Plastic critter cages submersed in tanks

[Pufferpunk]

Ewwwwww!

 

[ShadowBass]

so you are telling me that if the fish has a nasty case of ich, and you leave it in the same tank as another fish, eventually the other fish won't catch ich once the parasites start free swimming?

The other fish won't necessarily catch ich, but that's beyond the point because it's this that made no sense:

Feeders don't really introduce disease if eaten all at once. As soon as they are eaten, the predator's stomach acids destroy diseases.

Is this like some kind of 5 second rule? If the fish eat them within x amount of time there's no danger?

Feeders can introduce some pretty nasty diseases just coming into physical contact with your fish at all. When a fish bites down on a feeder that's pretty close contact.

Anyone whose not quarantining their feeders and treating them for internal parasites is gonna change their tune when they're treating a nasty case of internal parasites in their fish. Anyone whose not quarantining at all is gonna end up with other problems eventually. (Not counting those raising their own healthy feeders).

 

[wataugachicken]

OP - definitely don't do it. the critter cage WILL crack your tank. it's just too heavy. one time i put a plastic cup into my tank with bloodworms in it, and the stand started to creak so i had to take it out. the weight of the water inside the cup was too much for it to handle.

 

[Onion01]

OP - definitely don't do it. the critter cage WILL crack your tank. it's just too heavy. one time i put a plastic cup into my tank with bloodworms in it, and the stand started to creak so i had to take it out. the weight of the water inside the cup was too much for it to handle.

Fine, I am sorry. Gave more advice than I knew about. This comment, however, makes no sense unless the cup of bloodworms was filled with water and the stand was really weak.

 

[Wolf3101]

Did someone turn the brightness level down on this website? or is sarcasum such a lost art that it's no longer recognized?

 

[JEAE21]

haha sorry guys..
I am dead serious when i post threads.

i'm really new to this aquarium thing, and I don't get the science part of the water being heavy or not so I thought that; since the critter cage doesn't have any holes on the bottom, it will get really heavy underwater since the water in the crittercage can't escape anywhere..

i decided to not do this..i'll try to find one of those mesh quarantine things..

i'll get rosiered minnows instead.

 

[Oddball]

I'm closing this since it has the potential of helping NO ONE yet, is too large and easy a target to ignore.

Besides, just when did the grading curve on S.A.T.s start looking like a sheer cliff in the Grand Canyon?