Would you want your fish quarantined and medicated for diseases before you buy them or would you want to buy them from a communal filtration system? I posted this topic on another site and some said that it is good for the fish to be put into a communal situation so that they can build up resistance? (he was kind of unclear...)
Quarantine?
- Thread starter rweedon
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rweedon said:
definitely quarantined. I would want to purge all the nasty organisms and parasites from the wild before mixing it with the rest of my collection.
Since most communal filtration systems allow the passage of some protozoals, fungal spores, and bacteria I really don't care for them.
Howdy,
I don't care where they come from, they will be in my quarantine before they get into my big tank.
And we generally have no way of finding out about their history (sterile hatchery, wholesaler, distributer in country of origin, etc.). I don't worry about things I cannot influence.
HarleyK
I don't care where they come from, they will be in my quarantine before they get into my big tank.
And we generally have no way of finding out about their history (sterile hatchery, wholesaler, distributer in country of origin, etc.). I don't worry about things I cannot influence.
HarleyK
I'd rather the fish I buy spend as little time in an lfs as possible. granted some say if you let the fish stay at the lfs for a week or so you can monitor its behavior and see how healthy it is. however on the other hand, how many lfs take good enough care of their tanks that the fish's health won't decline the longer it stays there. I do know of 1 or 2 lfs in Indy that I believe take good enough care of their tanks but that's about it.
I tend to Quarantine new fish for a week or two just to see if they have any problems. Typically a quarantine tank dosed with AQ salt.
