TBS Live Rock and Sand Disease Risk

[ChrisfromBrick]

As far as critters go (and I apologize for getting slightly off topic here) it may be prudent to isolate your TBS rock in the sump and observe it for unwanted pests. Then later on add to display.

 

[Subsea]

@Lasse said this earlier this morning on a post about
fish slime & natural immunity:

“This has been known for a long time but we seldom think about it in this way. This is one of the reasons - IMO - why fish in newly started aquariums have a tendency to be susceptible to disease compared to older, more mature aquariums. In new aquarium the water is more "aggressive" against the mucus coat because the lack of biological molecules and colloidal organic particles in the water - IMO. A disease to me is the situation where a pathogenic microorganism is not controlled either internally or externally. The presence of a pathogen is a prerequisite for a disease, but its presence does not automatically mean that a disease will break out.”

 

[IceNein]

what I find so fascinating is how the ocean is potentiated for it but they express it so much less there/am assuming

they must hate coming to us for holding?

In my inexpert opinion it's because of the closed nature of our systems. Bacteria, flukes, viruses in nature infect a fish and then are released into the vast and open ocean, and maybe one out of a million bacteria/fluke/virus makes it back into another fish. In aquaria it's released into water that is recycled and the fish then breathes again. So instead of getting a virus and then the virus completes it's life cycle and goes off to infect something else, it just circles back around and reinfects the fish until it's immune system can ward it off.