Determining ich from velvet

[CodeBlueMedic]

Howdy All,

I'm fairly new to this whole game but I'm doing my best to keep this crap out of my DT's. I picked up a foxface yesterday from my LFS and today he is showing some white dots along his side. I'm assuming it is ich, but from what I am reading, it's rather difficult to distinguish between velvet and ich. Luckily he is in QT now and I can do one of two things...I was planning on doing the TTM, but does that treat velvet? I could start dosing with cupramine. What about paraguard or prazipro, do they do anything against velvet? I was thinking about TTM and then treating with one of the above.

I just want to be sure..I'm far more concerned about velvet than I am ich.

 

[snorvich]

TTM does not treat any parasite except ich. However, if a fish comes from a source that runs a low level of copper, it may mask velvet, ich, or both. That is why there is an observation period after TTM.

 

[CodeBlueMedic]

TTM does not treat any parasite except ich. However, if a fish comes from a source that runs a low level of copper, it may mask velvet, ich, or both. That is why there is an observation period after TTM.

Any experience with paraguard and velvet or should I just go with copper?

 

[wooden_reefer]

Howdy All,

I'm fairly new to this whole game but I'm doing my best to keep this crap out of my DT's. I picked up a foxface yesterday from my LFS and today he is showing some white dots along his side. I'm assuming it is ich, but from what I am reading, it's rather difficult to distinguish between velvet and ich. Luckily he is in QT now and I can do one of two things...I was planning on doing the TTM, but does that treat velvet? I could start dosing with cupramine. What about paraguard or prazipro, do they do anything against velvet? I was thinking about TTM and then treating with one of the above.

I just want to be sure..I'm far more concerned about velvet than I am ich.

Velvet is powdery; ich is distinct dots, in general. For some reason, ich is much more common, IME.

Eradication of ich and velvet is in the rigor of procedure, not observation. Infestation can be light for a couple of months.

I often make full use of the QT period to erdicate ich, without much observation.