The cons of quarantine

[Ram3500]

* * * This posts so touches home rite now . Three week ago I picked up a barnacle blennie . Did I Qt him no why would I do that I have been running for four years never seen a spot on a fish.
* * * *A week later in the morning I find my lawnmower blennie who we have had for two years dead in the tank. I assumed he died do to a lack of food in the tank . I tried to feed him all sorts of food but he would only eat off *he rocks and glass we called him the sea monster .
* * Three day after that I noticed my cleaned wrasse all over my scopas tang . After a closer inspection I could see white spots . The next day I could see my mimic tang looked ill almost like he was loosing weight . So set up a qt tank to medicate with copper.
* * This is where I made a mistake . I removed my mimic and the scopas to treat them with copper . The next day my prize mimic tang was dead . I loved this fish he was the second fish we added to our tank about four years ago . My five year old son named him Big Bird when he was three .
* * *Yesterday my wife called me when I was at work to tell me the barnacle blennie was dead and our white cheek tang was covered in white spots . So on the way home from work I got the biggest uv sterilizer money could buy . I removed all my rocks from my tank and put all the fish in the qt tank except for the Mandarin.
* * Sadly this morning I lost the white cheek tang this really hit hard he was the coolest fish . All my other fish appear to be ick free but I will treat the in the qt tank until Saturday when I will have to add the add them back to the Display tank .
* * This is where things get scary on the 29 of October I am going to Maui for a week . I have a good friend watching the tank but he has only fresh water experience .
* * Will I ever add a fish with out qt again ? Not in a million years . I bought a $30.00 blennie and it cost me easily $130 in live stock. Beautiful full grown fish . And I have added a $ 230 bandage uv sterilizer in hopes it will contain the outbreak .
* *Please don't gamble all it takes Is one ick carrier fish to destroy a thriving Eco system . I pray that the uv works when I am away.*