Do you quarantine your new fish
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I have not QT'ed a fish in all my years of fisk keeping, also never have I had a prob with doing this, but thats just me 
Me neither. In all my years (i'm 25 and have been keeping fish since i can remember), I've never quarantined any fish and have never had any problems - and I dont plan on starting to qt fish either...
Ive got a question, you guys who QT, what type of filtration do you run on your QT? I dont have an established filter laying around to throw on another tank, and it seems that if I put a new filter on there it would be pretty much useless. Do you just add water from the fish's eventual tank daily or something?
Going back to the original post, I think the point was that his normal supplier has gone out of business so he will be acquiring fish from a new untrusted source.
I'm sure everyone else here gets used to dealing with certain suppliers and gain the knowledge of what they do.
On our discus tank we used to always get fish from a local guy who imported them and wouldn't sell them until he'd treated them and they'd been QTed for a month, with a money back guarantee a year after purchase, so sure he was that they were free of disease.
I would always use a QT but it depends on who you get the fish from I suppose, if a good relationship has been built up over the years and you understand what the dealer does it could be argued that it not necessary in certain cases.
Just my opinion
I'm sure everyone else here gets used to dealing with certain suppliers and gain the knowledge of what they do.
On our discus tank we used to always get fish from a local guy who imported them and wouldn't sell them until he'd treated them and they'd been QTed for a month, with a money back guarantee a year after purchase, so sure he was that they were free of disease.
I would always use a QT but it depends on who you get the fish from I suppose, if a good relationship has been built up over the years and you understand what the dealer does it could be argued that it not necessary in certain cases.
Just my opinion
Seriously a year!, I'd post the link but due various problems at the time he sold the business around 6 months ago and shortly after it disappeared and so has the site. You had to pay around $10 a year extra for the year guarantee over the year, so any fish bought over that time would be covered for the extra $10. Or you could pay an extra $2-4 dollars(memory and currency conversions allowing) for a 30-60 day guarantee, all that was required was a water sample, if water params were in range of the fish at the time it was sold, new fish for freeGr8KarmaSF;1712035; said:
Yanbbrox;1711999; said:
You are totally correct. I dealt with a friend who imported his africans from africa and raised them here. He was actually the main supplier of africans to most of the lfs in my area. he went out of business when the fish market in this area went south and alot of stores closed. Now i am checking out stores to buy from and its a little scary when you know how much you have in your tanks. So i will be setting up one of my 55g tanks as a quarantine. and keep the fish in it for about 2 to 3 weeks before i add them to the established 180
My QT/Breeder tank is a 20 gallon long. Bare bottom with a very large sponge filter in it. A couple of rocks and a few clay flower pots. Easy to clean. Easy to get the fish out of. Easy to maintain....
Ok my question to the guys that use QT tanks....do you keep some sort of fish in there to keep the BB in the filters alive? Even when not QT'ing any fish? Because, if there are no fish to provide a source of ammonia any BB will die of....??
