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Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I was researching quarantining when I found this article:
Quarantine Causes More Harm than it Prevents
May the doubts begin!
Quarantine Causes More Harm than it Prevents
May the doubts begin!
I say it's a propaganda piece to make sales and increase business. (JK)I was researching quarantining when I found this article:
Quarantine Causes More Harm than it Prevents
May the doubts begin!
Sometimes even dripping a fish is more stressful for a fish. If you have a healthy tank and you know the fish is also healthy the quick 15min temp acclimation is all you need... I personally care more about acclimating the new fish to the new tank mates haha
So, up till now, I've never quarantined a single fish- I've imported box after box of wild caught fish and sold them to folks and have seen very few deaths over the years- I could count them on one hand. A few weeks ago however, I bought a single box of fish and distributed them to 3 entirely different systems, and they all did fine, until a few days ago.
Out of the entire box of fish, only two remain (the bornonius anythias I imagine was sick and jumped as a result), and of the two fish, only one doesn't appear sick. Besides that, not only did the new fish die, but they took all the existing fish with them. In my own tank at the moment, I have the blue throat trigger, who looks sick, and the flame angel who doesn't, and also my original yellow tang, who shows no signs of illness at the moment.
On all of the fish there was ich present, but this was not the cause of death. The amount of ich was minimal and I'm guessing was a symptom of the parasite that actually killed the fish.
Sea Dwelling Creatures suggested it was eye flukes, and one of my local friends thinks it's brooklynella. Slime coat increased, and it appeared as though the fish was shedding skin- especially in the head area, but the entire body of most of the fish was eventually covered. The eyes got foggy, and at the end, they could no longer see. They did eat up until the day they died though, which I found surprising.
Since being as horrible as it was, it was an extremely isolated incident, I have not changed my practices. I still feel a QT tank is more stressful than my display.
I'm letting this play out and what happens, happens. if the tank is wiped out, I'll ghost feed for a couple months and try again (from a different vendor, of course).