Is there anything you could do that would result In loosing fish?Mark maybe I should have said "my" fish are, or seem to be immune at least for 35 or so years. I can't say they are almost immune because that would suggest that there was one or more times when I lost a fish in that time from a parasite. But I didn't so I "assume" they are "totally" immune from at least any parasites I added. I don't know if the parasites from New York water can infect tropical fish. I don't see why not because our water here now is about 70 degrees. I also can't swear that all the fish I added in 35 years from dozens of stores and different people's tanks and the fish I collected were infected but it seems to be a good assumption. The disease threads are full of people adding one coral or clam and immediately their fish are infected.
I am almost 70 years old. If I keep the tank running for another 15 years (probably in a nursing home) and if nothing gets infected would that be enough time to say my fish are immune or would the tank have to run 100 years?
Most of the people here are Noobs to me and they have been trying to discredit my methods for decades. But even if my methods are ridiculous and can't possibly work, why do they. Where are the methods from people who quarantine and have fish that are only dying from old age while spawning that entire time. This hobby is 47 years old in the US, where are the old tanks? What happened to those fish? I know because I have been here all that time and almost none of the people from the beginning of the hobby or even 20 years ago got out of the hobby, Or died.
I didn't wake up one day and come up with this. I have researched this for 50 years and learned by doing. Most people learn on the internet which is by following. Following is great but if you never leave the box and try something else you just won't know and you will use the same methods we used in the 70s which didn't work then and don
t work now. I have been mis quoted so many times in this thread that my head is spinning and it is giving me a headache. Can you count how many times I said "all bacteria is not the same, Only disease causing bacteria will get fish immune" Then 5 people will say "there is bacteria in everything. That has nothing to do with what I said. Also quarantine kills fish. No, it doesn't right away, but it does as soon as a pathogen is introduced. Quarantine is keeping fish away from pathogens. Not observing them in a tank. People know what I meant. I also didn't say anything about copper killing an immune system. If I did, I was wrong as I just don't know. I am very busy building much of my new house and I come on here for a few minutes to "relax" but I can't choose every word perfectly especially when people know what I mean very well.
I just moved my tank here. Talk about stress with me and the fish. They were in a box in filthy muddy water, I threw them into NSW with no lights, heater, nothing. I lost nothing. If anyone wants to come here and look, be my guest. Bring a sick fish if you like.