Fish Deadpool (QT vs Display)

[Jon Fishman]

Simple concept.....

If you Quarantine state how many fish you have had die IN QT

For anyone who does, or does not QT, state how many fish have died in your display tank, whether they had been quarantined or not.

A few caveats to this:

Don’t count the following fish deaths:

Equipment failures nuking tank, jumpers, killer mantis shrimp, your cat ate it, fish-on-fish murder, carpet nem gobbled it up. etc.

Looking for things like disease, unknown causes (just started laying on the bottom one day etc) death shortly after acclimation etc.


Fish ultimately stay years in display tanks, and some people quarantine “known sick” fish they buy cheap etc, so I know these things affect the numbers.

Fish that become sick, and are removed to a hospital tank, count towards display-deaths.

I have had 1 display death, I have not quarantined

 

[jx fang]

Also very important questions.
How old is the tank?
How many fish do you have in your display tank?
What kind of fish?
If you only keep hardy fishes, quarantine is not necessary.

 

[lpsouth1978]

I have had too many tanks over the years to give accurate numbers, but I have had VERY few fish die of disease n my DT's, and I DO NOT QT. Most of my fish deaths have been due to anemones, jumpers, bullies, etc.

On the flip side, when I did try QT, I lost almost every fish I QT'd. It may have been something I was doing wrong, but I simply couldn't get fish through the QT process.

 

[Jon Fishman]

Also very important questions.
How old is the tank?
How many fish do you have in your display tank?
What kind of fish?
If you only keep hardy fishes, quarantine is not necessary.

Tank age not important..... QT would be a “new” tank too

type not important either really

number of fish isn’t a concern, neither is size of QT or display

 

[jx fang]

I try to quarantine everything, but sometimes I skip because busy or laziness.

Tank is 5 years old with 23 fishes in the tank.
All fishes lives, only one dragonet died after 3 years.
Not sure why, I suspect nutrition issue and possible infection.
The fish ate pellets food, but only green ones, maybe the pellet doesn't provide the needed nutritions.
The fish is also get stuck in the stupid gyre pump about 1 year before she died, got her face all messed up, never really healed, always looking like some kind of worms living inside.

And a few fishes jumped.

I just don't want to risk the life of the fishes in my tank, so I try to quarantine as best as I can.
I don't want to loose my thriving harlequin filefish, and other fishes that has been with my family all those years.
I remember my wife was sad a few weeks after the dragonet died.
And yes, she named the fish.

And fishes that died in quarantine: about 30
Died fishes includes:
7 harlequin filefish
3 multibar angel
5 copperband butterfly
And others
Would these fishes servive if I dump them in the DT?
I don't know, maybe, maybe not.

 

[jx fang]

Tank age not important..... QT would be a “new” tank too

type not important either really

number of fish isn’t a concern, neither is size of QT or display

Of course it's important questions.
One that have a tank and only keep a damsel fish have zero meaningful support quarantine or not make any difference.

Try to keep a powder blue tang without quarantine more than 2 years, then you know what I mean.

 

[jx fang]

And sometimes I just ask a simple question.
If you have a peppermint angelfish in your tank.
Would you quarantine a new fish?

 

[jx fang]

A perfect quarantine tank is a mature tank as established as a display tank.
It's always better than no quarantine, always.
The question is can you maintain such a quarantine tank?
Is it worth the effort to you?