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Originally Posted by Kafudafish
But when stores say specifically that they quarantine everything for 2 weeks to ensure they are selling high quality specimens and charge a premium for this. We should know if they're falsely advertising this.
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for the record two weeks doesnt do a whole lot for corals or for fish, for fish it buys you some time to see if they are eating and for any infections , for corals two weeks does nothing unless the corals are being dipped weekly and then quarantined seperately by the pests they are being treated for.
treating a colonie for say flat worms does nothing if thrown back into the display they were housed in , very few dips kill anything in one treatment.
its always on the buyer to treat their own livestock , if a business advertises zero pests then yes go back there , if they say they qt then thats fine too but if they charge you for qt then i would imagine it shows up on your invoices or its prob not the case or just here say.
its one thing to qt its another to guarantee pest free livestock which i doubt they do.
even if a business says they qt doesnt mean your getting a pest free item or a animal in perfect shape , like the consumer who buys the corals businesses will miss things too and are often misinformed.