How long to go Fallow?

[ThRoewer]

Unfortunately there are smaller ones than those in the pictures above. The ones my ventralis had looked like ich with the naked eye or just a magnifying glass. Only under the microscope with the fish in freshwater you would see them move around and scramble for cover.

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[microlady]

Great. lol

Symptoms of these things? Are they deadly? What do you do if they are in the display? Will cleaner shrimp help? I've noticed the dwarf angels like to be cleaned.

 

[ThRoewer]

My ventralis looked OK one day, behaved a bit funny the next day and were dead the morning after. So yes, they can kill quite quickly when the infection reaches a certain level.

Symptoms where like ich, which is why I made the mistake to wait with treatment too long.

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[heuerfan]

6 weeks

I tried 3 weeks and that definitely did not work for Marine Velvet. This is my first time dealing with MV, and it is terrible.

Unlike ich I hope 6 weeks is long enough but i'm going to wait till the new year. Nothing worst than seeing all your fish perish before your eyes and nothing you can do about it.

If only we could find a simple cure for all these parasites, all the fish we could save......

 

[ali1]

Studies going back to 1992... fast forward 20+ years and you'd think we would have more conclusive data.

Aside from natural reefs going downhill, i think the majority of beginners become discouraged to entertain this hobby after their first ich outbreak. When they find out, they need more equipment, tanks, practically a lab environment just to cure the $27 fish, they just take the loss and find another hobby.

 

[Recci]

I know this is an old thread but the quarantine periods mentioned in the thread are completely useless without constantly treating with copper or chloroquine phosphate the entire time they are in the QT tank. This fact seems to have been lost on the people discussing qt period lengths. Putting infected fish in qt and not treating them will just mean they remain infected. So when you have kileld it off in the display tank by leaving it fallow you are just reintroducing it back in removing the fish from qt.

 

[ali1]

OP already mentioned he was doing TTM for the fish.