Cleaning your tank during a showing of ICH

[daniella3d]

why? ever heard of marine velvet?

I just got a copperband butterfly and putting it in quarantine was the best thing to do because the fish ended up needing a huge amount of food to fatten up (was very skinny) and also ended up needing a prazipro treatment for flukes.

The quarantine is the perfect time and place to acclimate a fish properly. It is quiet, nobody bother it and it can be trained to eat certain type of food without other fish jumping all in. Dumping a new fish into a main tank with lots of other fish where there can be aggression is much more stressfull to the fish. Even though no other fish attack it my copperband was much more stressed going into my main tank with other fish moving around than when it was alone and quiet in its quarantine tank. There it could take all its time to eat.

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

Why quarantine them, to just stress them out again when you have to re-capture and move them over. So with new or old habitants, just let them be.... If they are healthy enough, they will make it through.

Just my opinion, don't beat me up too bad!