Do you quarantine?

[coraline79]

How did you almost lose your trigger to acclimation?

Well it was roming around in the store tank, and then bouncing around it the bag on the way home, water acclimation seemed to slow him down a bit, and then moments after it entered the tank it went into a rock structure, laid on the bottom, and didn't do anything for 3 days. I put food down near it, and it wouldn't eat, it's fins were limp, and it lost color, but after doing a full 24 hours, lights out, and oddly enough, moving water direction around it came to life!

[seatrueblue]

You should make sure they are eating before you even purchase your fish. You can even place a fish on hold and let the LFS continue the quarantine on them so that you don't have to further stress them by adding them to yet another tiny tank with no livestock.

I definitely could see the quarantine as a very useful tool for fish you purchase online though.

Of course you would have the lfs to feed the fish while you observe the fish before you purchase it. ..the making sure your fish is eating well was meant for online purchases...sorry I didn't make this clear.


garlic isn't a ich cure.. its only to entice your fish to eat. If I had listened to people about giving my fish garlic to get rid of the ich..my fish would have been dead back in April.

I don't want to have to tip toe around my tank and worry about if my fish get stressed ..their ich will show up.
So what I did was completely rid my tank of it.
I let my display tank go fishless for three months and cured my ich infested fish with cupramine. Have any of you heard of Doni on reef sanctuary? She also has a display tank that has no ich using these methods. She also sells very healthy picasso clowns.

I think a lot of people don't quarantine mainly because its a pain in the butt.. Am I right or am I wrong?

It would be nice if the LFS would do all this for us. Yeah that would be a lot less stress for the fish and the owner of the fish. I don't know of any LFS that will do all the quarantine procedures for you. They don't have the time, knowledgable staff or the extra space to do so.

[Mr Cob]

Of course you would have the lfs to feed the fish while you observe the fish before you purchase it. ..the making sure your fish is eating well was meant for online purchases...sorry I didn't make this clear.


garlic isn't a ich cure.. its only to entice your fish to eat. If I had listened to people about giving my fish garlic to get rid of the ich..my fish would have been dead back in April.

I don't want to have to tip toe around my tank and worry about if my fish get stressed ..their ich will show up.
So what I did was completely rid my tank of it.
I let my display tank go fishless for three months and cured my ich infested fish with cupramine. Have any of you heard of Doni on reef sanctuary? She also has a display tank that has no ich using these methods. She also sells very healthy picasso clowns.

I think a lot of people don't quarantine mainly because its a pain in the butt.. Am I right or am I wrong?

It would be nice if the LFS would do all this for us. Yeah that would be a lot less stress for the fish and the owner of the fish. I don't know of any LFS that will do all the quarantine procedures for you. They don't have the time, knowledgable staff or the extra space to do so.

Every LFS store that I know WILL hold the fish for you from anywhere to 24-48hours, you can even pre-pay on some places and they will hold the fish for even longer, if it dies then you get your money back provided the fish is still in their care...that's why you see HOLD on tanks from time to time. This method of quarantine allows you to make sure the fish is healthy and give it time to adjust before being swept off again. I did not say they would take all the procedures that you may do. The fact is that the fish is isolated and not in your main display when it is at the LFS giving you time to inspect the fish and verify certain things that you use a home quarantine for...

There is no way that you can absolutely without a doubt say that your tank is completely disease free no matter what steps you are taking. I bet if you stressed your fish, your fish would then show signs of ich.

I guess we can agree to disagree on this subject.

[Joshua]

The only way your tank is completely rid of ich is if you treated every single fish you've ever put in there with copper or hyposalinity for several weeks before placing the fish in your tank. If you simply have a normal isolated tank setup and don't treat them they've carried it into your main tank and it's present there, no question about it.

[Mr Cob]

Also, that's correct the garlic is used to entice fish to eat which in turn makes the fish happy which then aides with the immune system being able to fight the ich off. Same as when people get depressed they are more likely to get sick. Happy fish = Healthy fish.

P.s. No hard feelings...I just disagree with you about quarantine.

[Mr Cob]

The only way your tank is completely rid of ich is if you treated every single fish you've ever put in there with copper or hyposalinity for several weeks before placing the fish in your tank. If you simply have a normal isolated tank setup and don't treat them they've carried it into your main tank and it's present there, no question about it.

I did not know this. Very interesting.

[seatrueblue]

How do you stress a fish out? I think my clowns freak out every time I go to the tank to look at them. They are like " she is looking at us again! Quick lets rub all over our anemones and kick up some sand. That will teach her!"

[Mr Cob]

How do you stress a fish out? I think my clowns freak out every time I go to the tank to look at them. They are like " she is looking at us again! Quick lets rub all over our anemones and kick up some sand. That will teach her!"

LOL! I guess if you don't know how to stress a fish out then I'm no help!!! That was funny though.

[Rychek]

It takes quite a bit to stress fish out to the point that they "break out" in ich. Just looking at the tank and having your fish dart away isn't going to do it. Tearing your rock work apart to catch an unwanted fish could very well do it though (it did for my fish in my last tank at any rate).

[Joshua]

I had a powder blue tang that was loaded with ich for about 6 months, none of the other fish got it and the tang finally calmed down and settled in and kicked the ich all on his own. Beautiful fish.