Should my first fish be quarentined?

[surfer1712]

Should my first fish that goes into my new tank be quarentined or can the first one do without it

 

[fishfreek]

In theory yes it should. The reason for quarinteen is so you can monitor the fish for a period of time and verify its in good health and not carring a parasite or disease.

If it is you can dose the hospital tank instead of doing it in the main tank.

 

[D_Frag]

What fishfreek said... I got burned by that exact same scenerio, and ended up having to dose my main tank with copper, which if you don't know will kill inverts for a long time after you are done with the treatment. It's very very hard to get rid of the copper. 8O

 

[sokhamik]

yeah... copper gets into your ornamental rocks and live rocks and everything and stay there.. it's better to quarantine.. plus like i've stated before, quarantine can be just a little 10g tank and with the price of medicine so high, i think it's a cheaper way to use a 10g dosage than a 95g for me...

 

[surfer1712]

You guys are definiteley right. Thanks for the advice