Buying corals

[mnash]

I am currently on week one of my eight week qt for ich. I had to tear down my tank to get all of the fish out and never want to go through that again. I did get it all put back together and I think it looks better than before! I have few corals and am looking to get more. I would like to purchase them from an online vendor that does not keep any fish in their coral tanks ( to eliminate any small possibility that I will get any ich). I know that ich feeds off of fish not coral but I have heard that ich can cling on to coral for a short time. I don't want to have to qt each coral for a month before I put it in my DT. I think it would be easier to get it from a good ich free source. If you know of any vendors that do not have fish with their coral please let me know.


Thanks,
Mike

 

[2farNorth]

With corals, I never really worried about Ich much, I was more concerned with other parasites, and bad things,, such as Nudi's, Redbugs, Flatworms, etc. other things that eat/kill corals,,, May want to think about keeping that QT, and when you go to add corals, just make a stop through the QT.....

 

[KDodds]

Well, from experience, you DO have to worry about pathogens coming in on corals/clams/invertebrates. I had to nuke my wife's Seahorse tank because of a Mycobacterium marinum infestation that could not have come from any source other than food (frozen or live, don't know). And the only food introduced was frozen Mysid shrimp (Hikari and PE), Opae'ula, and Chocolate Chip stars for the Harlequins. More recently, the introduction of a tiny frag of Neospongodes given to me as a "gift" spurred an infection of all Pomcanthids/Pomcentrids/Chaetodontids in my 450, and we're talking a fingertip sized piece of rock here, half of which died (all other fish families are fine). It's really not JUST fish you have to worry about in terms of quarantine.

 

[Roy G. Biv]

Ich is like herpes.. You always have it, you just need to manage the outbreaks.

Wow.. Thats insightful, I think thats going to be my signiture!!