Quarantine Tanks

[hoopsdaddy]

Wondering.
Who uses a quarantine tank for new fish that show no visable signs of illness? What I have found doing my research says quarantine for 2-4 weeks. Do you?

1.Everytime
2.Sometime
3.Dip and put in display
4.Float and release

[dustin_P74]

i float, dip, release

[hoopsdaddy]

I think you answered before I posted. Show off!

[dustin_P74]

i try

[Alexander]

I rarely buy new fish and i have a large tank..... so i roll the dice and float and release. Most of the fish i buy would stress in a small QT anyways. If I ever get into really expensive corals I will quarantine those for sure. I have seen monti eating nudibranchs that hide on a monti and will destroy the entire DTs montipora population. And there is really no natural way of ridding these things. just have to start over.

[dustin_P74]

an iodine dip will take care of them alexander

[ccCapt]

I quarantined every fish I get for at least 3 weeks. If I didn't see any signs of parasites I wouldn't do any treatment. For 20 years this method worked and I never had a fish in my tank get ich.
The only thing I do different now is I treat every fish for internal parasites/worms since I lost a few anthias from what I believe were internal parasites/worms.

[daugherty]

all the fish that i buy get qt at the lfs for 4 to 5 weeks until they are sold i pushed the wrong button but i usually just float and release. the lfs has copper in the tanks and a large 4 bulb uv on the return side of the system. if one tank has something nothing gets from that tank to a different one.

[ccCapt]

That's a good LFS that takes the time to qt their fish. There used to be a LFS near me that did that too, but they closed....lol.
I hope your not just dumping the fish in your tank with the water that has copper in it.

[daugherty]

no no i use a bucket and dumo the fish in a net then rinse them off i another bucket of water from my tank then in the tank they go. i never add water from a different system even if it is from a invert or coral tank.