Do you quarantine?

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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.