I've been thinking about the whole parasite/disease thing lately, it seems to me that no matter how vigilant with the quarantining you are, you cannot avoid it - if you use live rock, I think you would inevitably end up with some of these nuissance bugs in your tank. I think the quarantine tank does help, both at the time of purchase of the fish, and when it has an outbreak later, but I wonder if you can really ever rid your tank of problem parasites. I suppose the answer is simply maintaning a stress-free environment where your fish have the best chance of having a strong immune system.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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