do you need to quarantine clean up crew?

[MrMudkip]

any pests attach themselves to snails or hermits?

 

[Michael Hoaster]

Couldn't hurt. I've had snails come with tiny aiptasias attached, as well as algae.

 

[Johnnybgood74]

Depends on what you quarantine with copper will kill inverts and snails

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[Sk8r]

No. I just give them a swish in tank discard water to remove or dillute whatever water came with them and put them right on in. Never had had a problem traceable to an invert entry and that's in decades.

 

[ROlympia]

I don't put anything in the tank until it's been observed in quarantine at least 72 days. Everything comes with something on it. Gamble if the something is good or bad.

 

[MondoBongo]

the safest answer would be: yes, QT anything wet.

the longer answer is, inverts are low risk for carrying fish diseases. it certainly could happen, but shouldn't be a significant possibility.

ultimately, QT is a risk mitigation strategy, and the risk is never absolutely 0. so you're going to have to decide what's right for your setup.

in the last i've employed a second tank, disconnected from my main system, that functions as a long term QT. fully setup 20L is usually how i got. it's fully cycled, and acts as a holding pen either for after TTM (with fish) or just a place to dump inverts to give them some time.

i realize this isn't practical for everyone, and i myself have even stopped using this for clean up crew recently, just due to the effort of maintaining multiple systems.