Quarantine

[ozy]

I understand that we need to quarantine fishes to prevent diseases. Do we need to do the same for corals?

[SpiderOne]

dun think people do that..

[RAV-65]

was tokking to the boss of sealXXe today and he said that even the quarantine of corals sound stupid... but it should be done...

Vincent Ho

[Achilles Tang]

Corals carry diseases & pathogens and they can spread very quickly too.

RTN can spread in a few minutes and the next hour, you will see tissue peeling off from affected neighbouring corals. I am talking about SPS corals in this instance.

LPS can spread brown jelly disease and other maladies... so rather than risk the main display tank... a quarantine tank for observation and treatment is good.

But too many people are too impatient and lazy to bother.

That's why many of us have parasitic flatworms or nudibranchs in our tanks... or suffer the consequences of RTN spreading in our tanks.

Same reason why we have ich and marine velvet or isopods in our tanks.

[ozy]

Thanx. I will start to quarantine future corals I buy.

[blacknails]

Heh another problem is that not many people have the time and money to setup a Q-tank in the first place... So... Many of us just gotta pray for healthy LS I guess...

[ozy]

no money... i think most people here are richer than me, with the mega horse power chillers, taller than human skimmers and giga watt MHs...

my small QT is just a 1.5 feet simple setup. I am asking this because I have an quite established small ric tank and am quite happy with it. I won't want to do something wrong and jeopardize the setup.