Identify ick , flukes or velvet

[Chicago]

ok.. so i have been doing this for 20 plus years and it still gets me.. at 3 pm yesterday.. morish idol is swimming but looks sick. ick or velvet? but eating.. then two hours rigid and dead. put is bucket of fresh after he is dead. he died while i was running out to get some prozipro. came back dead.. anyways back to this.. i can see some pin head white dots in the fresh water now where he lies dead in the buckt.. just lost this am a potters both were in the QT waiting to go into the DT.

ICK or what? photo take about 20 min after death..
thanks

http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab94/jasonreef/mordishidolick3.jpg

 

[Chicago]

 

[Chicago]

 

[ironwill723]

Looks like velvet to me.

 

[Chicago]

about to lose two more in an hour.. wiping out the tank.. funny thing is they are still trying to eat?

 

[Chicago]

now wipping out an anthias and potters.. others are looking bad also. QT tank wipe out.. who would have thought.. velvet i believe is correct.. so much faster than ick. wow. yet clown fish unaffected. as well as wrasse..

 

[HumbleFish]

How long had these been in QT before all this started? Any prophylactic treatment started or just observation? I'm sorry for your losses... but it could be a lot worse had this happened in your DT.

 

[Chicago]

weeks.. but introduced some new mates into the QT tank about a week ago. yes at least it is the QT.. so i have access to the fish easy. can do a fresh dip.. at first thought it was flukes.. but sure now it is pretty much velvet.. copper work?

 

[HumbleFish]

weeks.. but introduced some new mates into the QT tank about a week ago. yes at least it is the QT.. so i have access to the fish easy. can do a fresh dip.. at first thought it was flukes.. but sure now it is pretty much velvet.. copper work?

See my comment here. Copper will work if they survive the f/w dip & formalin bath. Chloroquine phosphate will clear it in 10 days (according to studies from the 70s); so that would be my weapon of choice over copper in this situation.

 

[Chicago]

about to have another doa..