Vote - YES or NO

[swhobbie1]

Yes ... QT fish and corals is the way to go. One you get burned by pests wiping out your corals, ick/velvet wiping our your fish you've had for years, watching a tank go fallow for 72 days ... you learn to value QT. :thumbsup:

QT ... constant supervision... ammonia badge, WC and top off as often as needed, feed enough but not too much or siphon excess out, making sure the fish in the QT are getting along... etc

 

[Pimentinha1987]

IMO it is pointless to quarantine fish if you don't plan on quarantining EVERYTHING...

I have quarantined before, but no longer do...

I may have been lucky or whatnot, but since I got my powder blue tang (ich magnet) which was the second fish added to my tank, I stopped quarantining.

Like most I only had a 10G or 20G to quarantine.
Put him in there and it was just PLAIN WRONG for me to leave the fish in such a small space.

So what did I do?? Moved it to the display tank and got a BF UV sterilizer...

It showed signs of ich for a little while, along with other fish I added later on, however, now it is just beautiful man...

None of the fish show signs, they all eat very very well, and are just doing great so far.

Also, ich in particular, does not kill your fish...
It is basically an irritator and a stress causing parasite that may eventually cause your fish to get sick and die from such disease, or, may stress him to the point where he will stop eating and, thru infection or disease, it will make the fish succumb.

 

[Despairodyne]

Also, ich in particular, does not kill your fish...
It is basically an irritator and a stress causing parasite that may eventually cause your fish to get sick and die from such disease, or, may stress him to the point where he will stop eating and, thru infection or disease, it will make the fish succumb.

I don't know enough to know whether this is true but I'm pretty sure velvet kills fish.

 

[ThaBeast]

I quarantine everything, and no longer take frags from local hobbyists when my coral QT isn't up and running. I've battled ICH a couple of times, I think it came in on coral or inverts. I have also had bubble algae & aiptasia, which is awful to deal with....so now even snails get QT

 

[ThaBeast]

I have been using the tank transfer/prazipro/observation for fish, seems to be working well

 

[ssc]

Yes every time

 

[tmz]

Also, ich in particular, does not kill your fish...
It is basically an irritator and a stress causing parasite that may eventually cause your fish to get sick and die from such disease, or, may stress him to the point where he will stop eating and, thru infection or disease, it will make the fish succumb.


That is not true. Ich(crytocaryon irritans ) kills all by itself and frequently. An infested dying fish may also pick up other maladies before checking out.