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Originally Posted by AJ_77
I also got a healthy-looking clownfish from the same store once. It was dead in 2 days.
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Last time I was in that store, which I love buying corals & inverts there but never fish, I was very werey of their clown fish especially since I seen percula clowns with signs of a parasite infection commonly known as Brooklynella. A parasite that attacks the gills of fish. It's also a kills fast and hard to treat.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...oklynella.html
Now the question is... why when we buy fish in stores does it look fine? You asked the LFS when the shipment came in... last week & its still alive! So it appears to look healthy, doesn't seem shy, is eating and its is still alive and so at the time we purchase. Than later you put in your tank without QT and BAM! A few days or a few weeks, sometimes even a month (depends on the size of your tank) the fish gets infected, or the weaker ones get it first or all your fish become infected.
Well here's the answer...Most all stores run big UV Sterilzers, which CONTROL outbreaks. Since parasites have life cycles the fish is usually not in a tank long enough to get a full blow outbreak. Usually has a new home by then and then its the carrier of the disease. So without QT measures your taking a gamble. *ROLL THE DICE PLEASE.....*
But instead I choose to save myself stress & not gamble.