Introducing disease when adding an anemone?

[Aquattro]

Well, if it was wet, it's a risk. How great? Dunno, but you seem to put a lot of effort into quarantine, hate to mess it up this once, no?

[George]

I will let them be in QT for 4+ more weeks if your QT has enough light for the nem.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Well, if it was wet, it's a risk.

Agreed. Anything wet technically should be quarantined to maintain complete diligence, however most people are not this diligent.

Personally, I dip all corals, and quarantine all fish. Shrimp, crabs, anemones, etc aren't regarded in my quarantine/dipping efforts. Albeit, I do dip snails in coral dips, though not for very long as they can often carry things like flat worms.

[daniella3d]

Usualy when I get a shrimp I don't quarantine it. I take it out of the bag after acclimatation and put it in my tank without droping water from the bag, so only water that is on the shrimp might be a risk.

I also did that for my long tentacles anemone about 2 months ago, acclimated it 4 hours and took it out of the bag in my hands and in the tank. I did the same thing for my clam, and for my others previous anemones, 2 rock flowers and one maxi mini.

But after reading so many horror stories about parasites I now realize that I was lucky not getting anything nasty, or is the risk so low that it is not worth to quarantine those...that's what I was wondering about.

Originally Posted by Myka

Agreed. Anything wet technically should be quarantined to maintain complete diligence, however most people are not this diligent.

Personally, I dip all corals, and quarantine all fish. Shrimp, crabs, anemones, etc aren't regarded in my quarantine/dipping efforts. Albeit, I do dip snails in coral dips, though not for very long as they can often carry things like flat worms.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

...or is the risk so low that it is not worth to quarantine those...that's what I was wondering about.

Well, I'm not sure about a scientific standpoint, but I would consider inverts like shrimp/nems to be much less of a threat simply because they don't have any live rock. Snails' shells are like mini live rocks though, so I do consider snails to be a threat. Sorry, that doesn't really answer your question too well. Maybe there is some more authoritative information out there.

[daniella3d]

I will definitly quarantine a few more weeks, but I am really curious about this.

Originally Posted by Myka

Sorry, that doesn't really answer your question too well. Maybe there is some more authoritative information out there.

[paddyob]

LFS don't usually qt nems and inverts.

Usually right into acclimate and then tank. Possible dip.

[daniella3d]

Ok but many LFS have ich, marine velvet and brook in their tanks, so is a LFS a reference?

Does liveaquaria do the same with anemone?

Originally Posted by paddyob

LFS don't usually qt nems and inverts.

Usually right into acclimate and then tank. Possible dip.