Amyloodinium Ocellatum ?

[reefrubble]

If I have Amyloodinium Ocellatum in my tank , and I still have fish that are still eating well , active , and not dieing will the parasite eventually die off completely ?

 

[SDguy]

I've not seen velvet in a tank and have the fish live. Maybe one or two at best. Why do you think it's velvet?

 

[reefrubble]

Because I had several fish die very quickly after introducing two new fish , and the remaining fish have the signs , and systems . If I look very closely at my Powder Brown Tang I can see the very fine specs all over his body , plus he sits in front of the return flow from time to time . I can still see the very fine specs on his body , but it looks like he is getting better . The fish that died were eating very well , but then stopped eating and died shortly after . Their bodies were covered with a white film that looked like power sugar .

 

[MrTuskfish]

Velvet is very deadly and contagious; it can wipe out a tank in days. Its just a matter of the parasite's life cycle timing; Treating all fish with copper in a QT while the DT stays fishless for 6+ weeks is the only possible cure I know of. Velvet is a major reason to use a QT on all new fish; velvet scares me much more than ich.

 

[SDguy]

Still might be ich.

Well, either way, the answer is going to be no. If you have fish survive, and become sort of resistant to whatever it is you have in the tank, they very well can still carry it, so any new addition would still be at risk.

 

[reefrubble]

Velvet is very deadly and contagious; it can wipe out a tank in days. Its just a matter of the parasite's life cycle timing; Treating all fish with copper in a QT while the DT stays fishless for 6+ weeks is the only possible cure I know of. Velvet is a major reason to use a QT on all new fish; velvet scares me much more than ich.

Thank you for your input , and help .

 

[reefrubble]

Still might be ich.

Well, either way, the answer is going to be no. If you have fish survive, and become sort of resistant to whatever it is you have in the tank, they very well can still carry it, so any new addition would still be at risk.

I know this isn't Ich . My Tang , and a copper-band I had both had Ich , and this is different . The Ich was a lot easier to see , and it didn't kill any where near as quick as this stuff .

I was thinking the same thing , but I was hoping I was wrong ? I have my QT set up with a Bio-wheel filter , and I'm going to add a sponge filter as well . I will start adding my fish as soon as the tank cycles . The QT is a 55 gal. , and the Bio-wheel filter is an emperor 400 . I will be using Copper Safe , for the treatment . I am going to remove all my corals , dip , and quarantine them . The rock will get the bleach treatment , as well as my entire system . All my live stock will stay in quarantine a minimum of 2 months . While everything is in quarantine , I will set the tank back up with new sand , and the sterilized rock . This will give the tank plenty of time to cycle . I think by doing this the system should be marine velvet free .

 

[MrTuskfish]

Assuming this is velvet; you don't have any time to cycle a QT. Fish could easily be dead tomorrow. You'll have to do WCs to keep ammonia down and can't use ammonia-neutralizers with most copper.