Invertebrates and Quarantine

[Cobrasvt1999]

Hello,

I have been looking around and trying to find some information on this but cant seem to find much of a definitive answer. It seem clear to me that it is a good idea to quarantine and dip new fish and corals for at least a month after receiving them.

I don't however, see much of anything regarding invertebrates (such as the cleanup crew) in this regards. I know there aren't many dips that wouldn't kill them, but is there some other way to prevent a parasite or disease from getting into my tank on these little guys other than quarantine? should I even bother quarantining them?

 

[Deftones2015]

I never quarantine my inverts like snails or shrimp. Corals I dip according to the instructions. I do quarantine fish tho for a few weeks minimum.

 

[Cobrasvt1999]

I never quarantine my inverts like snails or shrimp. Corals I dip according to the instructions. I do quarantine fish tho for a few weeks minimum.

So you just acclimate them and plop them in? There isnt anything that could really sneak in with them?

 

[Deftones2015]

I acclimate them, take a little of my tank water in a cup and rinse the snails off and plop them in the tank. I don't think there's much that they can bring in. It's possible they could bring ich cysts on their shell, but quarantine wouldn't do much seeing that ich cysts can live for some time, it would be difficult to keep enough algae for the snails or food for the hermits for a few months. I've never quarantined inverts and have had 0 issues with any parasites or anything like that.

 

[CStrickland]

Its a question of how much risk you want to take.
Some people are very careful to keep out diseases, especially ich. That end of the spectrum involves qt'ing everything wet for 72 days without fish. Everything. That disease needs a fish for part of its life cycle, so 72 days is long enough for all the babies to hatch and die because they don't have a fish.
The riskiest end of the spectrum would be not qt'ing anything. Some people do that.

Most of us are somewhere in the middle, we accept some risk but try not to take unnecessary risk.