Quarantine: Protect Your Investment

Blue Space

Blue Space

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I just got back from MACNA 2011 and let me just say it was AWESOME!!!!!!! ...!!! :D

After returning home, the first thing I did (besides going through all the free stuff that I scored) was to float my bags of coral frags in my QT tank to begin the acclimation process. While doing this I decided to check out the web for instances of other peoples frags they had got at MACNA to see how they did. Low and behold as I searched through the forums of insanely happy reefers who'd found some amazing frags there were others who got A LOT MORE than what they'd bargained for in the form of zoa, acro, and monti-eating nudibranchs! EEEEK!!!

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I know that I'm just a noob in this wonderful hobby, but thankfully, by paying attention to what many of the well repected RS brethren (and sistren) have repeatedly said -I decided that my first tank would be a QUARANTINE tank.

Here's a funny, yet truthful video that drives the point home if you were thinking, " I'll just dip my new frags, skip the quarantine process, and then stick them directly into my DT..."
 
Blue Space

Blue Space

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I'll be QT'ing the beautiful percs that I'll soon be ordering from you too Woodstock... :D

Not that I don't believe you keep a pristine envirionment for your fish (Which I do -I have read your entire thread (Loved it!) on breeding percs which, incidentally, is reason why I joined Reef Sanctuary in the first place!), but because they'll need that time to recuperate after the stresses of shipping half way across the country. I want those little guys healthy and able to adjust to their new environment with ease.
 
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DavidM

New Member
A quarantine tank sounds like a really good idea. So you will have at least two tanks, right, the QT and the one you transfer things from when they are found to be contamination-free? That makes a lot of sense. I'm new here and just picking up ideas, and I think that one is going to go to the top of the list, lest the Fuehrer get on my case and I end up hanging from piano wire or something. :)
 
Blue Space

Blue Space

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It's not just a good idea, it's a great idea! And you're right the Fuehrer looked really P'd off when he heard about the AEFW!! :D
 
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