To quarantine, or not to quarantine........

[Iron Maiden]

I was just wondering how many people really quarantine every fish before introducing them to their main tank. Or does everyone take a chance now and then and skip the quarantine. This question came to mind after another visit to my favorite LFS. I purchased two large yellow tangs that have been in their tank for two weeks and have been eating well. I figured that that would have been ample time for any illness to show up. They are doing fine and eat like pigs! But then there are some LFS's that I wouldn't dare put trust in like that.

[ghostrida3]

i used to just observe the fish at the lfs and if they looked good throw them in. but eventually i would get one that looked fine and when i got it home it would be ok for a couple of weeks and then get sick or have ick and wipe everything out so now i qt everything aggresively for 2-3 weeks.
Its cool looking at ur tank knowin that no ich is gonna pop up.

[mdrumm]

i take the chance. So far so good but I know I am playing russian roulette with this one.

[Andrew]

You should Qt every fish you add to your tank or else you are just asking for trouble and have a good chance of introducing a disease into your tank. I myself would rather not take that chance.

[GoingPostal]

I don't, but I very rarely buy new fish and they all come from Drs. Foster and Smith. Also I'm not buying tangs or anything really touchy, my stocklist is a maroom clown, royal gramma, clown goby and sixline. I did buy a black and white clown from swf for another tank and qt just in cause, which turned out to be good idea since it died of brook. However I would never buy anything from stores locally and throw right in my tank.

[happyface888]

Lesson learned bought some fish from fish store do the usually toss them in. A serious case of ich wipped out everything. GG now I have to start from scratch so QT is safer.

[Gdevine]

I take the chance if the fish is acquacultured as they tend to be much more hardier then caught.

[bureau13]

I quarantine all fish unless I have some reason to believe a particular fish won't do well in my QT. An example is my Regal Angel...I've heard they don't do well in QT, so I found what appeared to be a healthy specimen and put him straight into the display. I realize that's taking a chance, but I decided to take the risk because I wanted this fish. So far so good...

jds

[Tang Salad]

Unbelievable! This topic gets entirely different responses on this forum depending on when it's asked.

All I'll say is that it's up to you.