Fish from Quality Marine

[abrian]

So I know that best practices are to quarantine every new fish before adding to your display and when I first set it up I did QT all my fish. But, now its been a while and the QT is long gone. I want to add a tailspot blenny to my display and am reluctant to buy a tank and set it up to QT one small fish. I've heard that Quality Marine does a pretty good job screening their fish and doing their best to ensure they are healthy before they go to the LFS. If I can arrange it I would try to get the fish before it even entered the LFS system.

My question is what are people's experience with fish from QM and how would you measure the risk of adding a fish from them without QT first? I know its a gamble, but unless there is a local source for quarantined fish my other choices are basically to gamble or go without the fish. If someone local does do QT for a bit of a price mark-up please let me know.

Thanks for your input. - Alan

[Drama D]

Hit up rastas reef, let him know what fish you want and if he can quarantine it for you until it's ready. Great guy offering great services for us local reefers

[hydrahawk]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Although another tank, filter, lights, heater, NH4 badge and meds might seem another investment but if you plan on adding more fish in the future, this might be a small investment. I do get fish from QM from Dan at Shipwreck Cove, however, I still QT the fishes. Just google uronema and velvet on reef2reef. Only takes one to potentially kill off your entire fish population.

[abrian]

Hit up rastas reef, let him know what fish you want and if he can quarantine it for you until it's ready. Great guy offering great services for us local reefers

Thanks for the tip, I’ll reach out to him.


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[LotsaFishies]

I have heard many people claim that QM fish are the best around.

The QM fish I have seen in several LFS appear to have the exact same issues / likelihood of Ich as non-QM fish..

[abrian]

Thanks for the feedback. I seem to have found a solution that will work without rolling the dice and gambling on introducing something nasty to my display.