Introducing disease when adding an anemone?

daniella3d · #1 02-10-2012, 02:58 AM

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.

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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 · #2 02-10-2012, 03:07 AM

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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 · #3 02-10-2012, 03:11 AM

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

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Originally Posted by Myka

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

paddyob · #4 02-10-2012, 04:19 AM

LFS don't usually qt nems and inverts.

Usually right into acclimate and then tank. Possible dip.

daniella3d · #5 02-10-2012, 03:05 PM

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?

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Originally Posted by paddyob

LFS don't usually qt nems and inverts.

Usually right into acclimate and then tank. Possible dip.

marie · #6 02-10-2012, 03:16 PM

I think if it is just a coral (or nem) then the risk of adding a parasite is low. Corals and nems slime up, expand and contract and would make it hard for any parasite to stick there for any length of time. The risk gets greater when the coral or nem is on a rock....the bigger the rock, the greater the surface area for potential problems

daniella3d · #7 02-10-2012, 11:59 PM

that make sense. I was more afraid that some free swimming parasite could have been in the water with the anemone though, but I guess the risk is very low and only the water that was stick to the anemone got into the tank.

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Originally Posted by marie

I think if it is just a coral (or nem) then the risk of adding a parasite is low. Corals and nems slime up, expand and contract and would make it hard for any parasite to stick there for any length of time. The risk gets greater when the coral or nem is on a rock....the bigger the rock, the greater the surface area for potential problems