helpinsmepls
04/19/2010, 01:19 AM
Hello,
Over the years I've read all about Quarantines and just decided that without actually adding preventative curative medicine to the quarantine that they were of little to no use. If a disease, virus, bacteria, or unwanted microscopic organism can be on something and not show any signs of problem within the quarantine period only to show up months after quarantine is over. Infecting that organism or another in the tank. Why quarantine at all unless you treat everything? Right?
I also found allot of contradictions on allot of forums about reef tanks. For example: You quarantine fish but its ok to put corals in your display without quarantine....
"ok to quarantine fish for ich but just add corals, live rock / sand, and other inverts straight to the tank."??? I personally don't agree with what this is saying. Because LR, inverts, corals can carry ich and just not get infected by it. And I am just using ich as an example. There are many other problems I see with how people quarantine, because of the contradictions.
I don't want this thread to turn into a discussion on why to quarantine. Lets assume someone has decided they want to quarantine and they want to quarantine everything. (This is the only way that would make since to me)
Over the years I've read all about Quarantines and just decided that without actually adding preventative curative medicine to the quarantine that they were of little to no use. If a disease, virus, bacteria, or unwanted microscopic organism can be on something and not show any signs of problem within the quarantine period only to show up months after quarantine is over. Infecting that organism or another in the tank. Why quarantine at all unless you treat everything? Right?
I also found allot of contradictions on allot of forums about reef tanks. For example: You quarantine fish but its ok to put corals in your display without quarantine....
"ok to quarantine fish for ich but just add corals, live rock / sand, and other inverts straight to the tank."??? I personally don't agree with what this is saying. Because LR, inverts, corals can carry ich and just not get infected by it. And I am just using ich as an example. There are many other problems I see with how people quarantine, because of the contradictions.
I don't want this thread to turn into a discussion on why to quarantine. Lets assume someone has decided they want to quarantine and they want to quarantine everything. (This is the only way that would make since to me)