Live plants in a quarantine tank

[swbrenneis]

Hello everyone. I hope you're having a nice Sunday.
I'm wondering what opinions are on putting live plants in a quarantine tank. I have a 10 gallon tank where I am quarantining two veiled angels and two blue rams. The tank is bare bottom with a couple of PVC fittings for hiding places. I have hornwort in their eventual home and it grows like crazy. I have to trim it back a couple of times per week. I was thinking of putting a couple of the clippings in the quarantine tank to make the rams feel a little more at home and to help buffer the nutrients. I would just throw the clippings away when the quarantine is done.
What do you think?

 

[Naughts]

Great idea
I always do this to help the fish feel secure and to absorb some nutrients.

 

[MattW]

I have floating hornwort in my fry tank and it works wonders. Great for dumping eggs into and hiding areas for frys. I don't see why it should be a problem in a quarantine tank

 

[Essjay]

When I quarantine fish I always buy a couple of bunches of elodea (anacharis) at the same time and leave it floating. It's cheap enough to be thrown away at the end of quarantine. Hornwort trimming are a great idea.

 

[GaryE]

You lose the plants if a disease pops up during QT, but you've planned for that. I always use plants in quarantine. Stress kills fish, and the goal of QT isn't to bring out any problems the fish have, but to get them through healthy enough they are safe to put in the community.

Now stress. That is a severely overcrowded quarantine tank. Watch it very closely and keep on the water changes.

 

[swbrenneis]

You lose the plants if a disease pops up during QT, but you've planned for that. I always use plants in quarantine. Stress kills fish, and the goal of QT isn't to bring out any problems the fish have, but to get them through healthy enough they are safe to put in the community.

Now stress. That is a severely overcrowded quarantine tank. Watch it very closely and keep on the water changes.

The fish are small. The rams are about 3/4 inch and the angels are about 1 1/2 inch. I'm doing big water changes every couple of days. 50%.

 

[Colin_T]

You should have a thin layer of substrate in the tank to make the fish feel more comfortable. Make sure there is a picture on the back too.

Plants are fine in a quarantine tank.