Quarantine Poll!!

[Regric25]

This poll is Anonymous so NO ONE, even me, will see who voted for what. This poll will close on August 1st 2010. If you want to leave comments and advice please feel free!

So I have often wondered how many people REALLY quarantine their livestock before they introduce them into their tank. I always hear people talking about how it should be done but just how many really do it...

I, like many others, learned the hard way. My tank has been totally void of any fish for a month because I never quarantined my fish before introducing into my main display. I ended up with marine ich and almost all of my fish parished:(. I set up a dedicated quarantine tank where I keep new incoming fish for a period not less than 3 weeks. I have not purchased any more fish yet as I am nervous and I would like to allow more time for my main display to "recover". I was really thinking about what it would take for my display to be truly free of ich and realized that it would be ALOT of work. I would have to have 1 quarantine tank for frags and one quarantine tank for fish. The one for fish I can use meds and the one with the frags/rock i would not put meds or fish in so that the free swimming parasites would not find a host and die.

This is a very tedious and time consuming process and would truly test my patience. For what happened to my tank. Im sure the ich was always there but the fish were healthy enough to fend off the parasite and keep the numbers down and when I introduced a new Tang into my display who had no visible signs of ich it might have been stressed and as their reputation goes it was covered in the little buggars about 4 days later. I promptly took it out and hospitalized it. Then all of a sudden my other fish had it! I ended up building a larger hospital tank and started to treat all of them total of 5. Just about all of them died im sad to say. It all happened so fast all because I did not quarantine from the beginning... One thing is for sure we decided on a NO TANG policy for this tank.