Iso tank maintenance

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Iso tank maintenance

Post by Kermie16 » Mon Sep 05, 2016 5:09 pm

Since I recently was able to move all of our post molters to the 55g tank. Our 20 g is still up and running with fan, UTH and bubblers running. Wondering if it would be best just to keep this running as a ready to use iso or take everything down and just keep it all inside ready to go just in case or just get rid of it all as I also have a 10g (what we stared with) but without all the bells and whistles - literally with just sub and UTH and glass top. Suggestions?? Ideally, if needed, I would like to iso in main tank with a KK. But thinking I would need the 20g stuff if anything happened that I would also possibly need to move all hermies into another tank and clean out main tank (like bacterial growth etc). Thoughts, suggestions? Thanks!!

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Re: Iso tank maintenance

Post by LadyJinglyJones » Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:58 am

Have you decided what to do?? I'm also considering keeping an ISO... the pre-established good bacteria would hopefully help to out-compete more potentially harmful stuff... buuuut if the upkeep is a drag, I probably wont bother. :|
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Re: Iso tank maintenance

Post by Kermie16 » Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:58 pm

LadyJinglyJones wrote:Have you decided what to do?? I'm also considering keeping an ISO... the pre-established good bacteria would hopefully help to out-compete more potentially harmful stuff... buuuut if the upkeep is a drag, I probably wont bother. :|
I ended up taking it down to the bare bones. Nothing left in the tank but the sub which I'm letting dry out. I washed all the pools to let dry. The Uth remains attached. I put all the potential ISO stuff in a storage container including the timers and power strip so if I ever need it, I can just pull it out immediately and get it going:)


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Re: Iso tank maintenance

Post by mool » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:25 pm

I have a 20 gallon set up but not running. It is complete, but I would need to hydrate the sub, fill the bowls and heat the air before adding any critters.

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Re: Iso tank maintenance

Post by KayedeeLove<3 » Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:56 pm

My iso is dried out and waiting like mool mentioned above but i just have a beach pail with an uth lol. It looks fun inside for crabbies though :)

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