Who quarantines everything?

[sredzins]

So I recently posted on here about a very small tang getting ich(only fish to show signs) and it died last night after having him in quarantine for a week or so.

After doing a lot of research on the parasite, ich can literally be brought into your aquarium from anything! Fish inverts, corals, sand, rock water.... Anything. They might not feed on anything but fish but they reproduce on any and everything else. And that's the longest stage. And I'm not sure about some of you but I can't afford to set up a quarantine tank for corals.

So my question is is it worth it to quarantine if you're just quarantining fish?


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[Lilmatty5dimes]

i havent read this. have a link. thought it could only really be brought in on fish since the parasite live on the fish. tagging along.

 

[sredzins]

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/ich.html

I mean its just kind of discouraging investing in a whole nice quarantine system(especially for a broke college student haha) if I quarantine a fish and then add a coral that some how has it and then the entire system and the fish has it.


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[mike007]

That is true ich can be brought in by many different sources. Usually though it is just the fish. Lfs move so many fish in and out of there tanks it is hard to prevent this. Good vendors will quaratine there fish before selling. If i see a fish i want i will wait a couple of weeks before buying to make sure he is okay. But i have had my fish for several years and do not plan on introducing any new ones.

 

[Ron Popeil]

i typically do not QT anything and have been successful without doing so for many years. i have started to FW many fish now however, due to nearly 90% of them (no matter where i get them) having flukes all over their bodies. This improved things greatly for any new fish added. in my experience, ich isnt something to worry about unless your fish are extremely stressed or in poor water conditions. only then does it really take off and actually kill your fish....

 

[ohio reefer]

I quarantine all my fish, unfortunately I only have a 15 gallon quarantine tank. So when I bring home a tang they can not be quarantined. The lfs around me normally do a great job with quarantine. Every single tang I've owned has had ick. Treating my tank as we speak


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[jm23]

Click...click...click...BANG! I quarantined all my fish making sure no ich got into my tank, but I got ich anyway. I have bought a large amount of corals lately and I truly believe that ich came in on one of the frags (I dipped everything so I wouldn't bring in any coral pests). If you don't quarantine everything you are just playing russian roulette, it was fine for me for almost a year, but now I lost several fish and had the pleasant task of catching the rest of them to put in a QT. Thankfully I am about done buying corals for the immediate future as my tank is fully stocked, but in the future when I do buy again, I will be setting up a QT for corals. I have 10 fish-less weeks ahead and the hassle of maintaining a hypo-QT, to me it would be worth the money to set up a small QT for corals (it would have cost less then the fish I have lost). GL.

 

[sredzins]

So you're quarantining your fish again? See I would have lost trust in qt. Its been to many times where I will walk into the lfs for something like food or water and I'll end up walking out with a frag that caught my eye.

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[jm23]

So you're quarantining your fish again? See I would have lost trust in qt. Its been to many times where I will walk into the lfs for something like food or water and I'll end up walking out with a frag that caught my eye.

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You are not kidding. I just went to our local frag swap with no intentions of buying anything, **cough, cough**, and walked out with 5 frags from Jason Fox (he gave me a great price that I couldn't refuse). To be honest though trying to find a place to put the 5 new frags was very difficult, so my tank is really full. If I buy again thought I will have a QT for the corals, I just can't afford to lose all the fish I just did again in the future, besides I hate seeing animals die under my care.

 

[sredzins]

Exactly that's why I don't want to quarantine, I could easily quarantine my fish but with all the time waiting and effort, it'll be wasted as soon as a frag with ich is introduced

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[Aqua fire/medic]

What about stocking your tank full of corals first, then qt all your fish that you add after the fact..... Idk, just a thought.

 

[Ozzy]

I know most LFS here. Keep there fish tanks and coral tanks on seperate systems. But who is saying that just traded in frag didn't come from an ich infested tank? But on that note. I don't quarantine corals..mainly just a dip and baster bath and then off they go in my tank, of course after acclimating and what not. The only trouble I have ever had with ich has only been with tangs and dwarf angels (for some reason), but normally a fish will either die or grow immune (harsh I know), but I feel that treating with chemicals in a QT tank is more stressful on a fish. So as long as you can get that fish to continue to eat and build immunity it should do great. But everyone has their own experience. I vowed to never get a coral beauty or yellow tang again haha. (wouldn't get a tang now because I don't have a tank to house them anyways).

But depending on your budget a you can just get a small tank and set it up as a QT/hospital tank for the just in case things. Plus its always good to have it set up for monitoring new fish just to be sure they don't have anything wrong.

 

[sredzins]

I may set one up just for the sake of not introducing disease and have a crash. And to make sure the fish is eating before I add it to the dt

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