In a conversation today with Humblefish, we talked about stress, immunity and ich predators in a reef tank.
I asked if uncured diver collected live rock would have ich predators.
“I would love to ID specific “predators” of fish pathogens. To date, I have only found this one study which documented how the nauplii of brine shrimp (Artemia salina) consume Velvet dinospores (free swimmers): https://humble.fish/community/index...loodinium-dinospores-by-artemia-1995-pdf.119/
It makes sense to me that all fish pathogens (all life stages) must have something which preys upon them. And stocking an aquarium with such could be the holy grail to controlling diseases in a captive environment. But which animal, plant, fungi, protist and/or monera are these?? For example, a famous marine scientist (Dr. Angelo Colorni) is sure that certain bacteria “gnaw” on Cryptocaryon tomonts and damage them. But when we talked more about it, he never could identify which species of bacteria would do this. ”
Who could document the numerous pathogens (bacteria, viruses, parasites) and “predators of pathogens“?
I asked if uncured diver collected live rock would have ich predators.
“I would love to ID specific “predators” of fish pathogens. To date, I have only found this one study which documented how the nauplii of brine shrimp (Artemia salina) consume Velvet dinospores (free swimmers): https://humble.fish/community/index...loodinium-dinospores-by-artemia-1995-pdf.119/
It makes sense to me that all fish pathogens (all life stages) must have something which preys upon them. And stocking an aquarium with such could be the holy grail to controlling diseases in a captive environment. But which animal, plant, fungi, protist and/or monera are these?? For example, a famous marine scientist (Dr. Angelo Colorni) is sure that certain bacteria “gnaw” on Cryptocaryon tomonts and damage them. But when we talked more about it, he never could identify which species of bacteria would do this. ”
Who could document the numerous pathogens (bacteria, viruses, parasites) and “predators of pathogens“?