Hospital Tank

[Airjammer]

My wifeand I are getting more and more into this hobby,and it's time to set up a hospital/quarantine tank. I have a spare 10 gallon sitting around that wouldnt take much to set up.
I guess my question is, do ya'll keep anything in these tanks all of the time, or does it just sit around with nothing in it? I was thinking of doing a shrimp or crayfish tank.
Thanks for any comments or advice.

[CichlidFan]

Re: Hospital Tank

No, I usually set up on ahead of time if possible. I'll take 10 gallons from one of my 135's and add a heater and salt and go from there.

CF

[imagirlgeek]

Re: Hospital Tank

We let ours sit dry until it's time to use it, then pull 50% water from the existing tank and add new water to fill it up the rest of the way.  Then we have a small HOB filter running on another tank that we just pull off and put on the hospital tank.

[PhishPhreek]

Re: Hospital Tank

for new fish, I use a bare tank with makeup water (55g barrel of filtered water treated with amquel+, sea salt, almond leaves & now vitimin C)
with a sponge filter & java moss from an existing tank.   My fishroom is always at 82 deg.

For sick fish, I use the smallest tank I have w/ a HOB filter w/o charcoal and no java moss and
clean the tank & filter with bleach when I loose the fish.