How many really QT?

I was just wondering how many people really QT their corals?
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I can speak from experience that getting pests in your display sucks. I've learned to QT all corals for at least 21 days before they go into my display no matter what coral it is.

This was only two years ago

whhaaa happen?


I don't QT cause i don't have room for a QT. I dip tho. In the future i plan to set up a Qt tank

I broke down my tank and had to QT everything after getting AEFW on a zoa frag. I used to think that I did not have the room, but imo, you could always find room for a 10-20 gallon QT set up rather than having to go through the crap I went through

Dipping is good, but does NOTHING for eggs. Thats like wearing a condom but cutting off the tip

This was day 1 of my having to treat my tank

mpoletti wrote:

Thats like wearing a condom but cutting off the tip

whats a condom?

so thats your QT tank? You took all your corals out of your display and treated them in a seperate tank?? explain please

DBarsotti wrote:

so thats your QT tank? You took all your corals out of your display and treated them in a seperate tank?? explain please

That was a tank I set up to treat all of my acros when I went through my AEFW battle a few years back. I removed them, dipped them, cut off all bases, dipped again 4 times over the next 6-7 weeks and put them back in my display without any bugs.

That tank is long gone, but that is why I set up my now QT/frag tank

I don't but like most know that I probably should.

Do you treat the QT tank with FlatWorm Exit, Interceptor, etc?

Flatworm Exit? For what?

I treat both tanks with interceptor from time to time

To kill those other ugly flatworms

If you dip before they do into the tank and if you carefully inspect each coral before placing them into the QT tank, you should be good, but thats just me. If I did ever have them, nothing a $10 wrasse wouldn't fix

*sets up QT*

i havent but i will soon... a big reason for my new prop tank i wanted to do it before i had colonies and a problem arose..... right now i have mostly frags so it is easy to check them but i feel ya 100% on this..... it also was what made me keep that prop system seperate from my display.....

mpoletti wrote:

I broke down my tank and had to QT everything after getting AEFW on a zoa frag. I used to think that I did not have the room, but imo, you could always find room for a 10-20 gallon QT set up rather than having to go through the crap I went through

Dipping is good, but does NOTHING for eggs. Thats like wearing a condom but cutting off the tip

so you actually took the tank down and started with all new rock etc??? or you just ran the tank acro free for 6 weeks??? interesting......

Acro free... I did remove some of the heavily encrusted rocks. You have to cut off their food source and starve them out.

currently i just dip, but will be setting up a QT very soon!