New fish and ich poll

[mrstihl]

I'll admit I don't QT. I have never had an ich outbreak either or any signs of it. Maybe I'm luck and maybe it has a little bit to do with the fact that my LFS has a few very knowledgable and honest employees who even tell me if I need to wait a while to buy a fish so they can observe it longer.

 

[muttley000]

Eh, and what happens when you get a fish and a coral at the same time? Do you setup 2 QTs? What happens when you get a fish, and then another fish 3 weeks later. Do you setup 3 Qts, or just keep plopping fish in the same QT extending the amount of time you QT your fish for into you end up with a FOWLR for a half year...

I don't mind having 2 tanks support a display, but I can see why others wouldn't want to deal with it. I personally set up another one or restart the timer. I also have a separate tank I QT corals from fish anyways. One good point that has been made that ick is not the worst of what we are trying to keep out with QT procedures.

 

[aquaph8]

ick is not the worst of what we are trying to keep out with QT procedures.

This point cant be stressed enough. Afterall most of us are passing stuff from reefer to reefer.

 

[small alien]

sometimes make it sounds frequent. Only happened once for me in the past 5yrs or so. 6-8 qt sounds great but man that's a long time. 2-3wks as log as I don't see it they're good to go for me.

+1

I don't treat unless I see symptoms and I never have in QT except a royal gramma that was a goner.

The only time I've ever had a new fish get ich is a banded pipe I added directly with no QT. All other fish got it. Only a green banded goby died. This was a year and a half ago in a different tank.

I do not consider my current tank ich free even though I've never once seen a spot. I don't QT all coral and rock and have never copper'd or hypo'd a fish, so I figure it is in there. If it ever sprung up, I'd probably try some biological approaches over medication and fallow, at least to start. There are other diseases I'm more concerned about that seem more deadly.

 

[small alien]

For me, QT has as much to do with acclimation, observation and feeding as it does disease prevention. I QT 90% of my fish now. Some from DD I do not for various reasons though I would not recommend that approach to others. It is a calculated risk.