The "best" new fish/quarantine methods...?

[krullshards]

You know, I got myself a geometric pygmy hawk. I had him in QT for 2 or 3 weeks, then due to a miscalculation on my part I moved him into my DT. All seems to be well, but I read an interesting thing on wet web media. I think it was Bob Fenner, but whoever it was was suggesting to someone else who was having trouble getting their geo to eat to not QT it and put it right into the display because they are very resistant to disease and quite unlikely to be carrying one.

I was kinda shocked, they are the same folks that have said in the past to quarantine everything that is wet.

What are you guys' thoughts?

 

[Deinonych]

Personally, I would never jeopardize the lives of my established fish to save one that wasn't eating in QT. I would certainly do everything to save the fish in QT, but throwing away 3 years of hard work and discipline is out of the question for me.

 

[kmbyrnes]

Personally, I would never jeopardize the lives of my established fish to save one that wasn't eating in QT. I would certainly do everything to save the fish in QT, but throwing away 3 years of hard work and discipline is out of the question for me.

It sucks to lose one fish. It sucks worse to lose a whole tank to try to save that one fish.
My wife keeps pushing me to shorten the QT period on new fish, but we now have so much time, energy, and $$ invested in the tanks that any benefit is far outweighed by the risks.

 

[krullshards]

It sucks to lose one fish. It sucks worse to lose a whole tank to try to save that one fish.
My wife keeps pushing me to shorten the QT period on new fish, but we now have so much time, energy, and $$ invested in the tanks that any benefit is far outweighed by the risks.

I definitely agree with you guys. It's too much time, energy and effort to risk. I was pretty shocked by the statement which goes against what they recommend most of the time. Here is the link, the first Q&A is the one I am talking about

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/hawkfshfdgfaqs.htm