If you think people on Guppylog are fanatical about getting a quarantine tank, take a look at what the better informed marine aquarists say. Essentially they are saying, "If you can't afford a quarantine tank, your really will not be able to afford to replace all of the wonderful fish you will kill."

And I'm sure that with all of the time you have spent on and around Guppylog that you had a chance to read the comments on quarantine tanks in Immediate Help. (Visitors, as time permits, please read them.)vise

We all get in the "penny wise, pound foolish" mode. But it is a very unwise thing to do in many situations, sort of like "oh I can go another 10,000 miles without changing the car's oil."

When we were kids (what is there about the XY chromosome which makes guys pyromaniacs?) we used to get a foot long narrow copper conduit pipe and crimp an end tight using a vise. Then it was filled with match heads laboriously cut off of the sticks (yep, the infamous match bomb). Lastly a fuse was inserted and that end was much more carefully crimped shut. The "missile" could be set on top of a post in a grape arbor. The fuse was lit and that would shoot across the yard and into a neighbor's yard. What fun!

It wasn't yet illegal as far as we knew. But even we knew it was risky and that was a part of the allure. Sometimes it is amazing that we grew up reasonably whole.