Originally Posted by
Hefner413
http:///forum/post/2705154
I agree Fishygurl. the disease / parasite idea is what I worry about, I guess. I just wonder... do not all the things we get for LFS's and online come from polluted / parasite filled oceans anyway?
No, IMHO. As far as Ich, Velvet, and Flukes are concerned it's my opinion that fish carrying these are 'infected' some where along the line of distributor, wholesaler, LFS. Marine Ich is almost non-extinst in the wild. The reason? Ich can't survive over that much territory. However, when you stuff 30 tangs in roughly 300gals like at the wholeseller, it spreads like wild fire.
However, things likes internal paratises among certain species of fish, and parasitic isopods on large fish, are somewhat common.