Can Mardel Saltwater Maracyn kill Marine Velvet (hurt corals?)

[chrisbenavides]

I read in a thread found in the Marine Disease treatment forum, that Mardel Saltwater Maracyn can kill Marine Velvet and to avoid taking the fish out of the tank. This will add stress to the fish. What do you think about that?

Should I buy this med to help cure my baby blue tang of this possible disease that it has. It is very faint on him, but nonetheless, something is there on his body.

I have corals in my tank and some inverts like a starfish, snails, and hermits. I have Xenias, Mushrooms, Torch, Kenya trees, and some others. Will they be negatively affected by this med? If so, I can place the corals in my seahorse tank while I treat the fish in the reef tank. Good idea?

What to do?

Here is the link to the medicine (should I buy tomorrow morning?):
http://www.petco.com/Shop/Product.a...&familyID=5706&

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

NO, NO! Copper is the ONLY cure for Velvet..If in fact that is what he has you must act quickly or he will be dead. Velvet kills quickly..you need to treat all your fish in a qt

 

[chrisbenavides]

Well I am not to sure if it is Velvet. Let me describe.

The baby Blue Tang has a VERY LIGHT VERY VERY LIGHT fuzzyish filmish coating on his body. Not the enitre body though. It can onlybe seen closer to the fish's face (that half). I do see one tiny tiny spot at the back fin of this fish. This fish has had this for about maybe three days.

 

[kevin2000]

Maracyn is an antibiotic and would not be appropriate when treating amylo (marine velvet). Copper is the treatment of choice when fighting amylo and I suspect Cupramine copper is considered the least harsh of the various coppers on the market ... might be important with a tang which may be more sensitive to copper than some fish.

I think that velvet is one of the most difficult diseases to diagnose .. its symptoms are pretty subtle until the disease gets to the advance stage and finding a good pic of a fish with marine velvet is pretty tough.

You should consider setting up a QT. You simply can't use copper in your ST since it will basically contaminate that tank requiring you to toss the live rock, substrate which is far more expensive than setting up a QT.