how much air?

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I have a ten gallon tank and a one gallon hospital tank and im wondering how much air needs to be in the water for the fish to breathe? Does anybody know how to set up a really good hospital tank? and when fish get diseases is it in the water if they died in that water? do i need to completely empty the tank and let it dry out if so?
with the hospital tank what all needs to go in it ?
 
just get a spounge filter and have it running in the 10 also and then when you need the hospital tank all you need to do is transfer the spounge and add water and you shouldn't even get a cycle. And the spounge will also act like a air stone, well kinda.
In the ten as long as you have surface movement then you don't need an air stone.
 
The air is dissolved in the water. As long as there is some surface movement on the water (from a filter or something similar) there will be enough air in the water. Weeekly water changes will remove contaminants in the water and that will help as well.

As for setting up a good hospital tank. I like to keep some extra filter material in my regular filters (filter floss or a piece of filter sponge). Then I move that over to my hospital tank filter. That instantly cycles the tank and prepares it for fish.

As for diseases being in the water? Well it depends on the disease. Some like ich will remain in the water but after a few weeks without a host it should all be gone. Other diseases may last longer or shorter periods of time. If there are no fish in the tank you can either take it apart and clean it with bleach (make sure to rinse well and add dechlorinator to neutralize the bleach) or leave it setup and running for awhile. If you don't know what killed your fish then I would suggest taking it apart and cleaning it and then trying a fishless cycle to restart things. Read the stickies in this forum if you want to know about cycling a tank.
 
Thanks you guys! well i dont know what u mean about the sponge filter in the ten gallon and then putting it in the 1 gallon. What if i need to hospitalize just one fish? wouldnt that kill the other fish in the ten gallon? the disease is bacterial internal infections including bleeding and bloating. would that kind be in the water? with the hospital tank, does it only need to be set up when a fish is sick? or would it be better to have it set up all the time, with a permanent filter? :) thanks a bunch!
 
What we are saying is that you can add some extra sponge or other filter material into your 10 gallon tanks filter, or else run a second filter if that seems possible. Then if you need the hospital tank all you have to do is move over some filter material to the 1 gallon. That won't hurt the 10 gallon at all and it instantly cycles the smaller tank.
 
Ok, now i c what u mean. I havent bought any kind of a filter for the one gallon, so what kind do i need to buy to work with the sponge? Thanks for the great tip! Also im kinda new at this and im wondering if there is anything else, besides the ammonia cycle, thats really important that i need to know. I really appreciate your help.
 
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