Quarantine ..... Do you or don't you?

[ponokareefer]

Originally Posted by peasofme

lots of misinformation in this thread. look here for the facts:

http://www.reefland.com/forum/marine...ths-facts.html

Couldn't agree more. Maybe you won't ever have a problem, but if you do, you could wipe out your entire fish population. Is that something you want to risk? Disease/parasites aren't always easy to see and spot and fish can act quite normal when the disease isn't full blown. You'll typically want to use a quarantine tank that is 20% to 30% of the size of your main tank. As others have already pointed out, they are quite simple and unless you have fish in them, they can just sit there running only having to top them up. For the small cost of them and little maintenance compared to the cost of all the fish in a system, it is a no brainer for me.
I also don't understand why a quarantine tank would be more stressfull? They are the first fish in, so there is no quarrell for dominance or being picked on. There are no bright lights to get used to like most people run. There is minimal competition for food. How is that more stressfull than your main tank?