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I do about a two hour bath in an antibacterial cocktail added to the acclimation bucket and then put my new arrivals directly in my sump for a month before adding them to the display tank. I feel that qt can be way to harsh and only serve to weaken their immune system. Especially on more delicate fish who may already be weak from all the transport and May not be eating when you get them. The water from my sump must travel through an oversized UV light to get back to the display tank. If I were to start to see any issues, then I would remove them but to date, I’ve isolated about 12 fish with this method and had zero issues. I feel like we can overdo it with all the drugs and sterilization. Look at the killer whales at sea world. They wouldn’t even survive in captivity now without being pumped full of antibiotics constantly as their immune systems are shot.