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That would be optimal. Consider formalin your backup plan.
Affirmative.
In other news, I woke up this morning with a terrible thought and mild panic attack. In clearing the tank for going fallow, it has totally slipped my mind to check my overflows and sump for fish stragglers. On 2 occasions in the past, I have found small fish chilling inside my 2 Theiling Rollermat boxes that are fed directly from the overflows; so they went over the weirs and swam around in the overflow until they made it to the drain pipe, and it's possible one slipped into the sump before I installed the Rollermats. My overflow boxes are a foot wide and 3 foot deep, so they could definitely house a fish for a good while. I'm not looking forward to trying to find a way to get up there to look into the overflows; I have no access to the back of the tank, the side's are a pain to get to, so I'll try filming with my smartphone to see if I can get clear enough footage to get a definitive answer.
And my sump will be a nightmare as well to fully access; unfortunately I don't have any place for a fish room to fully spread out my equipment for easier maintenance and access, so I'm going to have to remove a lot of equipment in and over the sump as well as live rock to make sure I don't have any stragglers. The sump is 6'x3' and ~150 gallons with a lot of nooks and crannies, so it's possible to have a small resident down there somewhere.
THIS is why everyone should quarantine from the start; if you wait and have to do what I'm doing, there's WAY too much going on and you can make small oversights that could be devastating!!
I'll keep everyone posted, hopefully with a false alarm