28 January 2014

quarantine tank

Planning to add more fish to my aquarium, but I want to do it properly and give them a quarantine period, as the pet stores always have some sick/dead fish in the tanks so I worry about disease (even though I avoid buying fish from any tank that actually has sick or dead fish in it, I know they often share water systems). So I've set up my plastic bin as a temporary fish home. It's very minimal, but if I need to use it as a hospital tank that's preferable.

1 comment:

Jeane said...

Turns out this might not be necessary- people on the fish forums tell me it's usually reserved for saltwater fishes or very very expensive fishes. Seems most people just acclimate the freshwater fish and put it straight into home tank, to reduce stress from the many moves.

I'll still keep the setup available for possible hospital tank.