This is not directed at anyone in particular at all.....(just a suggestion for all)
I have noticed a few different threads recently about people fighting this pest and that disease.
Just wanted to toss out a friendly reminder that if you currently have or have recently just had any issues.
Please let anyone you are trading with/sellling to know the issues. Yes it is the buyers responsiblity to dip/QT, however I think the seller also has a responsibity to the community to let the buyer decide if they want to even deal with it.
Obviously everything isn't caught and you can have issues that you don't even know about. It is just nice knowing to keep an extra eye out for something in particular when you are dipping, cleaning the coral prior to QT.
I personally ran into this over a year or so ago when I got some frags from an experienced hobbiest. He had some common flatworms that as far as i could tell didn't cause any problems. However when I found them I was a bit ticked off because i asked him if i should be on the look out for anything and he said no(this was prior to me QT/Dipping). When i called him back he said oh ya, I have those, they are no big deal. I ended up dosing the tank and killing them off, but the issue was that I felt like he should at least have said something.
Remember not everything you consider is a pest is a pest to others. Just like the above example he didn't think it was a big deal and me as a new hobbiest (afraid of anything and everything) felt like someone had just p'd in my cheerios. So try and list off things you think might be considered a pest even if you don't.
That Berghia Nudibranch (eats aptasia) might be a pest to someone who might like aptasia.
Zoa eating nudibranch might be a godsend to the SPS keeper that has zoa's taking over his tank.
Someone might want to collect Majano anemone.
bristle worms (from what i understand only 1 type is a coral predator) otherwise they are good scavangers, but some people kill them anytime they see one.
etc,etc,etc....
Also remember that even people who have been in this hobby a long time don't know everything. They can have an environment in thier tank that takes care of a pest naturally so they might have something and not even realize it because it doesn't get into plague proportions. Try to talk to the person privately if you think they might have something, people get sensitive about stuff like that. It is kind of like walking up to someone in a crowded room and saying you gave me crabs. :witless:
I know from personal eperience that people with a larger tanks and more diversity in the livestock do not have some of the same issues that someone with a nano tank would have. Nano tanks just can't support as many different types of fish/inverts that may help to control/elimnate pests.
I have noticed a few different threads recently about people fighting this pest and that disease.
Just wanted to toss out a friendly reminder that if you currently have or have recently just had any issues.
Please let anyone you are trading with/sellling to know the issues. Yes it is the buyers responsiblity to dip/QT, however I think the seller also has a responsibity to the community to let the buyer decide if they want to even deal with it.
Obviously everything isn't caught and you can have issues that you don't even know about. It is just nice knowing to keep an extra eye out for something in particular when you are dipping, cleaning the coral prior to QT.
I personally ran into this over a year or so ago when I got some frags from an experienced hobbiest. He had some common flatworms that as far as i could tell didn't cause any problems. However when I found them I was a bit ticked off because i asked him if i should be on the look out for anything and he said no(this was prior to me QT/Dipping). When i called him back he said oh ya, I have those, they are no big deal. I ended up dosing the tank and killing them off, but the issue was that I felt like he should at least have said something.
Remember not everything you consider is a pest is a pest to others. Just like the above example he didn't think it was a big deal and me as a new hobbiest (afraid of anything and everything) felt like someone had just p'd in my cheerios. So try and list off things you think might be considered a pest even if you don't.
That Berghia Nudibranch (eats aptasia) might be a pest to someone who might like aptasia.
Zoa eating nudibranch might be a godsend to the SPS keeper that has zoa's taking over his tank.
Someone might want to collect Majano anemone.
bristle worms (from what i understand only 1 type is a coral predator) otherwise they are good scavangers, but some people kill them anytime they see one.
etc,etc,etc....
Also remember that even people who have been in this hobby a long time don't know everything. They can have an environment in thier tank that takes care of a pest naturally so they might have something and not even realize it because it doesn't get into plague proportions. Try to talk to the person privately if you think they might have something, people get sensitive about stuff like that. It is kind of like walking up to someone in a crowded room and saying you gave me crabs. :witless:
I know from personal eperience that people with a larger tanks and more diversity in the livestock do not have some of the same issues that someone with a nano tank would have. Nano tanks just can't support as many different types of fish/inverts that may help to control/elimnate pests.
