Honest assessment

[Wildreefs]

for my own mental safety and and general understanding, what percentage do you guys have of getting fish thru quarantine?

For example, for every 10 fish you buy, how many of them make it to your display going thru full treatment?

I understand there are going to be differences, such as those who use coppper or other chemicals, this that do 2 weeks versus a month or more, and of course those who go with easier species such as zebrasomas or clownfish as opposed to leopard wrasses and acanthurus tangs such as the Achilles or power blue.

Thanks

 

[ndrwater]

Kind of a loaded question. Depending on the fish in question, survival rates can vary drastically.
What fish specifically are you having issues with?

 

[Wildreefs]

Any fairy wrasse is trouble for me. Have a yellow tang that’s as seemingly healthy at lfs, 3 days in my care has one Popeye.

 

[Shufflepig]

for my own mental safety and and general understanding, what percentage do you guys have of getting fish thru quarantine?

For example, for every 10 fish you buy, how many of them make it to your display going thru full treatment?

I understand there are going to be differences, such as those who use coppper or other chemicals, this that do 2 weeks versus a month or more, and of course those who go with easier species such as zebrasomas or clownfish as opposed to leopard wrasses and acanthurus tangs such as the Achilles or power blue.

Thanks

I’ve put 14 fish through qt and have treated all with 2 rounds of Prazipro followed by 21 days of chloroquine phosphate. Have only lost 2 fish in qt. Both were Lemonpeel angels that arrived in bad shape. Neither really had a chance and I’m glad I didn’t have to put them directly into the display. Some of the fish that made it through qt include a copperband butterfly, a small majestic angel, a powder blue tang, and a flame angel which had obvious ick when it arrived. Would never add a fish to display with out prophylactic qt. Reward far outweighs the risk of losing the fish and I really believe if you lose the fish in qt you would have lost it if you placed it directly in the display anyway. And you didn’t risk the health of any fish already in your display.

 

[ndrwater]

Wrasses have their own sort of trouble and therefore protocols. Let's call in some of the big guns..
@HotRocks
@Humblefish

 

[Triggreef]

Any fairy wrasse is trouble for me. Have a yellow tang that’s as seemingly healthy at lfs, 3 days in my care has one Popeye.

Too many variables to answer. As for the YT the popeye is most likely due to the relocation. Surface scratches from handling give the bacteria a way in. Could just as easilly happen from the fish freaking out and bumping into anything in the tank. Should be an easy reecovery though.

As for fairy wrasses, some can be tough. Many fairy wrasses can also be expensive. I don't but many fish these days, but when I was I had a 72g that I kept cycled and set up as a reef, even used it for frag racks and extra corals. Anytime I was going to quarantine a delicate (ie wrasse) fish, I would first set the parameters to what they needed to be for that fish. Start them there and get them used to aquarium life for a few weeks, deciding on course of treatment for the specific fish but I always favored tank transfer method. Seldom had any issues with any fish that was acclimated this way. Prior to that, just starting them off in TTM or some other QT setup, I had more casualties.

 

[Wildreefs]

Too many variables to answer. As for the YT the popeye is most likely due to the relocation. Surface scratches from handling give the bacteria a way in. Could just as easilly happen from the fish freaking out and bumping into anything in the tank. Should be an easy reecovery though.

As for fairy wrasses, some can be tough. Many fairy wrasses can also be expensive. I don't but many fish these days, but when I was I had a 72g that I kept cycled and set up as a reef, even used it for frag racks and extra corals. Anytime I was going to quarantine a delicate (ie wrasse) fish, I would first set the parameters to what they needed to be for that fish. Start them there and get them used to aquarium life for a few weeks, deciding on course of treatment for the specific fish but I always favored tank transfer method. Seldom had any issues with any fish that was acclimated this way. Prior to that, just starting them off in TTM or some other QT setup, I had more casualties.

I dosed in 3 table spoons (probably closer to 5) of epsom salt into 20 gallon tank (29 gallon tank, but 20 of volume) hopefully that does the trick

 

[ngoodermuth]

In the last couple of years:

I’ve lost one fairy wrasse in QT, a chocolate tang, a regal angel, a Clarki clownfish, and two copperbands.

I’ve lost other fish after they went into my tank. Two tangs died mysteriously at the same time during a mini-tank crash. One fairy wrasse died due to aggression from another. One regal angel made it through QT but just never ate right and wasted away. A couple made it through QT but didn’t work out for my tank and were sold or moved to other tanks.

And in the end I have three leopard wrasses, one yellow coris wrasse, three fairy wrasse, two clarkis, a regal angel, mandarin, and a potters angel. Three more fish in QT, can let you know how they make it through 3/21**post/response edited to add those results to my numbers***

Since setting up my current tank (2 years)
Lost in QT: 6
Lost in tank: 4
Sold/relocated:5
In tank now:12

Total fish purchased:27
Made it through QT alive:21
Still alive today (or when last in my possession): 17
Fish that passed: 10

So, assuming the fish that were later sold are still living I have a 63% survival rate using QT. I can tell you that I’ve had tanks before that I did not QT and my “in tank now” numbers for those tanks always ended at “0 or 1” after velvet swept through...

All of the fish on this breakdown were treated with either copper or cp, prazi/metro or GC, and quite a few went through at least one course of antibiotics before graduating QT. So the “made it through QT alive” number all were medicated either symptomatically or prophylactically.

 

[Triggreef]

So, assuming the fish that were later sold are still living I have a 60% survival rate using QT. I can tell you that I’ve had tanks before that I did not QT and my “in tank now” numbers for those tanks always ended at “0 or 1” after velvet swept through...

I just don't see how you can argue with that. Lol. Great post btw.