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How to properly quarantine your fish (Marine) White Spot Edition
So we get a LOT of questions on how to properly treat diseases in marine fish. The most common of all is Marine White Spot (Cryptocaryon Irritans) also known as saltwater ich/ick disease. For this post we will focus only on white spot, its life cycle and how to treat it. We will touch on other common diseases such as flukes, velvet, brooklynella and intestinal worms later. So what is marine white spot? Marine whitespot is a protozoan parasite, it is one the most common diseases found in almost all home aquariums, if you have purchased a fish with out first...
Pre-Quarantined Fish
It's been a very long 6 months since we decided to shut down a couple of tanks and trail out something that no other shop has done before. PRE-QUARANTINED FISH!!! No, not what importers and our wholesalers are required by the government to do. But to properly quarantine our marine fish. As we have tried to educate 1000's of enthusiast on how to properly quarantine their fish, we realised we need to lead by example and do what we've been teaching for YEARS!