gefilte
Aquarium Advice Regular
I have already lost my first school of fish to a combination of ich, stress and a homocidal yellow tang. I am letting my tank go fallow for 4 weeks before I get any new fish. I went by one of the 2 LFS that I frequent and told him of my plans to set up a QT now, so I make sure to have healthy fish in the display tank. He told me that he advises against a QT because the water quality needs to be twice as good as your display tank to work correctly AND they will NOT warranty fish that I put in a QT. He says the problem is that most LFS purchase fish from wholesalers who may keep fish in questionable quarters and feed them a minimum to keep overhead down. This LFS says they buy all of their fish from collectors and check each fish before putting them out and would not put a fish out for sale if he had ich or any other sign of distress. (One of my fish had ich going into the tank unbeknownst to me that came from the other local LFS and when I went back, they sold me some medicine and I could see the ich on the rest of the fish in the tank.) SOOOO, what say you? QT or NOT?