How to QUARANTINE Aquarium Fish! 

For some time now these are easily the best info based videos for freshwater fish , and seriously the awesome bonus is your managing to get them even better . Keeping the hobbyist informed about ..... without all the Aquarium Co-op non-stop product info ETC.

I've always suggested to people to have both a quarentine tank and a hospital/medicate tank so that your quarentine can stay established, unless you don't have an option but to medicate the quarentine tank. Took me awhile to teach myself that.

Great, sound advice. My problem is that my quarantine tank always ends up as a regular tank 😂

This is quite a comprehensive presentation of quarantining. Nice one. I would only add a single idea about a new setup. You can have an "established" aquarium anytime by adding to a new aquarium "media" that is already populated by beneficial bacteria. That media can be a sponge, some lava rock, ceramic rings or any other porous material that you take from a "seasoned" tank or filter. I prefer to have a surplus of media in my established systems, which i can use whenever i have a new setups or a quarantine system.

This short video was extremely informative. Thanks Dan.

I've always kept a perm quarantine tank up and running. But you make a very good point, it's still not 100% guarantee that the new fish going into your tank is disease free. Good one to remember. Thanks,

Once again you hit it out the park. I hit the like button again. All watching hit the like button.

Great content. I am one of those longtime hobbyists that has been keeping fish off and on for the past 30 years. I guess I have been lucky because I have never had an outbreak from the introduction of a new fish. With that being said, it finally happened and lost 15+ fish over a few days. :( I now have QT tank setup and will follow a strict regime when introducing new fish going forward. I have been doing a lot of research about using meds while quarantining and it seems as a hobbyist it may not be necessary. Though, would it be smart to use salt with all new fish in the quarantine? It seems like a much safer way to promote a healthy environment for a new fish that might be stressed.

Beautiful swordtail… looks like a fancy type of swordtail

So I have a question about this process. When we notice an issue in quarantine requiring meds that would might affect the nitrogen cycle or scuds or snails or plants in quarantine tank, and we move the fish to hospital tank for treatment, what do we do with the quarantine tank that has now had fish disease in it? Do we break it all down, clean it out with chemicals, and start the quarantine tank over again with new plants, substrate, established filter from another tank and add snails and scuds again to keep it going? (I assume we only use hospital tank during treatment then move the fish back into quarantine for another length of observation.)

Dan's Fish is always awesome. I'm a believer in having airstones in all my aquariums. Eventually, due to a pea puffer purchase, bad things happened with a fresh quarantine tank. So I switched all my airstones into sponge filters. These are not used for filtration, just aeration. When I need to quarantine now, I have a seeded filter to do so.

hey Dan, I'm guilty of always making a temporary quarantine tank. I usually siphon already cycled water from my main tank into a smaller tank with a sponge filter from the main tank as well as a heater, light and hiding places. So far it has worked out for me because I am kinda strapped for space when it comes to tanks. Do you think it's a safe practice? Great video and information and thanks

so glad I quarantined my last load of endler. The tank was literally brand new. 5.5 gallon . I had cycled it the proper way. A week after I had got them they developed ich. Thankfully I only lost one and didn't have to infect my other fish that I am trying work on a new strain.

i use method one, when i am not using the tank for QT i use it for various breeding projects

Love the straight forward format ! I new here and just subscribed.

Watching this one again. Very helpful

I love this and of course the channel. Thanks for sharing. 🙏👍✌️💗💯

Great advice.

Thank you for this! Great job. Risk mitigation. Love to see the outtakes,.

Thank you Dan for all the clear information!

Way to go, like these videos

Awesome video, this will help many new hobbyists and owners of new aquariums.

Love the content Dan and team! I will keep watching and liking as the videos come rolling in

100% agree with this advice 😊

spot on .

Great content for those who habe ears let them learn

I'm thinking about setting up a quarantine/hospital tank with an extra 10 gallon I have on hand. I'm thinking one way to get around the temporary vs. permanent question would be to keep an extra small sponge filter running at all times in 2 or 3 of my other aquariums. That way, I'd always have a back-up ready, in addition to the one already running in the quarantine tank, should I need to medicate it at any point. After medication, I could just put one of these filters in the quarantine tank, and put the filter from the quarantine in that tank so the bacteria can re-colonize it. Do you think that would work?

So you see a disease, separate from the established quarantine tank to a treatments tank, then what happens to the established quarantine tank? Is it contaminated? Do you use a UV sterilizer? Or what? Thanks

Is there any all in one general medicine for quarantine?

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What is that shrimp at 4:07? Is it saltwater?

Have we thrown Dan into quarantine?!? Will we ever see him again?!? 😂 Maybe if he gets over those anchor worms???