Do you Quarantine your fish?

in a nutshell, Yes all my new fish are placed in QT.

I would like to address your Discus however.

please research Discus, they are a shoaling species and do much better in a school you will also need to be aware of their water needs.

I completely agree with Ed.

Briefly on the discus, they will be much healthier in a group of say 5 minimum, and require careful water conditions. Warmer temperatures than most of the fish we maintain, and very stable. Soft water will benefit, notwithstanding some discus keeps say moderately hard works; it depends upon the origin of the fish.

As for QT, this is something that I never did until about two years ago when I added new fish and a week later began losing existing fish from what turned out to be an internal protozoan in the new fish. Ich is relatively easy to deal with (though it can be otherwise), but these days there are more and more pathogens and protozoan in fish, particularly in commercially-raised fish which also seem to have weakened from wild fish, that QT is a very wise idea. And it is much simpler to deal with ich in a QT.

Byron.

If I am initially stocking a tank, no I don't quarantine. If it is an established tank, yes I do. Mostly. I'm human. I got a call a couple weeks ago that the pet store had finally received some red faced gold severums that I requested months ago. I was just leaving town for the weekend, and rather than put them in an unmonitored and uncycled quarantine tank (I didn't have one set up or a cycled filter to use) I put them directly in the main tank. I considered having the pet store hold them, but I figured that would expose them to even more disease. It was a potentially very stupid move. (And I can't say for sure yet if I won this gamble...)

It really is not a smart thing to do. I have had some serious heartbreak from skipping quarantine. Think 125 gal tank filled with mature angels... I could barely stand to see the tank after pulling out bodies every day. Something like that is enough to make you want to give up the hobby entirely.

wren

If i had the space for a QT tank i would 100% do it. Unfortunately i dont. So when i add a fish, i watch very carefully for weeks before i can settle down and actually enjoy the new fish without worry. Ive only lost one fish this way but its deffinately not a smart decision to skip QT.

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i always quarantine. i routinely treat for ich and do a round of prazi for gill flukes.snails and shrimp i do differently.