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Marc
26th April 2007, 10:27 PM
How many of us actually have a setup and running hospital tank?

I have a spare tank that I use for temporarily storing fish / quarantining etc, that I guess if I had the need to I could add salt for salt batheing http://www.thefishtank.com.au/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

It&#39;s just a small 2 footer with an Eheim Classic canister and an air driven sponge.
leongross
26th April 2007, 10:46 PM
We had a hospital tank, both to add new fish to our setups and to treat individual sickheads. Was very useful&#33; Fish always seemed to sulk a lot in there though&#33; Needed a lot of water changes... Useful when treating with heavy antibiotics and don&#39;t want to damage the bacteria in your filter.
Marc
26th April 2007, 10:54 PM
Was that tank for your marine or freshwater fish?

What ratio of salt did you use (if for freshwater) ?
leongross
27th April 2007, 09:46 AM
It was for the freshwater fish, whenever we had a sick fish we&#39;d set it up quickly using water straight from the main tank and put the sick fish into it. Can&#39;t remember how much salt was added as Heather usually did that but I think she added a bit extra (of course without turning it into a marine tank&#33;). The sick fish was duly put into it, we had already an extra heater and filter for it. Was about a 20L tank and had some plastic plants so they could hide. No light to keep them somewhat subdued. It is easier to treat a fish in a small tank as you don&#39;t have to treat all the fish (cheaper on medicine too).

But you have to be quick, becuase if you don&#39;t spot the sickhead soon enough, other fish may catch whatever it is.

As a quarantine tank, we used it at first but it was too much of a hassle after a while, often if you buy good quality fish from a decent store, you wont have to many troubles.
Marc
27th April 2007, 10:26 AM
Thanks Leon.

I&#39;ll start a new thread about salt ratio&#39;s for Hospital Tanks http://www.thefishtank.com.au/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Sloory
2nd May 2007, 10:04 PM
I had a 2ft hospital tank, though before i packed it up it kind of turned into the feeder fish storage tank http://www.thefishtank.com.au/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif . no fish i had acually ever got sick so i didn&#39;t even get to test it out http://www.thefishtank.com.au/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif .