We obviously disagree that “plop and drop” and “just dump it” are substantially the same thing. One’s a meme posted in this very thread by someone that probably voted for “just dump it”. It wasn’t an attempt at trolling. I’m assuming both mean buy a fish, float, and put them straight into your display tank. I’m pretty sure that everyone reading this thread (except you) has a similar interpretation. I used “plop and drop” because it was used in this thread by someone that obviously follows this approach.
Please provide support for this statement. ORA, Biota, Sea and Reef and literally hundreds of other breeders have chosen to eliminate disease from their breeding stock and implement bio controls in order to protect their livestock because they’ve found they are more successful at keeping and breeding fish that are free of disease. You are suggesting that the scientists, biologists, and hobbyists that are successfully breeding fish are wrong and that every aquaculture facility that raises fish for food are wrong.
I worked at a pet store in high school and literally quarantined thousands of fish. We did that because the owner found that it was cheaper to pay us to do the work (at the time) than it was to lose the fish that we pulled out of the massive sales tank he had (with UV) on a daily basis if we didn’t quarantine. Personally, I just had 7 fish go through quarantine and TTM and didn’t lose a single one. If you are just talking about TTM or observation, there is almost no difference between what it takes to maintain a quarantine tank and what it takes to maintain a display tank. Other than the fish that were sick to begin with, where are these posts of people that can’t keep a fish alive in quarantine?
