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But don't you also have like a vendetta against qt for some reason?I don’t qt anything and haven’t in the 15 years in this hobby.
I have been occasionally making this argument for many years as a way to, perhaps, explain why some folks are successful with ich management and others not. No way to prove it unfortunately, but it does make observational sense to me. Excellent post, BTW.One thing you need to keep in mind is there almost certainly are tank adapted variants and some are more virulent than others.
A very good analogyMy analogy is like wearing a sea belt. You might go a long time not doing it, and nothing happens. But the day it does, it just might be catastrophic. I've stopped brook, uronema, and ich at the quarantine tank, saving my DT fish from possible death. Heck, I was just at a LFS and counted six tanks with dead fish. Watched a gramma and coral beauty die while I was shopping. Definitely some bad going on in their system. I wonder how many bought fish out of those tanks today, and dumped them in their DT. Me, I walked out empty handed even with a strict quarantine process. It's all about your acceptable level of risk.
Thank you! It seems to me a reasonable and the most plausable explanation for what I've seen but you are correct we do need further study to verify or disprove it. When I started my maintenance business back in the dark ages getting ick in a system was the kiss of death and often I'd see or hear about entire systems being wiped out. It's rare I hear that happening now.I have been occasionally making this argument for many years as a way to, perhaps, explain why some folks are successful with ich management and others not. No way to prove it unfortunately, but it does make observational sense to me. Excellent post, BTW.
Hello guys I am so so so confused. Should i quarantine or not? A lot of “famous” people on youtube like reef dork, inappropriate reefer, and fish of hex dont quarantine their fish and they have proof of how successful their reef tanks are.
Based on my experience I am an advocate of 1-4 months of quarantining your fish, because i have personally lost thousands and thousands of dollars after not quarantining before on my Fowlr and my nano reef years back.
Now once again I am seeing a lot of people not quarantining fish. I just started my new aquarium and I heard before that I should quarantine before putting it on my DT but what if there are 0 live stocks in there other than a quarantined sps and CUC.
I'm a big fan of PaulB's method of not quarantining and providing your fish a healthy, varied diet of fresh/live/frozen foods. I've never quarantined a single fish and ever since I feed them a quality diet (no flakes or pellets at all), I haven't lost a single fish due to disease.
I'm not saying you can'tYou can still feed quarantined fish a quality diet.
I don't qt for my freshwater tanks
LOL .... though if I had to fallow my entire house to rid my dog of fleas, I might choose 'flea management'As far as the notion "ich Maintenance" that seems to me like saying a fleas or ticks are ok to leave on dogs and cats. If there are parasites in a system not taking steps to eradicate it as the same as leaving ticks and fleas on our pets.