Mandarins, like clowns, are very ich resistant.
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Mandarins, like clowns, are very ich resistant.
Algaebarn’s fish are not disease free. But they do their best to ensure everything they are sending to their customers are healthy.
They postponed one of my orders because they had to treat a CB blue tang. They did end up compensating me for the wait.
We unfortunately do not always receive healthy fish. All of our systems are isolated from one another (will go into detail in a coming post). We never ship any fish that we suspect has a disease. It's just not fair to our customers.
Hey @AlgaeBarn care to comment on if your fish are likely to have ich, flukes, velvet brook, internal parasites, etc...
I hope my post didn’t sound like shade. I’m glad I wasn’t sent a sick fish.
They have promised me that they keep their inverts separate from the fish. The fish probably go through the wholesaler where the tangs picked up a parasite; unless it was a bacterial infection. I'd like to know but have not asked them. They would be parasite free directly from Biota.
In the past, I have purchased many inverts from them and not quarantined them. However, I managed to get velvet in the DT and all my remaining fish are in QT and the tank is fallow. I either cross-contaminated it or it came in with an urchin. I suspect my error but I can't be sure. I only put them in suspicion because I knew about the tangs in treatment. The fish I put in QT never had any symptoms and looked perfect, still do after 2 months in QT with nothing but PVC.
I thinking about one of their yellow tangs but I'm out of QT space.
BTW it took a solid three weeks before the velvet was obvious. I would not consider a two-week observation long enough anymore.
Hi @AcanthurusRex, We keep all invert systems fallow, and they are separated even further by vendor. We never sell anything that we suspect would transfer disease/parasites. One idea we have floating around would be a 72 day fallow period for inverts, but we would have to setup a large number of systems to allow for multiple incoming batches, There are certain inverts that we are looking at captive breeding inhouse (to guarantee pest free status), but we are finishing up our copepods/phyto/macroalgae push at the moment. There is nothing like a new, shiny project to try to distract me from finishing up the old ones
The blue tangs came in from a wholesaler (not biota). They were kept in an isolated system and were not able to infect/contaminate/spread outside of the system.
We are likely the closest thing to buying direct from Biota. All of their fish are isolated in their own system. We do not share equipment/water between vendors.
With all of the fish we receive, we make sure they are eating and are healthy and with the right care, go on to live a long life. Unfortunately, this does end up showing us as out of stock more often (as we will actually have the fish, but we will be fattening them up, not sure how much other vendors do this). When customers buy captive bred fish from AlgaeBarn, they will always receive a fish in excellent health. It's just not fair when you receive a skinny fish. Our ultimate goal is customers to experience a fantastic live goods order from us.
FYI, We have space planned for a cleanroom (actually a negative pressure "cleanroom") quarantine area to guarantee disease/parasite free, but we need to sell some more fish to fund this project