Might have to eat my own words re: quarantine

[MKLKT]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Just did a big water change at lunch, and all the fish seem fine. Even the 2 still in the display are fine. Not sure what's going on.

Good to hear.

I sadly lost one more fish, and have started my medication attempt on the remaining ones. The biggest problem is that none of them really have similar symptoms, all the other animals in the tank are fine though.

Lost my snowflake blenny who didn't have any visible symptoms and lost my lemonpeel angel which had an abrasion on one side of its body. Foxface has dots but is otherwise acting normal and one domino damsel has lost most of its colour but is behaving mostly normal. The rest seem to be fine but it doesn't look like anything that would have been prevented by quarantine or other means.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by MKLKT

but it doesn't look like anything that would have been prevented by quarantine or other means.

I'm in the same position. Even if I had quarantined, I would have put the fish in the main tank after a month. He didn't get sick until 5 or 6 weeks, so this still would have happened.

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I'm in the same position. Even if I had quarantined, I would have put the fish in the main tank after a month. He didn't get sick until 5 or 6 weeks, so this still would have happened.

Exactly! And I'm sure the fish was at PR for a week or more being watched.. O add that to the time frame..

I don't know, this really freaks me out, I've never quarentined and have lost a fish here and ther and just chalked it up to the way it is.

I find it so odd that the two fish left in the tank are ok..

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I'm in the same position. Even if I had quarantined, I would have put the fish in the main tank after a month. He didn't get sick until 5 or 6 weeks, so this still would have happened.

yup hard to say what it is if theres no real id who knows if qt would have seen any results, i think your doing the right thing by treating anyways and being cautious when adding your fish back im sure you know but add them 1 every few days or a week so as not to over work your bacteria

glad to hear things never got any worse mancheers

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by reefwars

when adding your fish back im sure you know but add them 1 every few days or a week so as not to over work your bacteria

you've never met me obviously I'm sure they'll ll just go back at once...

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

you've never met me obviously I'm sure they'll ll just go back at once...

sounds like a familiar style lol :P

[George]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I'm in the same position. Even if I had quarantined, I would have put the fish in the main tank after a month. He didn't get sick until 5 or 6 weeks, so this still would have happened.

You can prevent it by doing proper quarantine. Many people quarantine their fish for 2+ months. During this period, many people also do prophylactic treatment. One of my favorite is hypo for 4+ weeks, prazi-pro for a couple weeks, and then a couple weeks of observation.
Fish can live for years. I don't know why we can't wait a couple months before we put them in DT.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by George

You can prevent it by doing proper quarantine. Many people quarantine their fish for 2+ months. During this period, many people also do prophylactic treatment. One of my favorite is hypo for 4+ weeks, prazi-pro for a couple weeks, and then a couple weeks of observation.
Fish can live for years. I don't know why we can't wait a couple months before we put them in DT.

Ya, 2 months of quarantine means yet another tank in the kitchen, which reduces the likelihood of me living many years...

Fish can live for years, and I've had some 10yrs + without quarantine. I "quarantine" anything new, but anything new will be while I have the current treatment tank up. After that, nothing new goes in.

[Reef Pilot]

I now always quarantine for 2 - 3 months. My last 2 times, lasted 3 months in total each. It takes that long just to go through the hypo salinity routine (which I now do whether or not the fish looks sick). Plus that time is well spent getting your new fish feeding well, and being strong before having to face their new tank mates in the display tank.

I have a QT ready to go all the time now, with a canister filter that is fully cycled. I change water using my used display tank water, so no extra salt costs.

It can also be connected directly to my DT and used as a refugium. At the moment, actually, I am using it to cure/cook some new rock. So always handy to have a spare tank ready to go when you need it.

I learned my lesson a year and half ago, and don't want to have to go through that again. I can't afford to risk my display tank, and have to tear it apart to catch fish that are sick.

[daniella3d]

That's not usual and surely not any excuse for not doing a proper quarantine. Usually it is quite obvious if there is a disease after 3 to 4 weeks. Of course to be safer is to leave the fish for 6 to 8 weeks, but if there is a disease it is a lot more common to come out after a week to 3 weeks.

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I'm in the same position. Even if I had quarantined, I would have put the fish in the main tank after a month. He didn't get sick until 5 or 6 weeks, so this still would have happened.