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I have had established hardy tangs live with velvet for months before I properly ID’d it.
I kept velvet in my wrasse tank with a blonde Naso Tang for about one year. Not ethical, and I did lose some fish, especially new ones. Wrasse have very thick slime coats and sleep in mucous cocoons and often in the sand so they’re far less impacted. The hippo and naso that lived with it for a while just become slowly resistant but eventually the hippo died and soon after I saw velvet symptoms and properly identified the disease. The blonde naso would have lived for years I’m convinced, however.
That said, I lost several before I found one hardy enough to make it through. Not ethical, IMO.
So yes healthy resident fish can be resistant for some time. New additions will quickly succumb due to the weakened immune state, stress, and a lack of resistance built.
I agree that is velvet almost certainly.
I kept velvet in my wrasse tank with a blonde Naso Tang for about one year. Not ethical, and I did lose some fish, especially new ones. Wrasse have very thick slime coats and sleep in mucous cocoons and often in the sand so they’re far less impacted. The hippo and naso that lived with it for a while just become slowly resistant but eventually the hippo died and soon after I saw velvet symptoms and properly identified the disease. The blonde naso would have lived for years I’m convinced, however.
That said, I lost several before I found one hardy enough to make it through. Not ethical, IMO.
So yes healthy resident fish can be resistant for some time. New additions will quickly succumb due to the weakened immune state, stress, and a lack of resistance built.
I agree that is velvet almost certainly.