Tannin Aquatics
CCA Members
When you first started in the aquarium hobby, do you remember being told stuff like how you have to quarantine fishes? Or did you learn of the practice through necessity and heartache?
I have had a few discussion with both vendors and hobbyists of late where the topic of quarantine, responsibility, and "best practices" in the hobby came up. I've had a few hobbyists really attempt to make the case that it's solely the vendor's responsibility to only offer up healthy fishes that have been pre-quarantined, thus "relieving" the hobbyist of any responsibility- or, as many would say, the 'burden" of having to quarantine their new fishes themselves. (click to read more)
I have had a few discussion with both vendors and hobbyists of late where the topic of quarantine, responsibility, and "best practices" in the hobby came up. I've had a few hobbyists really attempt to make the case that it's solely the vendor's responsibility to only offer up healthy fishes that have been pre-quarantined, thus "relieving" the hobbyist of any responsibility- or, as many would say, the 'burden" of having to quarantine their new fishes themselves. (click to read more)
