quarantine new fish???

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[pezpayaso]

How do any of you feel about quarantining new fish?  I've read about it and it seems like a good idea but I wonder how many people actually do quarantine their new fish.  Our fish do fine until we introduce a new one not knowing it is carrying a disease (ich?) and we lose a fish with it.  I was sad to see our big beautiful mean yellow tang go the last time we bought a couple fish.  He was with us for a while.  :?


55 gal. w/ the very basics
1 coralife 10,000K
400 Skilter filter/skimmer
heater, power head

2 clowns, coris wrasse, blue damsel, shrimp, snails, soft corals, hermit crabs, 3 stars

[Yellotang]

I personally have never quarantined a fish. I agree, if you have the right system to do it then that’s great. But remember, when you quarantined a fish, it will have to go through the same stresses when it is time to introduce it to your tank. And most people find it very time consuming and laborious to do one.

All aside though, doing a quarantine system is the best approach.

[Ed]

One of the best fish tanks I ever had was a 45 gallon Fish only tank.  I had  one large Grey angel, A extremely large Niger Trigger, a powder blue tang, a yellow Tang,  I still have pix of it.    That was back in 1991. That is what started me in this great hobby.    I would love to help you.  I am sure anyone else in the group would love to help you.   Take a chance and give someone a call please.  

some of the best things I ever did  while learning about this hobby.
I had one and a half pound of live rock for every gallon of water
I bought a good skimmer
I bought a temperature monitoring device with alarm
I bought a timer to keep my lights on the same times everyday.
I bought test kits or had my water tested in Spokane by Steve to figure out what was changing.
I hope this helps...Ed :wink:

[pezpayaso]

Thank you for your input!     We've decided that we definately need to upgrade our filtration and lighting system and that we probably won't add any new fish until we get things improved.  We also need to be better "fish shoppers" and make sure we get a healthy one.  

[pezpayaso]

Thank you for your input!     We've decided that we definately need to upgrade our filtration and lighting system and that we probably won't add any new fish until we get things improved.  We also need to be better "fish shoppers" and make sure we get a healthy one.  

[Ed]

P,
See if you can feed your fish before you buy it?   Look at fishes eyes also besides thier body for blemishes.   Look at other fish in the same tank to see if they are healthy.. Good luck :wink: