Heartbroken...marine velvet outbreak!

[Newreef2]

I'm learning a hard lesson! I just bought some coppersafe and I am getting ready to set up a hospital tank and remove my fish from the dt. I have watched several die and now some suffering so I'm going to try to save them. I have never used copper before and would love some advice. I have a few fish that are really bad off and a couple that are unaffected so far. I'm assuming I get them all out and treat everybody? Any advice will help.
Thanks,
Barbara

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

maybe Tom (tmz) will have some useful advice for treatment. Or try the fish disease forum here on RC. Marine velvet is brutal. Knock on wood I haven't had an outbreak of any fish disease in years. Treatments have always been (by and large) mostly ineffective for me. I've never had success curing velvet.

This is why I always purchase fish from trusted local sources and make sure to QT. Very painful lesson.

The most humane way to euthanize is the freezer. Good luck.

 

[EllieSuz]

Velvet wouldn't happen spontaneously. Did you add a new fish to the Display? I hope you can cure your remaining fish, but let's also see if we can come up with an explanation of how they got so sick.

 

[FSU3NOLES28]

So sorry to hear.. sad to say I've been there.

Here is a thread i posted in April:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2154824&highlight=fsu3noles28

Best of luck.

 

[E_rock]

I had a bad run of ich a few months back. And tmz helped out a lot. We need some kind of a batman signal for him.

 

[EllieSuz]

Send him a private message that says, "Hey Tom! Wake up...you're needed here!"

 

[Foody]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-07/sp/feature/index.php

Interesting read...