POLL why I don't quarantine

[cr500_af]

jhutto;636256 wrote: I do not quarantine new fish. When I see a fish I like, my first question is to the LFS is when did you get the fish in? If its been there a couple weeks, that is a good thing. I usually go to a store look at the fish a couple times and then ask to see them eat. If the color is good, swimming fine and etc. I will buy and pay for them. I then ask the store to hold for a week to ten days. When I pick it up, I notice colors, swimming condition and eating habits again. I would say this has worked for me. Its almost as if the store is quarantining for me. With this effort, I am sure I am not getting a fish that was damaged in collecting or transporting. Also, I buy fish only from the best stores where I know they have been taken care of like Pure Reef who happens to be close to my house. That's my plan and its worked for me.

Joe

Just keep in mind that a perfectly healthy fish that you've been observing and checking out in the store for weeks, COULD have been infected yesterday by something in the store's last shipment.

 

[shamanofsexy]

grouper therapy;636394 wrote: I can appreciate that what your saying is true but I still think too many of you are looking at it that the Qt is for the benefit of the NEW fish . It is just as much or more important for the fish you already have so that they avoid contamination.

True and i respect that. But i've never had a problem with the way i do it. Like the poster above it will probably be a case of the 1st time it goes wrong will be the time i buy a new quarantine system. (my old 1 is currently occupied by my axolotyl.)

 

[slo-sti]

I will be quarantining all my new fish once my new system is up and running I have just had too many problems with disease! I'm not gonna deal with it this time!