Do you quarantine your CUC?

[AlyciaMarie Verified Admin]

My husband and I have a young tank with some recent additions. As we were looking at the tank this morning, we could see that we'll need to add some CUC soon. That raised the question: Should we quarantine our CUC?

After some quick research, I've learned that some CUCs can carry some nasty stuff into your aquarium, but it is rare. On the other hand, I can't think of a single reefer I know personally who has or has mentioned quarantining their CUC.

Do you quarantine your CUC? Why or why not?

 

[Doctorgori]

Depends, some vendors never house inverts and fish, could be disease, could be the lower salinity popular for disease control…
I dump the stock from reefcleaners in directly

 

[randomfishdude]

I don't qt anything :)

 

[AlyciaMarie Verified Admin]

Depends, some vendors never house inverts and fish, could be disease, could be the lower salinity popular for disease control…
I dump the stock from reefcleaners in directly

That was another thing we were talking about...Where could we order from that we would feel safe just dumping them in!

I don't qt anything :)

Ha! Yeah, I haven't yet either. We haven't had any real need to as our tank has been pretty empty until recently. But now that we've got some fancier stuff in the tank, I'm wondering when we pull the trigger on a QT tank...:grimacing-face:

 

[randomfishdude]

That was another thing we were talking about...Where could we order from that we would feel safe just dumping them in!

Ha! Yeah, I haven't yet either. We haven't had any real need to as our tank has been pretty empty until recently. But now that we've got some fancier stuff in the tank, I'm wondering when we pull the trigger on a QT tank...:grimacing-face:

I won't qt unless I get a big big tank. Anyway I'm too broke from other hobby that I can't even afford fish.

 

[Dragen Fiend]

no QT for me. I do have a tank just in case I have to. But so far no. Maybe I just don't get specific fish that are more susceptible?

Float and drop is my motto for my critters.

 

[tedfisher496]

i have never Done any Qt in 3+ years.

 

[AlyciaMarie Verified Admin]

no QT for me. I do have a tank just in case I have to. But so far no. Maybe I just don't get specific fish that are more susceptible?

Float and drop is my motto for my critters.

The float and drop method is what I've done, and so far it's worked!

 

[lil sumpin]

I've gotten CUC from alyssa's seahorse savvy and reefcleaners, both were acclimated and shortly put into tank after. So far so good!