Quarintining First Fish

[pepper89]

Do you quarantine your first fish? I plan on doing a fish cycle, so I am putting in microbacter9 with two juvenile clownfish, but I am unsure if I should quarantine them before adding them to my display. I don't plan on adding other fish very quickly and mostly plan on just letting it settle out for a bit and adding more corals, but slowly. Eventually, I plan to add a few other fish that I plan on quarantining so that the set-up would get used.

I guess my questions are; if these two fish do have ick or velvet or something, how long would it take before I could be sure I wouldn't give that to new fish? If they have it and die, would I have to tear down the whole tank and start over? Would that cause issues with me adding corals or my cycle?

 

[Tamberav]

Do you quarantine your first fish? I plan on doing a fish cycle, so I am putting in microbacter9 with two juvenile clownfish, but I am unsure if I should quarantine them before adding them to my display. I don't plan on adding other fish very quickly and mostly plan on just letting it settle out for a bit and adding more corals, but slowly. Eventually, I plan to add a few other fish that I plan on quarantining so that the set-up would get used.

I guess my questions are; if these two fish do have ick or velvet or something, how long would it take before I could be sure I wouldn't give that to new fish? If they have it and die, would I have to tear down the whole tank and start over? Would that cause issues with me adding corals or my cycle?

If they die from velvet/ich then 45 days at 81 degrees after they die or are removed.

Ich can hang out undetected for long periods. I had an angel not show any till 5 weeks in.

If they have something like uronema, it can't be removed from the tank without tearing it down and bleaching. Not as common, but I did see someone have a pair of clowns with it recently.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Short answer is: best practice is to qt all incoming fish. Clowns are hardy and may shrug off ick just fine. The next fish you add may not.
QT is a great time to Fatten up fish that have been stressed for a while. Get them eating. Get them calm. Get them healthy.

Qt prior to introduction. QT is not always 100%. The knowledge you gain may help you in the future.

 

[pepper89]

Short answer is: best practice is to qt all incoming fish. Clowns are hardy and may shrug off ick just fine. The next fish you add may not.
QT is a great time to Fatten up fish that have been stressed for a while. Get them eating. Get them calm. Get them healthy.

Qt prior to introduction. QT is not always 100%. The knowledge you gain may help you in the future.

Ok, that does make sense. I would take it if they are QT the entire time but shrug it off and don't show signs, they would be introducing at least less into the tank too. Compared to if I put them in there at first fully infected. Giving it less of a chance to get a foothold.

I think it would probably be the safest bet too. Plus give me a chance to get into the swing of feeding them and see how much they actually consume without it all being able to be hidden in the rock and sand.