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Retroactive Quarantine?
I've recently setup a new 55 gallon tank. I let it run for a while,
then stocked it with a bunch of plants and three tetras from my LFS. Yesterday, I read on the skepticalaquarist.com a strong argument for quaratine for new fish, and for salt and parasite treatments, and for treating plants as well. It sounds like a really good idea. My question is, if I were to quantine my fish now, in a small tank that I could treat and change lots of water on, would my main tank be sterile in a month, having been free of fish (but not snails)? If things would live on in the main tank anyway, what would be a good course of action? Thank you muchly. |
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oups.com... I've recently setup a new 55 gallon tank. I let it run for a while, then stocked it with a bunch of plants and three tetras from my LFS. Yesterday, I read on the skepticalaquarist.com a strong argument for quaratine for new fish, and for salt and parasite treatments, and for treating plants as well. It sounds like a really good idea. My question is, if I were to quantine my fish now, in a small tank that I could treat and change lots of water on, would my main tank be sterile in a month, having been free of fish (but not snails)? If things would live on in the main tank anyway, what would be a good course of action? Thank you muchly. Your strategy assumes that any pathogens were waterborne parasites which would die without a host, or bacteria which would dilute and vanish. I don't know if that's a valid assumption. The value of a small quarantine tank is that it allows you to more closely inspect the condition and progress of the fish (their consumption of food, emptying their bowels, coloration and behaviour). Personally, I think that you should not bother, and your entire tank is now a defacto quarantine tank. The requirement to quarantine also extends to plants, but this requirement decreases with the time the plants have not been exposed to fish (but in a pet shop, wet nets, fingers and splashes tend to travel broadly, so I don't know what that isolation is really worth ;~). jmo, ymmv -- www.NetMax.tk |
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Yeah. I wan't going to go adding heaps of chemicals to my setup or
anything. Basically, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to separate them off, so that if they did show problems, I would have a smaller sick tank on my hands. I'll just stick with what I've got now, though. Thanks. |
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