Do you quarantine?

[seatrueblue]

I'm just curious, it seems like not very many people on maast quarantine their fish before they add their fish to the display tank. I qarantined my fish for 2 months before I added them to my display. I'm glad I did too because they had a bad case of ich. Now I also quarantine my new corals and live rock in my 24 gallon aquapod to make sure my fish don't get ich again. I know its a pain to quarantine, but its well worth it so I don't lose my healthy display fish.

[Rychek]

I've lost more fish to quarantining than I have any other way. If I had room to setup a quarantine tank, I probably would, but I don't have room in my current apartment.

[pagan.n.damaged]

I quarantine because I've seen what happens to peoples tanks when they don't. I've seen beautiful display tanks get torn down because that was about all they could do to get rid of the ick. I keep a 20 around just for that purpose.

[seatrueblue]

I have to quarantine my corals and live rock because there can be some thing on them. As in some thing that could infect my fish, corals or it might have a bad hitch hiker.

Yes, you can lose your fish when you quarantine, if you don't monitor parameters of the QT every day. Like I said..its a pain but totally worth it.

[DrMark]

I think it is good to quarrantine everything.
But, having said that I have had situations and reasons not to.
I always dip any coral i receive.
mark

[coraline79]

I don't quarantine. The things that have cause me so much greif, couldn't have been caught in quarantine. Ick is ick, I have never had it spread, and I always feed Garlic soaked food for new fish. As far as corals go, I only have a few pieces of SPS so I am not going to be detroyed if they die. Never had a softie get sick. My main issue has been bryopsis, and I didn't even know what it was when I introduces it to my tank.

I will probably learn a hard lesson some day, but I think fish get stressed easier if they are in a small tank, and other than my 125, I only have 30's. I also think that 2 acclimations are worse than one. This is also a stressful event.

I almost lost my bluethroat trigger to acclimation, andI don't think he would have survived another one a week later.

...just an uneducated opinion

[seatrueblue]

Some fish can live with ich but I don't know any fish that can live with brook, worms or flukes. Quarantine is not just to see if your fish are free of diseases. It is to monitor them to make sure they are eating.

How did you almost lose your trigger to acclimation?

[Mr Cob]

Your Poll sounds a little leading:

"I don't quarantine anything, just throw them in and hope for the best."

I don't quarantine but I do check everything closely before it is even a thought to add it to my tank. I don't "just throw them in and hope for the best"...I drip acclimate and take my time adding them to the display.

In my experience a happy fish will almost always live and a stressed fish almost always catches ich. I also feel that a quarantine does not help in making a fish happy and in a lot of cases can actually cause the fish lots of stress...I would prefer to skip this step, especially on an expensive fish. Ich is Ich and almost all fish carry it but their immune system is able to keep it in check...stress the fish out and soon you will see Ich in ANY tank.

With that said, I do think it is a good idea to inspect corals thoroughly and even quarantine them before adding them and their unwanted pest hitchhikers.

[Mr Cob]

Some fish can live with ich but I don't know any fish that can live with brook, worms or flukes. Quarantine is not just to see if your fish are free of diseases. It is to monitor them to make sure they are eating.

How did you almost lose your trigger to acclimation?

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.

[Joshua]

I don't quarantine fish and for those of yall that do it specifically for ich I guess you'll be surprised to know that the ich is already in your display tank, it is a natural thing and most of the time fish never have trouble fighting it off until they get stressed. New fish get stressed, especially when tossed into a QT setup and can often struggle with ich because of it so you end up thinking you saved your tank, then the ich goes away when the fish finally gets comfortable and you pitch it in your tank. As for corals, I don't QT or acclimate them, they get a lugols or seachem dip and a freshwater dip and get tossed into the tank after setting in the open air for 30 seconds to slime up.