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i wouldn't agree. i always have few sponge filters and power filter running in my sump and just drop them in qt. also i bought fish that looked healthy but it wasnt it had ich velvet black ich and internal parasites luckily i qted that tang and he is fat and healthy now it saved my reef for sure. most fish stores keep their fish in s.g. of 1.020 fish can love inthere but in that s.g. parasites don't show up on the fish they are "hidden". i got 15 fish from a store that is on the other side of the continent. about 2 fish have died (chromis) in firat 24h. never lost fish in qt. one time i didn't qt ,because didn't have room, fish and got ich outbreak lost one of them. i dose prime have amonia allert and zeolit rocks ond bottom glass you are just lucky nothing elseThis is likely to be an unpopular opinion but here it goes:
It is my sincere belief that “hobby grade” quarantine causes more harm than good.
The fish you just got is stressed from travel, probably stressed from being caught in the wild recently and instead of dropping it into your large display tank with plenty of rocks to hide and established chemistry, pods and tank mates you drop it into a tiny tank with freshly made saltwater, possibly no biological filter and a tiny piece of PVC…
I truly believe that more fish have been killed by this process than saved.
If the fish looks healthy I just drop it straight into the display, preferably at dusk, have had zero issues with this method in the last 16 years.
I believe one of the old school reefers was also in this camp, can’t remember his name at this time.
Any one else agree with this?
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