How many people really qt all new fish?

[ratherbediving]

I've always quarantined new fish, but never any corals.... I am rolling the dice that way I guess. Never felt comfortable putting a coral in a 10 gallon tank with just a powerfilter....

I'd be curious how many people quarantine EVERYTHING, not just fish.

 

[Freed]

Here again. :wave:

 

[TippyToeX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6564100#post6564100 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ratherbediving
I'd be curious how many people quarantine EVERYTHING, not just fish.

If it's wet I QT it.

 

[kappaknight]

Why not just get cleaner shrimps?

 

[Teremei]

When I am interested in a fish I just put a deposit down and make sure they keep it there for 2 weeks for me. Now if they've had the fish for 1 week already, and 2 more weeks. That's 3 weeks of "observation" there at the fish store.

 

[Andrew]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6566917#post6566917 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kappaknight
Why not just get cleaner shrimps?

Clear shrimp will eat eat, but putting a fish in hypo can make many diseases die off and decrease the chance of the fish getting the disease.

 

[Freed]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6567096#post6567096 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Teremei
When I am interested in a fish I just put a deposit down and make sure they keep it there for 2 weeks for me. Now if they've had the fish for 1 week already, and 2 more weeks. That's 3 weeks of "observation" there at the fish store.

So you're saying that in those 3 weeks the fish store won't put any other fish in that tank that would/could possibly be carrying any diseases that wouldn't show up until after you put them in your tank? That is so cool. Wish I would have thought about that.

 

[Freed]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6566917#post6566917 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kappaknight
Why not just get cleaner shrimps?

Cleaner shrimp will get every last minute egg, cyst or full grown parasite? That's another one I never even thought of either. You guys are genius'.

 

[TippyToeX]

A cleaner shrimp will also do nothing for internal parasites.

 

[Konadog]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6567721#post6567721 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TippyToeX
A cleaner shrimp will also do nothing for internal parasites.

So true!

I quarantine all new fish that go into my tank. I look at it this way, I would much rather loose the one fish, even if it was $100, than all my fish valued at $$$$$.

The only fish I haven't quarantined, were transferred from friends tanks that I trust.

 

[kane4187]

I do to everything that is wet.

 

[vest0830]

My logic is...what causes stress?

-comming from the supplier to the LFS
-the LFS throws it in another tank where nets and such are always going into the tank. Not to mention everyone that comes up to the tank to see nemo, not to mention how many times the fish change tanks while at the LFS
-then another net goes into the tank for me to get the fish
-I bring it home, put it in another tank where every day im checkin out the fish (qt)
-then i go in AGAIN with a net to try to fish the little guy out
-then he goes into ANOTHER new enviroment.

*thats my logic

IDK, ive had a few fish, never had one die from not QT'n it. -and my tank has been itch free for 6 months.

 

[Freed]

Stress will not cause Ich to spontaneously appear. Ich has to be introduced into a tank for ich to grow and populate it and the fish. A stressed fish will not magically grow ich if there is none in the tank to begin with.

 

[TippyToeX]

One point I think is often missed is that the time in QT is not only about disease treatment or prevention. It's also time to let the fish recover! From being wild caught and ship to wholesale, from whole to the supplier. That is about as stressful as it can get.

QT is peaceful, a time for the fish to be fattened up and pampered. To match the water quality from the QT to the main tank so there is no acclimation needed. That move (from qt to main tank) is no big deal at all. Putting a fish in the main tank from the supplier is a big deal IMO & IME.

 

[spotszilla]

I keep all new fish in a QT with methel blue for at least 3 weeks

 

[supertech3]

I always qt my new fish, I would rather lose a new fish than all my main tank

 

[Btboy2004]

I keep my new fish in QT for at least 3 weeks.

 

[atkinsg]

Wow. Over 70% don't QT. No wonder I read so many posts like "I put in my new fish and X days later all my fish have *Insert Favorite Disease Here*. Can I put *Insert Favorite Medicine Here* into my display tank with corals, shrimps, and snails?"

For all who have been lucky so far, read the posts of those who's luck ran out. They quickly become QT zealots. One reason to read these posts is to learn from others as well as from others mistakes.

QT now, before YOUR luck runs out.

 

[Pandora]

No offense, but this is in the newbie forum. There's a similar poll in the general forum that has different percentages, and even then, I'd bet the vast majority of "never haves" are from people with tanks less than 6 months, and been lucky so far. It only takes one case to crash a whole tank beyond recovery, and make you think twice.

 

[gdm42001]

I always QT
It is not worth cutting corners.
My fish live for many years, (oldest one is over 15 years old) and I have never infected my display tanks.