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View Poll Results: What do you do with new additions? | |||
Seperate Quarantine Tank every time | 28 | 43.75% | |
Same water system, but a holding tank | 1 | 1.56% | |
Same tank, but seperated by a divider or net | 0 | 0% | |
Just put them in! They will figure it out | 35 | 54.69% | |
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What exactly happened, what caused the wipe out ? |
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I've been hearing about more fish dieing from QT than not Qt...
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LMAO I don't quarantine either. drop in and play.
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I ought to quarantine but am too tired / lazy. Probably gambling and should know better.
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Can someone explain to me how a fish can die from qt? Cleaner or equal water to your display, less current, more hiding spots, lower light and less competition for food. Plus the fact they can live their whole lives without a worry of so much as a single white spot.
I've lost my fair share of fish in qt but very few in my display tank. I am however still guilty of not quarantining everything. While I do dip all corals I occasionally put them directly in display and often within a week or 2. I guess the biggest problem outside of being impatient is I'd only be able to shop for stuff once every 72 days or get like 5 qt tanks. Currently I use a 55 gallon for fish and a 20 gallon if I buy anything while I'm already have fish in qt. I use my frag tank to qt snails crabs and other things but coral do not often make it the entire time. Perhaps eventually I will get a second frag tank as I worry about my Achilles every time I add a coral but never when I add a fish. |
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Lol I should've been more specific. I dip my corals in Rx. Fish I just toss in after 10-15 minutes bag in tank |
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That's because people don't know how to do it. They shove a fish in a tiny tank that isn't cycled or use medication that kills biological bacteria, don't use Prime/AmQuel/etc, and say quarantine killed the fish. No, the quarantine didn't kill the fish, the hobbyist killed the fish. Many people can't even recognize when they have done something wrong - no idea what ammonia poisoning looks like, or which medications to use/when.
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I'm relatively new at this hobby and didn't quarintine at first. The 3rd fish I got, Flame Angel, came with some ich (no charge for the Ich). It died and took another one with it to the big tank in the sky. I ended up setting up a QT and left my display fallow for 6 weeks. Lesson learn the hard way. Now I quarintine EVERYTHING!
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