ORA Clowns

[spoonman1979]

Do ORA clownfish need quarantined since they are tank raised?

 

[ernieq]

If they were in a dealer's tank with other wild caught fish, yes. They might be carrying marine ich. It is always a good idea to QT anyway, just to give the fish a chance to settle.

 

[jmadison]

QT also gives you the chance to get them eating various prepared foods. Regardless of them being raised on food "x", stress of shipment and new environment can cause even the hardiest fish to refuse food sometimes. In QT you can observe feeding/general habits of said fish. Plus in the event there is an issue you can treat the whole system without worrying about other sensitive fish/corals in the display tank. JM2C

The value of QT'ing fish is sadly usually a hard learned(EXPENSIVE) lesson.

 

[RNich34]

I would. I've always been under the impression the ORA fish are much more immune to disease because they were born and raised in a tank.

 

[ernieq]

If anything, the other way around. They haven't been exposed to anything, so their immune system has not had a chance to prime itself. I have a tankful of baby clowns and one of my biggest concerns taking them to dealers is how they will react to the parasites in the water in their holding tanks. I see designer clowns all the time that when they are in the dealer tanks for an extended period of time they tend to look sickly and less than happy. Some dealers put them in tanks that are not part of their main plumbing, but a stand-alone tank.

 

[RNich34]

I read something about how ich is more likely to be developed by fish taken directly from the ocean.

 

[seamonkey84]

wild caught are more likely to have been exposed to it and prob carry it. Where captive bred are raised in a relatively sterile environment so you don't have the risk of introducing disease and parasites (but they also have no immunities to such) as long as the dealers tanks are clean or have a dedicated system for just the captive bred fish.

 

[spoonman1979]

It would be my impression that a place like ORA would be super careful about exposing their livestock to ich, brooklynella, ect., the fish would basically be raised in a quarantine tank. If I bought the fish from a local dealer and picked them up before they were added to the dealer's tanks the fish could bypass the QT. Thoughts?

 

[seamonkey84]

I work at a Petco, and I QT everything that hits the stores system. but if you get it in he shipping bag direct from SUstainable Aquatics, ORA, or sea and reef etc I personaly forgo QT. as long as its direct from the breeder, not a third party vendor that carries their fish also (like quality marine, A&M).
Although quality marine are very good, and some will risk it, all my wild caught fish get QT