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To those that have multiple tanks, do you have specific “tools” for each tank, or just one set for all???

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I have some specific tools needed for some tanks, but in general I have one set of aquascaping tools I use for all my tanks… however I’ve begun ordering more nets, I think I want a net for each tank, since they come directly in contact with the fish…

Your thoughts and suggestions???
 
I have different nets. I have a set I use for established tanks in which the fish were bred here, or have lived here a long time. They have no apparent running diseases, so I use those nets in all those tanks.
I have another set of nets I use for QT fish. Generally, QT here is lifelong. If I buy petshop fish, they are never combined with wild caughts, due to the probability of them bring diseases in. Farmed fish can have immunities to things a wild caught would never meet, and if you put them together, the better fish often dies.

I also have different coloured water change hoses. I use the same one for filling, but different ones for emptying.

I'm going to visit my pre-retirement big city haunts in a couple of weeks, and I am prepping space and equipment. I'm going to be visiting two dealers in wild caught, uncommon to rare species, so I won't have to worry about farmed fish problems. But one sells only South American fish, and the other should have a selection of my favourite African fish. So they'll have to be kept apart because if they do carry anything, it'll be different from continent to continent. Disease exposure is a key concept to me - a first contact with what can be an ordinary disease in one place isn't just a human problem.

With luck, I'll have a couple of Corydoras species, and a variety of Congolese and Nigerian killies, Cichlids and gouramis/anabantoids. It won't be trusting luck that'll make me have nets(and tanks) for all, separate.
 
I have a shrimp tank that I have allowed the introduction of different types of snails and other invertebrates, my main tanks have always had sterile introductions, ie bleach dip on plants, sterilized rocks and gravel. In addition, I have not had any additions to my main tanks for a couple of years now. I keep two sets of tools because I don't want to introduce unwanted inverts or parasites to the main tanks. For the cost of a net, bucket, etc. it makes more sense to keep multiple tool sets then to introduce a pathogen throughout all your tanks, especially if that introduction requires expensive treatment or kills your friends.
 

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