Tanked Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Everything I've read about quarantine tanks only mentions fish. So if you come home from your friendly LFS with a new bag of snails/crabs/shrimps/etc, are you supposed to quarantine them too. Or are the diseases most aquarists are concerned about fish related only? Link to comment
Angel Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 I quarantine everything, but that is just me. For example, some zoos have predatory nudibranches and I don't want that in my main tank destroying the older/established ones. Granted, most use them for fish, but some of us use them for ANYTHING new that is going into our main tank. I would rather proceed on the side of caution then be sorry later on. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...ight=quarantine http://www.aquamaniacs.net/quarantine.html http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...ight=quarantine Angel Link to comment
palaegic Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 It's funny, most of the pieces of smelly rock we bring home are more expensive than fish - but if I had to guess, most folks do not quarantine inverts and corals. If you are frag-swapping with friends or reef-club, chances are that you needn't be concerned. But as Angel pointed out, not using quarantine could possibly introduce organisms with the potential of wreaking havoc in a nano-reef. Link to comment
clsund Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 If you were to QT coral, what would you do? I brought home a frag from an LFS and then a couple days later, I noticed what look like flatworms on my acrylic. How do you preven that? Link to comment
SeaMountain Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 And here I thought a nano was nothing more than a QT itself! Link to comment
birdman204 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 quarantine, you could siphon them out of the hospital tank or treat w/ say, flatworm exit, with much less worry in a quarantine tank, than in your display. Link to comment
Angel Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 My quarantine tank has saved my display from flatworms, hairy ass crabs that didn't look safe, nudibranches and other hitch-hikers that needed to be researched/identified. I quarantine everything out of a habit that I inquired years ago, for a minimum of three weeks to observe it. The time they are in the QT gives me a chance to find out what they are and if they are reef safe or not without having to tear apart my main display later. I am not sure how long one would put a fish in there for, as I choose not to have them in saltwater. Angel Link to comment
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