Aquagold Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 What do you do when you quarantine new fish? Or do you quarantine at all. I was thinking the other day that there was three most often resulting occurances of fish fatality. What causes it. 1. Not quarantining new stock. 2. Not keeping the water parameters in the right levels. 3 Not feeding the right quality food. What are your thoughts? Rob @Aquagold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljtan55 Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I quarantine, I just leave em in a tank for 3 weeks. If anything comes up I medicate them accordingly - prevents you from needing to medicate your whole tank. Just need a sponge filter and a small barebottom tank for it filled with water from your main tank. And a heater if its tropical. and... 4. fish jumping out of tanks 5. Fish getting eaten by other fish 6. Fish choking after eating another fish 7. Fish getting stressed by other fish wanting to eat them 8. Tanks breaking/leaking 9. Fish getting electrocuted when the heater malfunctions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquagold Posted June 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 Looks like we could have a list of 'All that goes wrong in fish keeping'. The ones I highlighted were thing the owner could look at to maximise their chance in keeping a particular fish/s. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I quarrantine - leave them in a different tank for 4 weeks with either spare filter or sponge filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I quarentine too. It only took one big problem for me to become a quarentine freak :lol: If i cant be bothered quarentining it i dont get it. I use a spare 2 footer with the sponge filter. Nothing that has touched that tank first touches the rest without being sterilised first (which is usually just a bucket). I always do mine for a month at least, sometimes more if i want to grow the fish up a bit. No medications are added unless i see a problem. I reckon if you couldnt handle losing every single fish in the tank then always quarentine, because every new fish into that tank has the chance of doing so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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