To QT or not or ....?

So hear goes...

Have a QT tank set up.
Kuhlis in it. All seem ok so far. I have them in a recently cycled QT tank. There were 6 small cherry barbs in it before them. Barbs moved on to home tank. This QT tank had 5-10?ppm Nitrates as of today.

I cycled it w filter material from future home tank AND Tetra Safe Start plus.

We also have new snails.... here comes the question...

Snails - 4 koopas 1 pagoda

The plan was QT all incoming so if trouble w incoming would see /help before moving to home tank.

But that being said the new QT tank has no algae? So I was thinking maybe better put them direct in home tank which has Tons of algae? And needs help! Thoughts?

Also, how many snails per gallons? Considering 1-2 of the koopas go with a zebra nerite in 18 g tank. Debating....

 

If you put them in the QT I would supplement their diet with algae wafers

 

you can feed the snails in the QT tank something other than algae like fresh veetables.

 

Yes. That's what I was thinking. It's just... that other tank so desperately needs help...

 

They say 2 snails per every 10 gallons of water but am not 100% on that.
Throw some blanched veggies in q.t for them,they will be fine

 

Also, with QT being newly cylced...worried about extra bioload...?

 

So again maybe moving them onto 20g is better - while Kuhlies adjust w QT?

 

QT isn’t necessary if you feel the other tank needs them I say go for it. I’ve never experienced disease with snails and they can’t spread it to fish so they’re relatively safe.

 

I think the chances of the snails having a disease that can be passed to your fish is low. It's more probable they have a parasite that could infect the fish, but they would probably be very hard to detect even in a QT. So if you want to put them in the tank, I say go for it. If sufficient food is available I think you can have significantly more than two snails per ten gallons, as long as you do it gradually. I have 8 nerites and 6 mystery snails in a 10 gallon with cherry shrimp and 8 neon tetras. They are very active, always laying eggs.

 

Hmm... thanks all! Thinking I wil split the difference. 2 in QT the other 3 in home tank. 1 in QT moving to another tank...other is being extra shy? So maybe concerning. Will see.

 

Most of the old timers on here would tell you there’s no need to QT snails, they don’t carry things that can infect fish. That’s also what I found on other websites. I QT my fish, but the snails go right in!

 

Thank you! Going ti move those other two right along, but will let it go a bit since they are already in QT for the moment.

 

Unless the snails were previously kept with parasitized fish, they won't have anything to infect your fish with! The first stage in the life cycle of a lot of aquatic parasitic worms is bottom feeders, but they'd have to exist in significant numbers in fish in the same tank first (or if they were wild, which I doubt) to infect the snails via dropping eggs in poo that the snails then consume

 

I think technically the water on the snail could be harboring something, albeit unlikely. Even though I quarantine fish I never did in the past for snails. It sounds silly but I just rinsed them off with some tank water and plop haha

With that said, I was about to buy some nerites from a store with questionable water and was considering quarantining them for a bit myself.

 

I think technically the water on the snail could be harboring something, albeit unlikely. Even though I quarantine fish I never did in the past for snails. It sounds silly but I just rinsed them off with some tank water and plop haha

With that said, I was about to buy some nerites from a store with questionable water and was considering quarantining them for a bit myself.

Id say that's equivalent to buying fish/inverts online, since you have no idea what the waters like in that case haha