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Originally Posted by MikeM
Koimystic: I am not familiar with that filter, so I'll defer to others who are. However, I am concerned that by adding plants to your QT you are really creating an over-sized barrel garden, not a QT. A quarantine tank should be designed to give perfect water conditions for new arrivals and be easily treated in the event some health issue arises. That means: No organics in the QT, no gravel, no soil. The filter media should be active at all times, which can be accomplished by maintaining some sacrificial goldfish in the QT when it is not housing koi, or by keeping the filter media in a portion of your main pond's filter system. A QT is a purely utilitarian set of equipment. You can hide it behind some screening, but don't beautify it into a watergarden... it defeats your purpose.