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Paul my take on this is the reason why this law of physics its not murdering ur fish is stress in the wild every fish prob has some crazy parasite on them but when you go diving youll never see one sugar sprinkled fish, i understand the parasite is concentrated in a home aquarium but then again the fish in the wild arent lockedup in a 6 foot by 2 foot cell everyday, i think if a fish is in a suitable comfy environment with or without parasites stress free they should be fine, my first tank i had about every outbreak of anything imaginable and the only thing i lost after 7 years was a copperband butterflyCb684, thank you for responding. I agree with most of what you said as I have researched this extensively before I wrote what I linked above. As I said, I can only go by my experiences and my fish have been totally immune from everything for at least 35 years. Some of my fish are in their 20s and all of my paired fish are spawning. I can, and do put fish in my tank with obvious ick and velvet infections. I have put copperband butterflies in my tank even though the rest of them just died in the store. I recently added 3 shrimpfish and one died the next day covered in parasites, I just left him in there for the crabs. I collect NSW along with mud and amphipods weekly in the summer and dump all of that in my tank. I have been called lucky but I doubt that is it. The reason I decided to delve into immunity was to try to figure out why my fish just don't get sick. Never. So far no one can answer that for me. I think it is due to the live foods or more exactly, the bacteria with possible parasites I feed every day. I do not know how long immunity lasts and I am sure it varies due to species. But if you search on any forum as you know you will find countless examples of tanks that were lost due to disease even though they were quarantined. As I said, quarantining is one way to go. But getting your fish immune through pathogen exposure and live, bacteria and parasite laden foods seems to keep them safe. I can't explain what else is keeping my fish healthy. I have my tank going continousely since 1971 and it has never crashed for the last 35 years or so through disease or anything else. Do you have a theory on that? I am at a loss.
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