a sediment filter and a carbon reactor in one of those double canister systems, or would you need to separate them?
You could, just be aware that as the sediment filter clogs, the flow rate through your carbon will also slow down.
@@BRStv good point, thanks!
Excellent!
Hi all, can BRSTv or anyone else provide pictures for the Emperor angle fish changing steps. My fish is feeding well, and swimming about well. Just need some information regarding the junior to adult steps of changing.
Thanks... :)
If buying from a place like Marine Collectors, do you still recommended medicated quarantine? Also, do you think using copper in QT is better than the TTM?
If you're ordering from a retailer that already uses a medicated quarantine, then another medicated quarantine shouldn't be necessary. Copper does have some advantages over TTM (like treating for velvet), but some fish are sensitive to copper. In those cases, TTM would be a better way to go.
Don't the coral dips work on the corals ?
To remove parasites?
Confused
For a second there I thought the title saur you moved in with Eliot and this video is how you’re living together
Most bacteria responsible for converting ammonia to less harmful nitrite and nitrate will live on surfaces, so while it's totally acceptable to use clean ocean water, it's still valuable to follow the methods laid out in this video.
Awesome video!! Guys I have a cyano outbreak in my 38 gallon tank. I’ve been using a Fluval 407 canister filter. It’s been working awesome. I was told to remove the carbon media out of the canister filter before I dose chemiclean. But when I take out the charcoal/carbon bags should I wash them well after I take them out before I put them back into my filter after the 2-3 days of treatment of chemiclean? My ammonia is 0 and PH is 8.0 and my Nitrite is 0 and Nitrate is 5ppm upon testing right now. I’ve done a few water changes and put lights on for only 2 hours a day instead of the 10 hours before. Can’t wait to see your next 14 videos
The pores in carbon media clogs extremely quickly, so I would suggest swapping it out with new carbon when you're ready to add it back to your system after treatment. Remember that if you have corals, most of them need light to survive, so 2 hours each day might be too extreme. If it's fish only, then the lighting schedule is much more flexible.
@@BRStv THANK you guys sooooo much! I am amped for your new series guys. My tank has had zero issues till this cyano in almost 4 months. I’m new to this hobby. You’d have always been here to help me and it means a lot. I have 4 small clown fish and a small royal gramma and a albino yellow watchman goby (he’s whitish grey for some reason). But like you guys mentioned a month ago for me to do was to use this tank water and filter for new tank. I bought the new Caribsea Araga-Live special grade sand to go into the 75 gallon. But I was also gonna grab a couple scoops of my established sand to add to the new sand for beneficial bacteria. And my tank is just a FOWLR. I think I have it all down correct for my tank upgrade. If there’s anything else I missed feel free to add some info. You guys are gospel bible to me lol. Thank you again so much!
I’m glad you guys brought on Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Still no kits, I just checked the website 10 months later. Please put one together for us newbies.
Before I did a real qt, I had a powder brown tang, and a month later I had it bite me back hard. Never again
I had a fish must carried ick and veltet. Because my new fish would get it. The had a him over 8 months after I learned It lesson learned . I did a deep cleaning and canster filter system of course In the process the new ones got stressed out. So how I'm wondering if it safe to buy fish from that store . No it's not petco. . i.realy get good fish from petco all fish come from the same place
Just saying… but Ryan, you didn’t clip the plugs when you added the frags from WWC to your tank. (We saw, it was on video 😬). Welcome to Team Ich Management!
😆
Yeah, people may want to browse Marine Collector's reviews... Numerous fish health and customer service issues over the last year or two. Between BRS's alliances with Marine Collectors, reef2reef, and UWC I have to wonder if they do any sort of vetting whatsoever of their business partners?
You might want to do business with them instead of reading online reviews from people with an agenda.
stable parameters and well fed tank. Fat fish are better able to shrug off problems
Money! 🎉
Many years of running a successful tank here
Many qt procedures some that killed fish one that killed my tank...here's what i learned, and what worked.
1 all qt tanks are unstable. Use daily water changes from your display(assuming your tank is pristine).
2. bases of coral are the devil. No matter how encrusted remove...and make sure that no unusual growth is with the coral. This is hard to explain but the dreaded snot snail(most not actually bad as they help with sability, but they still suck) can hitchhike below the coral surface. It looks like a horn of coral on the entrusting base.
3. After the plague it hard to get...thanks idiots.. but hydro quinilone works on the big 3. I ran it for 12 days. This represented the longest life cycle of ick, velvet or brisa- whatever its called.))
4. Then 12 days of api general cure. This kills the other diseases. Then they are ready.
Now for coral....i dipped in the insecticide ( dont substitute others will kill coral) we all know then iodine then a quick fresh water rinse. Then observation for a week...observation also means water parameter observation.
I wish i could add a photo so you knew i wasn't just typing to type. This is years of experimentation and heartbreak. Plus a healthy dose of brs. Seriously i never would have made it without you guys. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Great tips and thanks for the kind words 🙂
Awesome
Hi Smelliot! 😂😂 I jokes! U my frend now! 🥰🐶
New dude needs a baseball cap
Goal is double life span than in the wild.
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First
boring
i have killed more fish 🐠 my putting in a quarantine aquarium
Hopefully we can provide enough information for that stat to change going forward.
🤞