Do you quarantine?

[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.