Quarantine ..... Do you or don't you?

[daniella3d]

I always quarantine. I have a hippo tang and it does not have ich at the slightest stress. why? because I treated it with hyposalinity and got rid of ich for good. No more ich and it,s been 2 months since it was introduced in my main tank. I simply don,t want any disease in my main aquarium, period, end of story.

Now I have a copperband butterfly and I take the quarantine as an opportunity to fatten the fish up while checking it for disease. It will be there at least 4 weeks, probably more. He's much better in quarantine because he's not stressed by other fish and can have all the food for itself. I think that's a lot less stressfull to a fish than being dumped in a main system with lots of fish that might not be happy about a new intruduction and if the fish is not so strong yet, that might just be the end of it.

I don't see what's stressfull in quarantine. A quarantine tank does not have to be full of ammonia or just bare empty. I put liverock in mine for filtration and shelter and the fish are in peace alone in there.

When I did the hyposalinity treatment for my hippo tang, the biofiltration kept on without problem with a few pieces of liverock. Bacterias survive quite well at 1.09.