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06/04/2020, 04:42 PM
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do you need to quarantine clean up crew?
any pests attach themselves to snails or hermits?
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06/04/2020, 04:50 PM
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Couldn't hurt. I've had snails come with tiny aiptasias attached, as well as algae.
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06/04/2020, 04:51 PM
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Depends on what you quarantine with copper will kill inverts and snails
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06/04/2020, 06:53 PM
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No. I just give them a swish in tank discard water to remove or dillute whatever water came with them and put them right on in. Never had had a problem traceable to an invert entry and that's in decades.
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06/04/2020, 07:44 PM
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I don't put anything in the tank until it's been observed in quarantine at least 72 days. Everything comes with something on it. Gamble if the something is good or bad.
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06/05/2020, 07:09 AM
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the safest answer would be: yes, QT anything wet.
the longer answer is, inverts are low risk for carrying fish diseases. it certainly could happen, but shouldn't be a significant possibility. ultimately, QT is a risk mitigation strategy, and the risk is never absolutely 0. so you're going to have to decide what's right for your setup. in the last i've employed a second tank, disconnected from my main system, that functions as a long term QT. fully setup 20L is usually how i got. it's fully cycled, and acts as a holding pen either for after TTM (with fish) or just a place to dump inverts to give them some time. i realize this isn't practical for everyone, and i myself have even stopped using this for clean up crew recently, just due to the effort of maintaining multiple systems.
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