so yesterday while getting some supplies from pet co i decided to get an emerald crab and a turbo snail and i did not name them even though i wanted and put them in the tank AND THEY ARE ALIVE. and if they live till Monday they get a title (like the other fish maybe "crusher of limbs" for the crab)
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also, i know i shouldn't crap on pet co since they somehow have better tanks (which is sad for me) but they have mystory spiky worms, i ask what they are and the guy said worms and i than asked what type and he shrugged
problem is those inverts from petco are probably hooked to the same systems as their fish... which ends up being a potential mode of transmission for ich, velvet tomonts.
well. have extra ich treatment and i made sure not a drop of their water got into my tank but so far they are alive and if that gets me ich i will be very mad but also happy since now i can get invertebrates and i almost never get fish or living things from pet co
It’s no different than lfs.
Snails are easy to qt though. You can keep a few in a 5-10/g tank.
I agree. Just pointing it out.
Agree 100%
The systems at Petco are tiny and more concentrated in one area. They are LOADED with every parasite known to this hobby. If you want a very high risk of introducing ICH or Velvet to your system...buy from Petco and don't QT. Just dump them in.
I've had ICH in the past twice from Petco inverts and anemones. (I think with the anemones they came in with the water inside the tentacles of the anemone.)If you want clean inverts...call John over at reefcleaners as he doesn't house any fish with the inverts. The tanks are basically sterile and inverts are starved.
I have Cheato in a 5/G tank, but just say that reefcleaners also sells macros. Might email John now and ask if any of the macro's are housed with fish which I highly doubt.
Shuuuuush... I’m undercover as Cody!!!
Check this thread tomorrow for the reply. I've already ask two times before from different accounts. He doesn't know this email either.
Both times he's said NO about the inverts being housed with fish. Never asked about the Macro's yet.
I know the Inverts are clean because I dumped them into my tank, because the shells were so clean you could tell they were in sterile conditions without fish.
Both times he's said NO about the inverts being housed with fish. Never asked about the Macro's yet.
I know the Inverts are clean because I dumped them into my tank, because the shells were so clean you could tell they were in sterile conditions without fish.
Now see what y’all made me do. Had to order some 
plants. He better say their not housed with fish when I get that email.
plants. He better say their not housed with fish when I get that email. 
Doesn't work if it's "reef safe".
Tomonts stage of their lifecycle can come in w/o water.
Source: Coral/Invert Quarantine Time Frames
ICH encyst to hard surfaces like snails. You got a 50/50 chance. I’d say Petco is 80/50.
Think of it like this.
A 20/G tank with 15-20 snails on the bottom. Now drop 20,000 grains of salt to the bottom of the tank and hope the salt grains don’t land on any of them.
A 20/G tank with 15-20 snails on the bottom. Now drop 20,000 grains of salt to the bottom of the tank and hope the salt grains don’t land on any of them.
This is why I have a seperate tank specifically for QT of Invert / Coral.
Confirmed 3rd time and as I expected! Clean snails and macro’s. Bye Bye Algae Barn!
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To play devils advocate...
Just because there isn't fish in the system doesn't mean there isn't other pests like Aiptasia, AEFW, etc. I wouldn't really be that worried, but I just wanted to throw that out there.
Just because there isn't fish in the system doesn't mean there isn't other pests like Aiptasia, AEFW, etc. I wouldn't really be that worried, but I just wanted to throw that out there.
There can’t be AEFW because he doesn’t sell Acropora. Aiptasia is always possible. I do know he’s got Vermetid snails, but most of us already have them.
One of the major things for me was not introducing fish parasites. So that one is safe because just about every parasite excluding Uronema would starve w/o the host, Uronema would like be introduced from a fish which he doesn’t have.
