Quarantining fish has always seemed like a time consuming, expensive and complicated process. I’ve been lucky and haven’t had any fish with ich, velvet or other parasites in my display tank in the past. That said, there are more and more reports of fish coming in with ich and velvet from the major US importers. I have a clownfish in my tank, Jaws, that has been with me for over 7 years as of writing this. I’m just not willing to risk her health to take a shortcut when adding new fish so I decided to learn what quarantine is really about and what equipment it takes to accomplish it successfully. There is a process that is entirely different for quarantining inverts and corals which I’ll talk about in a later post. For now, let’s focus on fish.
We will start the conversation looking at the equipment needed to successfully quarantine…
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