Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Just read about flashing in the magazine.

Is this why some people use a quarantine tank for their fish prior to adding them into the already set up system?

If you have expensive fish or lots of fish and you dont want to risk introducing a disease when adding new fish to your tank it is an idea to have a quarantine tank you can put the new comers in to and observe them for a day or two before adding them to your primary tank.

The other advantage a quarantine tanks gives you is the ability to salt it higher than you could with plants. Some plants, particularly strawberrys dont like lots of salt (I think 3ppm is their max) so with a bad case of something you can put the infected fish into the quarantine tank with more salt than the plants in your AP system can handle.

Sometimes the shock of taking a fish out of lowly salted water, placing it in highly salted water for 15 minutes and putting it back in the lowly salted water is enough to get rid of some infections (or so I have read).

For those of us that are stuck on imperial units, it looks like 1kg/1000 liters is equal to about 1.66 lbs / 100 gallons.