What do you keep in your quarantine tank?

Well, my q-tanks are 4.5 & 5 gallon tanks because I generally only get 1 or 2 fish at a time and they are small. I don't keep anything in them besides filter and heater. But if they get nervous I add fake and floating plants.
 
I just recently (like in the past couple of days) started up a 10 gallon for quarantine. I'm in the process of cycling so it'll be a few weeks before it's ready or to a point where things are stable. I have some of the main tank gravel and some plastic plants.

(EDIT: filter & heater too of course)
 
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I have a 10 gallon that I pretty much keep empty. If I need to put fish in it, I'll grab a couple of live plants and throw them in so the fish has some shelter.
 
I have a 5g and a 20g. I put in a AC filter and heater. I decorate withwahtever i have around usually pots, plastic plants, rocks. I keep it dry unless i need it.Then i jsut fill it up the day before and let the temp stablize. I don't cycle it, I jsut add a bag full of gravel from another tank and since its a Q tank or fry tnak water chagnes are done often enough that cycling isn't a problem(plus some meds kill your cycle anyways)
 
Mine are 10 gallon tanks. For a while there years back I kept adding new 10 gallon Qtanks as things got too interesting in the ones that were up-and-running. Can't do that forever in an apartment eh.

I'm a snob about plastic plants. (Besides, I hear they're very difficult maintenance.) My Qtanks have plants growing on bits of coconut shell, wood or small rocks ('plants on casters'). If it's time to medicate, they can all be removed.

A good idea in show tanks too, when you want to prune the scungy leaves out of the old Bolbitis you know...
 
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