Quarantined Ornamental Marine Fish & Induced ICH Resistance Optional
We know how important and special fish and marine species are to you.
For this reason, as part of the Animal Welfare Campaign and KUXTAL KALAN, we have enabled the ICH Quarantine & Induced Resistance service so that, added to your patience and care, your fish can develop in health and harmony.
Did you know..?
When a fish arrives by import it is subjected to different conditions that generate stress and require vital recovery time.
They generally travel at low salinities (up to 1016) to prevent deadly pressure changes on the voyage and parasitic issues. In addition, on many occasions relaxants and chemicals are added to the water that can affect your nervous system if they are not removed carefully.
The movement, possible changes in temperature, carelessness and eventual untimely noises seriously wear and scare the fish.
A fish that is not properly acclimatized and quarantined increases its risk of mortality by up to 80%.
For this reason, it is essential to provide them with adequate rest and adaptation time at each stopover on the trip to the final destination.
Salinity adjustments must be made for at least 5 to 8 days to avoid generating a new traumatic event. Maximum 1 or 2 salinity points should be raised per day. Subsequently, allow their adaptation in peace free of competition and other aggressive organisms. Promote a calm adaptation to the new food and environment.
Quarantine is a period that allows you to regain strength and adapt without damaging your body with the right time, it is also a time to detect possible parasites that you could carry and introduce to other systems.
Mayan Lab Quarantine: where the water adapts to the fish and not the fish to the water
However, in addition to the above, a large percentage of healthy fish face arrival in systems where there are parasites (sometimes already mutated by so much use of drugs & chemicals) with which they did not previously live and are not prepared to combat them.
Remember that even after months of apparently not having sick fish in your system, that does not imply that there is no latent parasite. Nature is wise and makes her own adjustments. Well, what happens is that the inhabitants have already developed resistance.
For this reason, it is common that when new apparently healthy fish arrive, they get sick in the following days, and in the worst case, an epidemic outbreak is generated. These outbreaks can then become dangerous and put multiple residents at risk.
In summary, it could be said that when a new fish arrives, 3 options can happen
1. Quarantined but Weak: this specimen dies only before 15 days. In most cases because it faced a pathogen in your system while weak. Unknown to him and to which the other inhabitants were already resistant.
2. Not quarantined & infected: That specimen dies and also infects others, generating massive mortality. Most likely because it was a carrier of mutated pathogens from contaminated systems. In general, quarantines managed with copper and hyposalinity, which when suddenly withdrawing the medicine are left exposed and unprotected in your system. When you buy the fish it seems to be clean, but that is because they are kept in systems with copper and hyposalinity and they appear healthy. When you acclimate them, they remain unprotected and with the latent disease.
3. Quarantined & Resistant Fish: the fish was vaccinated and if there are pathogens in your system it will already have the first weapons to deal with it. If you get sick you will only have a mild or moderate infection that will develop more resistance without causing an epidemic outbreak in other inhabitants.
Well, Inducing Extra ICH Resistance to the fish is a second period optional, that allows preventing deadly outbreaks when a fish without resistance reaches an aquarium with parasites present.
The previous inhabitants may have resistance and not show any symptoms, but the arrival of a new and weak fish is an opportunity for parasitic outbreaks to develop that, if poorly attended, can become epidemic.
Applying a Yaax Reef Safe Procedure is also very useful when introducing new fish.
When we do the induced resistance protocol, a non-invasive clinical period is extended. During this period the fish is induced to develop basic resistance against typical aquarium diseases such as Cryptocarion Irritans (marine ich), Oodinium (Velvet) through controlled exposure to weak strains & early pathogen treatments.
In this way, in case of being infected when arriving at your aquarium, the possibility of developing a fatal or epidemic condition decreases.
If your aquarium has previously suffered from any of these diseases, it is preferable that you opt for vaccinated fish so that they do not run the risk of lethal infection when they reach your system and avoid losses.
Fish under the care of Mayan Sea Lab are patiently quarantined and observed for their correct adaptation.
You can buy available stock already quarantined and / or request to also be vaccinated. You can also schedule an order for specimens from the marine fish catalog.
Specimens upon request have a delivery period of 20 to 40 days, depending on the species, health and strength of the fish.
Allowing your fish a dignified adaptation and quarantine reduces up to 90% its risk of mortality upon reaching your system.
Butterflies, Surgeons all kinds, Gobies, Angels, Perculas, Clown, Fox Face, etc.
Our quarantines have been designed in the Natural Scalar POC & Trophic Chain method, 100% copper free to prevent blindness or liver and internal damage.
Under our care, your fish will be assessed and cared for daily until its safe departure is authorized. Mayan Sea Lab gladly assumes the risk in exchange for your patience, the most valuable thing you can give to your Aquarium.
The fish wins, you win We all win!
A guide for proper acclimatization when you get home is also included.
All fish from Mayan Sea Lab have follow-up and clinical advice via post-delivery chat.
Thank you for taking care of your Reef!