Learned a lesson

[bevo5]

Yeah I don't like all of this calculated risk stuff.

Yes, you can look at it as a worst case financial loss and then decide if it's worth the time/money to QT. But then...eh...you know...the fish die. The fish that were taken out of the ocean so you could keep them in a box.

The least we can do is try and make sure they don't die....not just shrug it off as a temporary, and minor financial loss.

The fish die from something perfectly easy to detect and treat. Now new fish have to be taken out of the natural environment. Fewer fish left for later. Yadda yadda yadda. Not the best.

We obviously can only really measure the value of our tanks is terms of money spent/lost, and whether we choose to QT is totally up for debate. But I just don't like the mind set of 'eh, if they die they die.'

 

[Lenny_S]

I agreed with @bknapp and @bevo5. I don't like the nonchalant attitude towards the creatures we take and care for. The unfortunate truth is that all we can do on a forum like this is educate when we can and offer our opinion when we have the opportunity.
But the fact is that some folks have dodged the bullet and been able to have long term success without QT. and that gives them the basis to form their opinion.
I would just say that knowing a great many reefers over the years, the evidence would substantially point towards quarantine being a responsible way to care for your creatures.
Hopefully others that read through this thread can take away some good information and it improves their ability to care for the animals in their charge.

 

[Chrisfish]

Yeah I don't like all of this calculated risk stuff.

Yes, you can look at it as a worst case financial loss and then decide if it's worth the time/money to QT. But then...eh...you know...the fish die. The fish that were taken out of the ocean so you could keep them in a box.

The least we can do is try and make sure they don't die....not just shrug it off as a temporary, and minor financial loss.

The fish die from something perfectly easy to detect and treat. Now new fish have to be taken out of the natural environment. Fewer fish left for later. Yadda yadda yadda. Not the best.

We obviously can only really measure the value of our tanks is terms of money spent/lost, and whether we choose to QT is totally up for debate. But I just don't like the mind set of 'eh, if they die they die.'

I truly agree, I am very new to this hobby and do not give advice other than to mention someone else on this forum that can help them. But I read and read and watched you tube videos and have asked many questions on this forum and know that this hobby is not cheap, equipment and our sea creatures and I can tell you that when I loose one of them I feel so bad as I have taken the responsibility of their care. In the beginning I did not have a qt but after reading another thread recently and her heartbreak I made the decision to do so but again that is what I have chosen to do as we all have choices and live with them.

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Question cause I have seen it said many times. What is so hard about keeping a Qt ? I run one and don't see anything hard about it.

 

[bevo5]

I'm with y'all. I never had a qt for salt until very recently. I always ran hospital tanks for fish but since treating a reef tank is so hard I decided to qt. but the first batch of fish went in with no qt. new ones are in qt now. Shhhhhhh.

 

[cmcoker]

Question cause I have seen it said many times. What is so hard about keeping a Qt ? I run one and don't see anything hard about it.

Well, it is more work than doing nothing and just letting a fish die ...

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Well, it is more work than doing nothing and just letting a fish die ...

Sorry but I do not understand that answer.

 

[Duke4Life]

Question cause I have seen it said many times. What is so hard about keeping a Qt ? I run one and don't see anything hard about it.

I totally agree, this is 1 of those things I don't get (like putting a tang in a tank smaller than a 75 gallon). My quarintine tank was setup a month before my DT. Now I did skip quarintine on a few fish and luckily just had flukes. Since then every fish that enters my house spends minimum 6 weeks in quarintine.

 

[bknapp]

Keeping a QT isn't difficult, it's a little time consuming. It also depends on the type of QT you run, I run a medicated QT as opposed to the watch, wait and see QT. I chose the medicated QT as I decided to not chance it at all.

 

[Greenstreet.1]

I don't see anything had about running a qt. this is mine.

 

[cmcoker]

Sorry but I do not understand that answer.

I run QT, I believe everyone should. Setting up again today for a fish buy after its cycled
I was alluding to laziness, since it requires no effort to throw a fish in the DT and hope for the best. While a qt requires minimal effort of observation and water changes. Medication if necessary with the required testing. Really not much compared to running a reef tank, but it is more effort than not doing Anything at all but adding a fish.

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Ok I got you. Much better [emoji41]