Tang in the wild

[sh2000]

How do tangs get rid of ich/or ick or hlle in the wild ? there's no hypo or copper ? so they just die ? or is there another way they survive and multiply ? and why do they get it in captivitiy? this may sound stupid but I was just wondering... thanks

 

[al mc]

The solution to pollution is dilution. We have small closed systems that we concentrate fish and their diseases together in while the oceans are vast. Some fish do get ICH, some die, others survive. Survival of the fit. Genetically (the Darwin stuff) there is selective breeding going on. Fish that are stronger survive the Ich and go on to produce more fish. Maybe these fish also have the genetic advantage of some stonger resistence to ICH. I am going to stop this now since if I do not I may end up with a ten page post.
There are multiple factors in play here, but ...the solution to any pollution is dilution.

 

[trigger11]

Originally Posted by SH2000
http:///forum/post/2487551
How do tangs get rid of ich/or ick or hlle in the wild ? there's no hypo or copper ? so they just die ? or is there another way they survive and multiply ? and why do they get it in captivitiy? this may sound stupid but I was just wondering... thanks

I would say a lot of them spend time with the cleaner wrasses and cleaner shrimp if they are getting an outbreak of ich. When I first put my orange shoulder tang in my tank he immediately went to the cleaner shrimp. I did not see any spots on him either. In fact I would be interested in knowing how many tang owners have cleaner wrasses and cleaner shrimp. As compared to those that do not. And then what the percentage of ich outbreak would be.
~Trigger

 

[sh2000]

I have a skunk and fire shrimp they clean the hippos and yellows. more often i see them cleaning the hippos.

 

[m0nk]

Diseased fish either die or get eaten in the wild, it does happen. The "cleaners" that we try to get to clean fish in our tanks are more successful at it in the wild, as well.