Does anyone actaully have a recovery tank?

[wwestar2000]

Do people actaully have a tank that is filtured and heated that has nothing in it to keep your fish in it when they get sick?

 

[BigC]

Every serious aquarist worth his/her salt should have a hospital tank for isolation purposes. It doesen't have to be very large either.

 

[Teelie]

I sometimes do but since it's so rare I get fish, I don't usually have one set up. I have a makeshift orange tub I sometimes use to quarantine new fish but at the moment it's used for storing spare parts.

 

[Annastasia]

Yep, I do. I always have a 10 gallon set up to use as a hospital tank, and I use it as a quarantine tank too. Thankfully I've never had a sick fish at the same time I was quarantining a fish...but I'm considering getting another just in case.

It's very useful though.

Edit: Forgot to add, I keep the filters running in my cycled tanks, and some of the decorations too. Then I just stick them in, and I have a cycled tank for the sick fish, or the fish that needs qurantining.

 

[IMCL85]

I have a 10g for hospital.

 

[jacblades]

i have a sick tank and a quarantine tank. both 10 gals

 

[smithrc]

We have a 3gal that is normally setup. No one in it now though as the betta with fin rot is looking good back in the usual tank

I'll empty the tank an pack the heater - but the filter will be put in a different tank to keep it 'alive'

 

[Dwarfs]

I have a few 10g tanks for either new fish to be quarantined in, or sick fish to be healed/separated in. IMO, every aqarist should have a spare tank ready for new fish or sick ones

 

[Tolak]

Running a tank with no fish & a filter gives you an uncycled tank. Put anything but some hardy livebearers or danios in there & you will probably have problems.

I keep extra filters running on most all of my tanks, and have an extra 28, 20, & a couple of 10's empty, along with spare heaters. I could set one of these up in 20 minuites.

I also keep a 10 with chlorinated water,an airstone, & a heater at the same temp as the rest of my tanks. If anything needs immediate attention, or I get a phone call at work from a family member, a squirt of dechlor & toss in the fish.

Tolak

 

[Angry_Platy]

I have the 10gal and the 5gal which can be used as quar/sick tanks. At the moment I have no sick fish so the 5gal is empty however the 10gal is currently housing 3 guppies, a swordy and a platy (new fish).....they are soon to be moved to make way for my pregnant swordy girl (due any day now)....

The filters are the same as 3 of my other filters so all I do is cut down the filter media slightly and move it across to the quar/sick tank.

 

[Bloo]

Yes I do - but it's not as such a tank that's ready and waiting. It's an empty tank with filter full time running in mature tank. What's the point of running a filter in an empty tank with no bacteria to keep it going ? that's like an uncycled tank.
And I have a spare heater.
A must have and very useful to have a quarantine / hospital tank.

 

[ajhainey]

I have two Gives some flexibility with quarantine, sick and recovery stages. Besides I always seem to get two different problems at once and mixing meds is a BAD plan! Ones a pretty teeny 25litre and ones a 60 litre I think.

They also come into service as "which one of you is it thats picking on everybody" diagnosis tanks and "ah I feel sorry for the molly fry that have actually managed to survive a couple of days in the main tank lets give em half a chance" tank

They don't run all the time - if I need one I half and half the water with tank/fresh - grab a bit of gravel or sponge as bacteria 'seed' and start it up.

aj x

 

[jollysue]

How long does a running tank with everything in it but fish, that has had fish, stay cycled. I've been told to add a little pinch of fish food. No good huh?
:stupid:

I keep at least one extra running. Usually it doesn't stay empty long, because it is also a quarantine.

 

[Avinitlarge]

We have one, At the momment its looking very grim after the recent loss of the guppies etc. Need to get it cleaned out and ready for any other problems, Which, Touch would wont happen

 

[Ben]

i have a 25 gal

I go by the rule that the hospital tank should be big enough to hold your biggest fish

DD