Can an unaffected fish carry brooklynella?

[clownishgambino]

Hey everyone, so my new tank is finished cycling and ready for fish and a friend of mine gave me a healthy leopard wrasse he no longer wanted and so I put him into the new tank. Hes been doing great and is extremely healthy, taking frozen food immediately while cruising around the tank. BUT, his system had a brooklynella outbreak and killed over 10 clownfish a couple of weeks ago (he tried adding another clownfish a week or so after all of the original clowns had died, but that new one caught it as well), all his other fish were perfectly fine, including the leopard along with a purple tang and accessor. I was planning on moving the rest of my fish over from my old tank to this new one with the wrasse in it, but wanted to know if this wrasse could be carrying the brook that killed my buddy's clowns, and if it is safe or not to add my clowns to the tank. If its not safe yet, what would be the best way to go about this? I figure it's too late just to take the wrasse out if he was already carrying it and some shed off into my tank. Thanks in advance.

 

[snorvich]

Well, brook kills fish other than clownfish, so his other fish should be affected if the parasite is still in his tank. It is very difficult to diagnose third hand.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

If the wrasse is the only fish in the tank I would wait 3-4 weeks to see if he develops any symptoms. I wouldn't introduce any fish to the wrasse until you know it's all clear.