Final Answer: 40B!

[Chew_Magna]

How long does it take to acclimate them to salt, say, from the pet store's freshwater?

I've had a few mollies in my reef tanks before. No acclimation, literally net them from one and throw them in the other. They could care less. I've gone full fresh to full salt like that and brackish to full salt and back to brackish.

 

Honey badger don't give a shit.

[jedimasterben]

They live in estuaries, where the salinity changes so rapidly it'll make your head spin.

[llama roadkill]

I've had a few mollies in my reef tanks before. No acclimation, literally net them from one and throw them in the other. They could care less. I've gone full fresh to full salt like that and brackish to full salt and back to brackish. Honey badger don't give a shit.

 

What do you guys recommend for QT? 1 week and if no symptoms of disease put into DT and if there are symptoms of disease treat until they clear up and wait 1-2 weeks?

 

They live in estuaries, where the salinity changes so rapidly it'll make your head spin.

Wow, didn't know that about them. That and a firefish would be nice starters.

 

Except that I'll have to feed them Nori or another algae supplement.

[jedimasterben]

Three to six weeks. All fish need to be treated for internal parasites, then external parasites, then anything else if need be.

[llama roadkill]

Three to six weeks. All fish need to be treated for internal parasites, then external parasites, then anything else if need be.

What meds would you recommend? Should I QT corals and inverts or just dip the corals and inspect invert's shell if they have one?

[jedimasterben]

Prazipro, chloroquine phosphate, and then others as needed based on the specific illness. Meds don't keep, so you can't really buy them in advance.

 

 

I don't QT corals or inverts, but remember that if you don't, then you could be introducing things that you don't want.

[llama roadkill]

Prazipro, chloroquine phosphate, and then others as needed based on the specific illness. Meds don't keep, so you can't really buy them in advance.

 

 

I don't QT corals or inverts, but remember that if you don't, then you could be introducing things that you don't want.

 

Should I keep the corals in the QT for a day or two just to inspect it?

[Tamberav]

Should I keep the corals in the QT for a day or two just to inspect it?

 

Just manually inspect it, dip it for pests, and dump it in your DT and get bubble algae, apstia, dino, bryopsis like the rest of us. There can be nothing on the frag but it will show up from spores, ect anyways. One day in QT won't do anything.

 

My perfectly clean maxima clam had all sorts of crazy types of hitchhiker algae growing off its shell a month later.

[llama roadkill]

Just manually inspect it, dip it for pests, and dump it in your DT and get bubble algae, apstia, dino, bryopsis like the rest of us. There can be nothing on the frag but it will show up from spores, ect anyways. One day in QT won't do anything.

 

My perfectly clean maxima clam had all sorts of crazy types of hitchhiker algae growing off its shell a month later.

 

[Tamberav]

 

 

Just manually inspect it, dip it for pests, and dump it in your DT and get bubble algae, apstia, dino, bryopsis like the rest of us. There can be nothing on the frag but it will show up from spores, ect anyways. One day in QT won't do anything.

 

My perfectly clean maxima clam had all sorts of crazy types of hitchhiker algae growing off its shell a month later.

 

 

[llama roadkill]

 

[Blubbernaut]

 

 

LEE DA LEE DA LEEE!!!

[Tamberav]

Man mollys get huge. I should get some and feed them to Ivy when they get too big for my taste.

[llama roadkill]

LEE DA LEE DA LEEE!!!

 

I believe it's pronounced LEEDLE LEEDLE LEEDLE LEE. Study it.

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M8fvsbQmxZw

 

Man mollys get huge. I should get some and feed them to Ivy when they get too big for my taste.

 

Ya, they get like 6 inches, and WTF?

[Tamberav]

Wtf.. 10 hours?

[llama roadkill]

Wtf.. 10 hours?

I know. Not long enough, needs to be wumbo.

[Blubbernaut]

I believe it's pronounced LEEDLE LEEDLE LEEDLE LEE. Study it.

YES, MA'AM SIR!!!

On the topic of mollys, I'd be willing for you to send a few over here. Prolly good shark bait

[llama roadkill]

YES, MA'AM SIR!!! ;)On the topic of mollys, I'd be willing for you to send a few over here. Prolly good shark bait

YOU WILL NOT CALL ME MA'AM MA'AM!

 

How do you guys feel about 50/50 LR and Dry Rock.

[Chris!]

Should I keep the corals in the QT for a day or two just to inspect it?

 

If you are going to use copper or several other meds you will want a separate coral QT if your going to qt corals at all....

[llama roadkill]

If you are going to use copper or several other meds you will want a separate coral QT if your going to qt corals at all....

 

That can't be done. 1 QT period. Not my rules.

[Chris!]

That can't be done. 1 QT period. Not my rules.

 

Then decide which is more important to you to QT.... or you could get a bigger QT and split it in half, still technically 1 qt tank.... its not breaking the rules, just adjusting them to work more effectively

[llama roadkill]

Then decide which is more important to you to QT.... or you could get a bigger QT and split it in half, still technically 1 qt tank.... its not breaking the rules, just adjusting them to work more effectively

 

Hmm...maybe a 20L with a panel of glass or something inbetween? What about filtration? Two filters?

[Chris!]

Hmm...maybe a 20L with a panel of glass or something inbetween? What about filtration? Two filters?

 

Yeah that would work. Yup, you would need 2 separate filters (atleast if you wanted to be able to QT fish and coral at the same time) because you need to keep the water 100% separate.... but filters aren't that much, if you had to you wouldn't even need to get them at the same time.

[llama roadkill]

Yeah that would work. Yup, you would need 2 separate filters (atleast if you wanted to be able to QT fish and coral at the same time) because you need to keep the water 100% separate.... but filters aren't that much, if you had to you wouldn't even need to get them at the same time.

 

What do you mean?

 

I will be insta cycling the tank with filter media from my 10.

[Chris!]

What do you mean? I will be insta cycling the tank with filter media from my 10.

 

What part don't you understand? lol

 

a 20l with a piece of glass splitting it into 2 separate areas would work.

 

You would need a filter for each side if you wanted to be able to QT fish and corals at the same time (fish on one side, corals on the other....)

 

Filters aren't very expensive, but you wouldn't really need to buy them both at the same time (you just couldn't QT both fish and coral at the same time if you didn't have them both already).