Quarantine

GrimReefer · #1 03-23-2007, 01:47 AM

Do you quarantine? Fish? Corals? Both? Ever wish you had quarantined when you hadn't? What is your quarantine setup like?

I myself do not quarantine anything. Mostly due to space and impatience. But I haven't heard any nasty stories to encourage me to do so...only statements saying I should.

andsoitgoes · #2 03-23-2007, 01:55 AM

I had one for FW, but I've been very... um... lazy to do one for my reef tanks, I try to add stuff rarely, but I'm worried one day it will bite me in the butt...

marie · #3 03-23-2007, 02:10 AM

I quarantine all new fish, I should with all corals too especially with all the nasty pests out there

My achilles tang would of been just another statistic if I didn't have him in quarantine and he would of probably killed all my other fish too ( he had marine velvet)

mark · #4 03-23-2007, 02:13 AM

Normally QT fish with a little 10g with a Aqua-clear and heater unless I was confident pest free (like a promise from another reefer) but more than fish can cause problems so I found. Got a little acro frag that ended up spreading bugs though-out tank, added some rock and got aptasia (no QT).

Marinegeek101 · #5 03-23-2007, 02:26 AM

I started to quarantine a while ago in a 10 gallon. Due to aiptasia on rocks and a unwanted hitchiker. I have only quarantined fish and Im thinking of QT my new corals as well but I get to lazy or impatient

GrimReefer · #6 03-23-2007, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by mark

Normally QT fish with a little 10g with a Aqua-clear and heater unless I was confident pest free (like a promise from another reefer) but more than fish can cause problems so I found. Got a little acro frag that ended up spreading bugs though-out tank, added some rock and got aptasia (no QT).

what happened with the bugs? i'm not worried about aiptasia. it's treatable, and it might not show up for months.

mark · #7 03-23-2007, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGrimReefer

what happened with the bugs? i'm not worried about aiptasia. it's treatable, and it might not show up for months.

Lots of things are treatable but can be a royal pain, probably just easier to keep out the bad guys in the first place.

As for the bugs, whole tank treatment with Interceptor(x3), they're gone but by the time I figured out what was going on and got with the cure, the acros started to bleach and brown out. Colours still not coming back.

marie · #8 03-23-2007, 03:03 AM

at least the red bugs are treatable, the montipora nudibranches are what scare me