The Puffer Forum

Just remember to have some fishes to keep the bacterial in the hospital tank if u wish to keep it cycled. Hooray for the new tank!

would just addinga few drops of ammonia a day work? i was planning on just doing that

erm.. Wouldn't it be easier to just keep some things in there? Breed snails maybe?

Cheeto wrote:would just addinga few drops of ammonia a day work? i was planning on just doing that

+1

Or, just run the intended filter for the hospital tank in the main tank? So when required, just set up using the main tank water and move that filter over. U can save the space for the tank and the ammonia..

Perfect!

Likely though, if one fish gets sick, both will because they live in the same conditions/environment.

So a hospital is always a great thing to have, but you will probably have to treat both fish in the end.

i have 2 aquaclear 30's on the one 20g and have another empty 20g so if i keep adding ammonia to 4-5ppm daily should be able to just take one for each 20g if i ever need to medicate id rather medicate 2 20g than a 75g

It just seems strange to me to keep a tank running with nothing in it..

I bet in another month or 2 u will get another new friend in it!

Like previously stated, if you keep an extra filter running on an established tank, you can easily & quickly set up a hosp. tank for use. We had a great QT article by RTR in the Library, I'll see if we can get that posted again.