wilfie

Pardon my stupidity

But are quarantine tanks for sick fish
OR for acclimatizing new fish *?

Marc

Well, they're typically used as a place to put new fish before putting them into your main tank to screen them for diseases.

Jason

New fish and diseased fish or breeding fish or fry

wilfie

Thanx for your replies : :

chickadee

I have used mine both ways, but if I use it for a sick fish I am very careful to sterilize it when I am done with it. (the one time I had a sick fish in it, he had dropsy and died)

Right now the tank I was using as a quarantine tank is being pressed into service as a main tank because the vase (3 gallon) that I had my Betta in broke suddenly. Thank goodness I had another tank up and running as I couldn't have had 2 male Crowntails in one tank!

Rose

0morrokh

Q tanks are originally used to quarintine new fish before adding them to your tank, but after that the Q tank can double as a hospital tank for sick fish, to avoid having to treat the entire main tank, or even as a fry raising tank.