what kind of fish do you all recommend for a 10g quarantine tank. I was thinking probably danios, but what else do you guys have? Also, would I need to buy proper schooling numbers for schooling fish? Thanks!
recommendations for quarantine
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Am I reading this right, you want to put fish in your quarentine tank?
Thats fine but what are you going to do when you need to quarentine fish, just asking? How about a D/puffer that would be fine, but thats only one fish, if you want schooling fish theres always neon's.
Thats fine but what are you going to do when you need to quarentine fish, just asking? How about a D/puffer that would be fine, but thats only one fish, if you want schooling fish theres always neon's.
Think you might have the wrong idea of how to keep a q tank ready.
Ingnore me if I'm wrong but I'm guessing you want to have permanent residents in your Q tank in order to keep it cycled. If that's the case then there are better ways off going about it. Like Ashdavid say's, when you need to quarentine a potentially diseased fish, what are you going to do with the Danios already in there?
In order to keep the filter media of a q tank ready with enough bacteria for when the tank is needed, the best thing to do is to store the media in any spare space you might have inside one of the filters you have running on a rugular tank.
HTH
Ingnore me if I'm wrong but I'm guessing you want to have permanent residents in your Q tank in order to keep it cycled. If that's the case then there are better ways off going about it. Like Ashdavid say's, when you need to quarentine a potentially diseased fish, what are you going to do with the Danios already in there?
In order to keep the filter media of a q tank ready with enough bacteria for when the tank is needed, the best thing to do is to store the media in any spare space you might have inside one of the filters you have running on a rugular tank.
HTH
I see... I see... Im glad I posted before I hit the fish store. Luckily, for me, my filter media is much smaller than the media in my other tanks. 
What kind of tank is it where you keep a few hardy fish in it to keep up the bio-load, you know, for new arrivals and sick fish? Or do you keep two tanks for stuff like that...wow now Im really confused.
What kind of tank is it where you keep a few hardy fish in it to keep up the bio-load, you know, for new arrivals and sick fish? Or do you keep two tanks for stuff like that...wow now Im really confused.
Chances are, what you are referring to is just still a QT tank, but one that you can keep running all the time, instead of just when you need it. Theoretically, you could have a tank that could be set up at a moments notice with spare media for a sick fish ( a hospital tank ). And you could have a tank you leave up and running all the time with some hardy fish where you keep new arrivals for 2+ weeks, but then if the new fish get sick you've exposed the regular fish from that tank to the disease and would have to treat the whole tank anyway. :sick: .... which in turn kind of elimates a hospital tank in the first place!!
Your best bet is to just buy a cheap 10g tank and only set it up for new fish or to QT sick fish. Not to say you couldn't just get another tank and buy a QT tank as a third tank.... :thm:
Your best bet is to just buy a cheap 10g tank and only set it up for new fish or to QT sick fish. Not to say you couldn't just get another tank and buy a QT tank as a third tank.... :thm: