2 Gallon Fluval Spec... QT tank?

[maxwellag]

I was wondering if a Fluval Spec 2 gallon tank would be big enough to use as a quarantine tank. When I buy fish for my new tank I will quarantine them for a week before adding them. If they are sick, however long it takes. The tank I am getting is a 36 gallon bow front, and the largest fish I will be getting for it is angels.
Thank You

 

[siva]

No. You're going to need atleast a 10 gal, depending on the size of angels at the time of QT.

 

[maxwellag]

No. You're going to need atleast a 10 gal, depending on the size of angels at the time of QT.

If I didn't quarantine the angels would it be big enough? The other fish I will add are glofish, German blue rams, and (possibly) bristlenose plecos. But if course I wouldn't qt the plecos. Lol

 

[siva]

Why not QT the plecos? No...waaaaaay too small for those fish. All need a 10 gal minimum for QT. Personally I'd use a 20, but I think you can get away with a 10.

 

[maxwellag]

Why not QT the plecos? No...waaaaaay too small for those fish. All need a 10 gal minimum for QT. Personally I'd use a 20, but I think you can get away with a 10.

Because the 36 gallon bow front tank is supposed to be my last tank... So I can't get any more tanks. My mom said so. Haha. But she doesn't really care if I get a small tank like up to 5 gallons

 

[siva]

At Petco a 10 gal tank is 12.99 and a 5 gal is 13.99. Atleast in my store. Explain to your mom it's actually a buck cheaper to get the 10 gal, and you'll only need to have the tank up during the QT period.

 

[maxwellag]

At Petco a 10 gal tank is 12.99 and a 5 gal is 13.99. Atleast in my store. Explain to your mom it's actually a buck cheaper to get the 10 gal, and you'll only need to have the tank up during the QT period.

What about a big bucket I have? I have no idea how many gallons but I can find out
EDIT: yes, I have a filter ( a HOB 90gph one) that I can stick on it and transfer some biomedia from my ten gallon. The bucket is square shaped...

 

[bruinsbro1997]

Buckets can work.

To find out how many gallons, you can usually take a milk jug or something that's a gallon, and fill it up until it's full. Amount of times you filled it up with the milk jug full=gallons.

 

[maxwellag]

I think it is around 8 gallons... ill fill it up and confirm it when I get home

 

[maxwellag]

I just checked and it is only 5.3 gallons... my mom will not let me get ANY other tank, after I get the 36 gallon bow front

 

[siva]

OK other options:

A plastic storage bin.

What other tanks do you have? Maybe their residents can go in the 36 while you use their tank as a QT...

Buy fish from reputable sellers that QT their fish before selling them. Not saying you still aren't taking a risk, but far less than grabbing fish from just any lfs and throwing them in there.

 

[maxwellag]

OK other options:

A plastic storage bin.

What other tanks do you have? Maybe their residents can go in the 36 while you use their tank as a QT...

Buy fish from reputable sellers that QT their fish before selling them. Not saying you still aren't taking a risk, but far less than grabbing fish from just any lfs and throwing them in there.

Ten gallon community with mostly guppies and corys... I could transfer biomedia to the 36 gallon... but I want my ten gallon to be a display tank. Is it possible to have plants in a qt tank?

 

[siva]

I wouldn't put plants in a QT, no. If you do, you'd want to choose something that wouldn't be sensitive to heat and salt, in the event you'd have to use them. Some meds can hurt plants as well. I typically have something like anacharis in there, which grows like crazy in all of my tanks, so if I lose some it's no big deal, but I wouldn't put a plant I had paid for in.

I would put the cories and guppies in the 36 while you use the 10 as a QT and then once you've stocked the 36 transfer them back to the 10 and set it back up as your DT. In the future you wouldn't have a hospital tank or a QT for any new additions, so that's something you'd have to deal with eventually.

 

[maxwellag]

So I will use my ten gallon to quarantine. But I might have some issues when I add my rams or angels. I can't have angels with fish smaller than an inch (a lot of my guppies) and I have to get my rams last because they're the most sensitive. Lol that sounds like one of those brain teaser problems!

 

[maxwellag]

Good news! My mom just told me that her friend said she could have their twenty gallon tank..... so I might upgrade my ten to a twenty, and use my ten gallon as a quarantine tank.

 

[severum mama]

Good news! My mom just told me that her friend said she could have their twenty gallon tank..... so I might upgrade my ten to a twenty, and use my ten gallon as a quarantine tank.

That would be a much better idea than the Fluval spec. The spec would make a cool shrimp tank, though.

 

[maxwellag]

That would be a much better idea than the Fluval spec. The spec would make a cool shrimp tank, though.

I told my brother that while we were at the lfs. He said he wants to put his betta in it. It is better because it has twice the space and a filter, but it is still pretty small. I told him a five gallon would be best but I think he really likes the spec.

 

[siva]

Well the spec would be better than a 1 gal...I guess..if those are the choices. I would put the betta in the spec for now and then give him the 10 when you are done with it as a QT.

 

[maxwellag]

My mom's friend might've thrown away the 20 gallon... uh oh

 

[maxwellag]

They threw it away. I will just go to petsmart and get a ten gallon/tank and filter