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Dragonsreef is correct. If you want to quarantine, do it in such a way as the fish are not stressed as that will cause any pathogens to take over your fish as fish for some reason lose or slightly lose their immunity when stressed.
I of course know about the ocean scenario that there is much more water in the sea then a tank and I understand it. It is the reason fish in the sea don't die from ich or velvet.
I can't tell from here if fish can definitely become immune to velvet. I am an electrician and not a fish.
Velvet is just another parasite, more virulent maybe, but a parasite that a fishes immunity should be well able to protect against. No scientific study goes longer than my tank has been up so it is hard to study. But fish in the sea should have in the 50,000,000 years that they have been living with velvet become immune from it by now. I am guessing of course.
As I always say, I find it difficult that I can keep a tank going very healthy for 50 years and I have "never" introduced velvet. From what I see on the 5 or 6 forums I am on, the stuff is pretty prevalent.
I don't have a specific LFS and buy from anyplace where ever I am at. I probably frequent 6 or 7 of them and I also collect from the sea. In the past I have put local flounders, stripped bass, fluke, sea robins, eels and many types of crabs, sponges, amphipods, seaweed and everything else in the sea in my tank along with mud and NSW.
A few times year I collect amphipods along with the mud and everything else in there and dump it in my tank with no fanfare. I post about this all the time and have since they invented computers.
(But velvet may not live in New York, I don't know)
I guess it is possible that in all that time and from all those sources I never once put in velvet. The odds are staggering but it is possible. Now that my tank is fifty and I consider it a success, If I find a fish with velvet maybe I will put it in my tank to see what happens.
That will end this discussion once and for all. Except of course people will tell me the fish really didn't have velvet, just a little indigestion.
I of course know about the ocean scenario that there is much more water in the sea then a tank and I understand it. It is the reason fish in the sea don't die from ich or velvet.
I can't tell from here if fish can definitely become immune to velvet. I am an electrician and not a fish.
Velvet is just another parasite, more virulent maybe, but a parasite that a fishes immunity should be well able to protect against. No scientific study goes longer than my tank has been up so it is hard to study. But fish in the sea should have in the 50,000,000 years that they have been living with velvet become immune from it by now. I am guessing of course.
As I always say, I find it difficult that I can keep a tank going very healthy for 50 years and I have "never" introduced velvet. From what I see on the 5 or 6 forums I am on, the stuff is pretty prevalent.
I don't have a specific LFS and buy from anyplace where ever I am at. I probably frequent 6 or 7 of them and I also collect from the sea. In the past I have put local flounders, stripped bass, fluke, sea robins, eels and many types of crabs, sponges, amphipods, seaweed and everything else in the sea in my tank along with mud and NSW.
A few times year I collect amphipods along with the mud and everything else in there and dump it in my tank with no fanfare. I post about this all the time and have since they invented computers.
(But velvet may not live in New York, I don't know)
I guess it is possible that in all that time and from all those sources I never once put in velvet. The odds are staggering but it is possible. Now that my tank is fifty and I consider it a success, If I find a fish with velvet maybe I will put it in my tank to see what happens.
That will end this discussion once and for all. Except of course people will tell me the fish really didn't have velvet, just a little indigestion.