Comments on: Quarantine Aquariums – More Than Just Disease Prevention

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:27:08 +0000

The only people that think quarantining is a waste of time are the ones that have yet to learn the hard way. One un-quarantined fish = 4 dead fish. Ironically, the new fish survived.

Montipora nudibranchs were also a product of not quarantining. That cost me 2 digitata, a decimated capricornis, and 2 years trying to get rid of them.

If you love your fish & coral and want to save money YOU MUST QUARANTINE!

By: Jestep

Jestep — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:14:05 +0000

Something that many people fail to take into consideration is how difficult and expensive it is to remove an unknown nasty in a large tank, or even a 55 gal for that matter.

Something like a simple ich or fungus outbreak could cost $20 – $30 to treat assuming that you don’t lose any fish. If you have to medicate with antibiotics, is can cost $50 or even more. This is all assuming you actually know what the intruder is, and you know how to properly treat it.

Depending on what you get in your tank, the only treatment may be euthinization, or some scorched earth campaign.

My best advice is to keep an additional hang-on-back or cannister filter attached to the main tank, that you can switch over to the quarantine tank to avoid having to cycle it. No matter how small or how clean the tank is that your fish came from, put it in the quarantine until you can be sure it’s clean.

By: Tracy Marie

Tracy Marie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:07:22 +0000

I meet so many people who are new fish owners that think quarantining is a complete waste of time. I am so happy to see your article! I preach this all the time, since it is so essential when introducing new fish. Thank you again for reiterating this most important step!

By: kim molner

kim molner — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:31:11 +0000

Thanks for this post I enjoyed it.