Quarantine first additions too?

[highflyer885]

Is quarantining neccessary even with the initial introduction of the first fish in a newly setup tank? I have a 35G with a 10G sump that is just being setup......seems like I would need yet another tank if this is the case or can one get around the initial introduction without qt?

 

[Randall_James]

If you are striving for say an "Ich" free tank (and all my tanks are) then YES every item must endure quarantine. (there are a few exceptions of course, Mandarin fish comes to mind)

QT gives you time to assess the health of a new item, lets a new fish adapt to the trauma of transport and eat without competition while it gains stamina back from what must be a terrible experience for a fish.

On that note, I did stock my first Nano without QT and got really lucky initially and then introduced a Royal Gramma that brought in the "Ich" 8 weeks later I had the problem fixed but it was last time I put a new item into an established tank.

 

[adnup]

Try to catch a fish with ich and 100lbs of live rock for him to hide in! Thats what I did before I did the QT.

Also Ich will fall off the fish into the sand bed and multiply then will enter the water column and find a host

 

[aynoT79]

Dont ick only attack sick and stressed out fish.. I have never Q'd any of my fish and never had a problem with anything.. I guess when it comes to that you win some and loose some.. i just think putting the fish in Q then takin them out would stress them.. to me its better to put them in the tank and leave them...

Just a thought!!!