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05-18-2008, 05:35 AM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 29
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|  Do you Quarantine all new fish?
do you qt all new fish before intro. to main tank? I've been taking alot of heat for just acclimating then putting em in. Is it better to qt? cause I always thought if you qt first it's more stressfull on fish due to 2x acc. + 2x new surroundings = 2x stress. _________ 75gal hex, 2-40w T12 48", odyssea 48" 4x65w PC's w/ lunars, 50lbs LR, 80lbs LS, gold banded maroon clown, dog faced puffer, juvenile blue angel, 2 dominoes, 1-4 stripe damsel, yellow watchman gobie, lawnmower blenny, mano, purple chromis, striped grouper, mexican turbo, astrea and red foot snails, striped, red and blue legged hermit crabs, coral banded shrimp, white and purple bubble coral(very little), red and green mushrooms, orange gorgonian, candycane  Tanks, No Thanks. We Free Dive! | 
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05-18-2008, 05:42 AM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 24
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QT is good if your not receiving the fish from a VERY trusted source. The good thing is that if there are problems you can treat them right there in the QT with no worries, you can even use copper based treatments without harming your reef in the main tank. Right now I don't have a QT cause I'm outta space & money! So a QT is a good thing but not an absolute necessity IMO. _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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05-18-2008, 07:32 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by bmshehan  QT is good if your not receiving the fish from a VERY trusted source. The good thing is that if there are problems you can treat them right there in the QT with no worries, you can even use copper based treatments without harming your reef in the main tank. Right now I don't have a QT cause I'm outta space & money! So a QT is a good thing but not an absolute necessity IMO. | QT'ing fish not only for disease prevention. Gives fish time to "chill out" after very stressing move from reef home to LFS...and before move to your very busy tank.
Might as well let sit in a mild Cu bath as long as it is in there, just for precautions sake. There are other parasites besides ICK, he may be carrying along.
I don't QT as long as I know fish has been at my LFS for few days (and he does use Cu in fish holding tanks.)
QT'ing is never a bad idea. Does reduce risk of new fish introduction.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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05-18-2008, 07:51 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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to Q properly it needs to be done for a matter of months not days or weeks.
I certinly would run a Q tank and Q all new commers if I had a High Priced tank or delicate fish _________ 
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2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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