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How many hobbyist's fish have later contracted ick or some other pernicious disease, parasite, etc despite religiously quarantining their fish?
Quarantine tanks and disease
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I lost my first pair of clowns to brook. Very unfortunate, but you have to make sure the medication is has the right amount medication in it. I was treating with formalin, but the mixture was too weak and the disease got aggressive. They were in QT for almost 2 weeks
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And to think, I only had 4 people interested when I gave away a free, all inclusive, QT setup last week...
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I missed that one too
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Well it was in a "Member's only" forum, so you would have missed it.
It got bumped fairly regularly for a few days. Gave it to the winner at the meeting.
The majority of my fish have gone through quarantine. Only one developed a problem while in quarantine. My bellus anglefish did develop a problem with her fins. That healed up over a month. After it healed and she was all better, I put her into my 95 gallon tank and has been doing just fine since.
Beyond that, I've never had an issue in either of my main tanks with any diseases. *knocks on wood*
Beyond that, I've never had an issue in either of my main tanks with any diseases. *knocks on wood*
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Yep.
The problem with most quarantine practices is that they are not done properly. Then I have seen people quarantine their fish properly and don't the corals. It does absolutely no good whatsoever to quarantine your fish and then put corals that have substrate or plugs or exposed skeleton from another tank in your tank. The ich can be reintroduced via that substrate. I have heard countless times of people having an ich outbreak ,remove all the fish for 5-8 weeks so as to kill the ich by no host being present Then turn around reintroduce the fish which are stressing again from the move and have not had time to build their immune system. Then they put a coral from another tank that they really know little about directly into their "ich free" tank and here it goes again. I wonder how the ich got back in the sytem:confused2::confused2:
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I even have a quarantine system running that I offered to fellow hobbyist and have not had one person decide to use it. Amazing to me, I don't understand.
That was a super gesture... if I didn't have a QT, I'd take you up on it in a heartbeat. However, I do NOT understand investing the money into setting up a reef tank, and then acting like you can't afford to spend $40-$50 to set up a basic QT. Lose one halfway nice fish and you could have paid for a basic setup. I hope I don't offend anyone, but if reefing has tapped you out so bad that you can't take that step, maybe it isn't the hobby for you. Skip buying the next frag and do the ****ed thing.
A 10g will handle pretty much anything short of large tangs/angels/triggers for the short period they'll be in it. $12 for a WalMart tank, a small HOB filter and a small heater, and there ya go. Shoot, in the last couple of months there have been two FREE 55s here.
Heck, while I did my tank swap I had every single living thing in my tank in a 10g QT... from nine fish, all the way to my cleaner shrimp and CUC. They were only in there for half a day, but they could have stayed longer if I were willing to stay on top of the water quality.
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Sadly, most people don't choose to quarantine until *after* this has happened to them. As salespeople, when we speak of quarantine, it just comes across as a sales pitch to sell another tank. While that is partly true, a quarantine is something of an "insurance policy". It's not foolproof, sometimes even after a suitable protocol, stuff happens, but not quarantining at all is like playing Russian Roulette with one's system.
Jenn
