Hannibal
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At first I wasn't going to share this story out of pride, but have since changed my mind in the event that it might help someone else in the future.
I will say that in the 4-5 years of keeping fish I have never had a quarantine tank for new fish, I would just dump them in with the others and everything was golden. That was up until the week of our last meeting.
I was at one of the box stores picking up dog supplies and wandered over to the fish as I usually do. They had black tetras on sale for a buck each, so I bought the 7 or 8 that they had. Came home and added them to my 30 cube not thinking anything of it. I do not feed my fish everyday so it a day or two before I went to feed them. When I went over to the tank all of the new tetras and my other tetras were dead. The few cories and the albino bn pleco in the tank seemed ok, so I scooped out the dead and did a water change. The next day was our Feb meeting. During the auction I decided that I wanted to bid on Chris' Temporalis shell group since I had never kept them before and had an almost empty 30 breeder. I got them and when I got home needed to move the fish that were in there so they had the place to themselves. I scooped the cories out put them in my 10 gallon that is growing plants and dropped the BN in my 40 breeder planted project.
I checked on everyone the next day and all was well. A few days go by, so I go down to feed the fish and walk into a whirlwind of death. All of the shellies in the 30 are dead, 95% of the fish in my 40 breeder are dead and the others are literally covered in ick. I flipped out scooped all of the dead fish, did water changes, and reluctantly picked up ick meds from the same box store that started this all.
In the end I lost everything in two tanks except for 4 Corydoras Habrosus. I was super bummed, angry, and just wanted to sell everything an stop keeping fish. But I am still here and have learned a very valuable lesson to always quarantine your fish or risk losing all of your fish.
I am sure many of you already know to quarantine but for anyone that is new to the game hopefully this helps you.
I will say that in the 4-5 years of keeping fish I have never had a quarantine tank for new fish, I would just dump them in with the others and everything was golden. That was up until the week of our last meeting.
I was at one of the box stores picking up dog supplies and wandered over to the fish as I usually do. They had black tetras on sale for a buck each, so I bought the 7 or 8 that they had. Came home and added them to my 30 cube not thinking anything of it. I do not feed my fish everyday so it a day or two before I went to feed them. When I went over to the tank all of the new tetras and my other tetras were dead. The few cories and the albino bn pleco in the tank seemed ok, so I scooped out the dead and did a water change. The next day was our Feb meeting. During the auction I decided that I wanted to bid on Chris' Temporalis shell group since I had never kept them before and had an almost empty 30 breeder. I got them and when I got home needed to move the fish that were in there so they had the place to themselves. I scooped the cories out put them in my 10 gallon that is growing plants and dropped the BN in my 40 breeder planted project.
I checked on everyone the next day and all was well. A few days go by, so I go down to feed the fish and walk into a whirlwind of death. All of the shellies in the 30 are dead, 95% of the fish in my 40 breeder are dead and the others are literally covered in ick. I flipped out scooped all of the dead fish, did water changes, and reluctantly picked up ick meds from the same box store that started this all.
In the end I lost everything in two tanks except for 4 Corydoras Habrosus. I was super bummed, angry, and just wanted to sell everything an stop keeping fish. But I am still here and have learned a very valuable lesson to always quarantine your fish or risk losing all of your fish.
I am sure many of you already know to quarantine but for anyone that is new to the game hopefully this helps you.
