Help with my Quarantine Tank

I should mention the only problem with inverts in a quarantine tank is they don't do well with some meds. So if it's some snails you don't much care about, that's fine. But the danger is if they suddenly die from a treatment, the water can really go bad fast.

Marv
 
Can't you just empty the tank and store it away after you finish? I've just bought one myself and this is what I'm planning to do.
Apparently you can prepare it in matter of hours (just a bit of matter from the main tank, I've used one of the sponges of my main filter for the QT filter, but you can also get an handful of gravel from the main tank).
I set up mine Friday night add 6 fish Saturday morning and measured 0 ammonia/nitrites and 15 nitrates Sunday morning and the fish look really happy... surprising but seems to be working.
If so little worked to cycle the almost 15 gal QT now I'm wondering why all these advises of avoiding deep hoovering the gravel and clean the filter at the same time.....
 
I keep my QT tank in my closet empty on a shelf when it is not in use. I keep the filter for the QT tank running on my 46 gal tank to keep it cycled.

Normally if I'm adding to an established tank with fish already present, I tend to QT for 4-6 weeks before adding to my tank.
 
Keeping a extra filter on another tank is the easiest way to have a cyled filter,then get the tank out when you need it and put the filter on.
If you ever have to use it for sick fish,some meds will kill off the benefical bacteria,FYI.
 
We just have extra filter media and we pull some out of another tank's filter when we need to use a QT tank :)
 
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