Let's talk copper

To expand on what Mishri said, there is a "Bath Powder" in the line of products. I have personally used it and seen great results in alleviating the ich symptoms, fish are doing great, its been 2 weeks since i kicked the lights back up and did some water changes (to rid CP), so a little too early perhaps to say it totally fixed the problem, but ill be feeling good about if no symptoms come up over the next month or so.

FWIW, I have heard fish tolerate the food based if soaked in garlic. Dont quote me on that, if you can get the fish moved to a HT/QT i would 10000% recommend the bath over the food.

Good luck moving forward, monitor ammonia! especially with CP the mass algae die off can spike ammonia. Also, I saw you mention wrasse about being sensitive, I have a blue flasher and a melanrus that went through CP and they both looking great, they are the two biggest eaters.

While treating ICK, I lost a sailfin the first day of cupramine at 1/3 the recommended dose. Just sensitive/bad luck i guess. Then a midas blenny and mckoskers jumped (my fault). Besides these guys, all my fish, firefish, royal gramma, yellow kole eye tang, blue hippo tang, 2x occ. clowns and a melanrus wrasse are looking great. I backed out of copper soon after most fish lost appitite and switched to CP, since then have added two doses of prazi.
 
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Mishri said:
There is a powder version that isn't food. don't get the food many people have trouble getting the fish to eat it more than once.

edit: This is it: http://www.amazon.com/New-Life-Spectrum-Shield-Powder/dp/B00MNQWACU

I've had good luck with it... copper didn't work out too well for me. I tried using it on my freshwater fish with ick and it didn't work. For saltwater fish it worked well.
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What dosage did you use it at? (I know we cant directly test for it but about what dosage would you expect based on the instructions i.e. 1 scoop per 20 gallon for .08 strength (Ithink)) and for how long?
 
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Zer0. said:
What dosage did you use it at? (I know we cant directly test for it but about what dosage would you expect based on the instructions i.e. 1 scoop per 20 gallon for .08 strength (Ithink)) and for how long?
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For treating velvet, 14 days.
 
Can someone confirm this is velvet. First transfer of TTM and I noticed one of the two benggais are not eating and has that haziness along with spots. I did a 3 min fw bath and there were "white floaties" in the water as depicted. Formalin is due in tomorrow (tons of shipping delays from a big company)

The pic is tough to see, but there were noticeable haziness and white spots whereas the other fish are fairing quite well.



 
ThRoewer said:
I wouldn't do extended low dose formalin. First it is toxic and a carcinogen and while short baths may be a necessity to safe their lives, I wouldn't want expose my fish to it for a prolonged time. The other reason against it is that it depletes fast in saltwater but you can't easily test for it. So you need to redoes blind or remove whatever is left from the previous dose with a carbon filter before doing the next dose.

If you want to dose the TTM tanks I would rather use CP. It shouldn't deplete over 3 days and is highly effective against the parasites that may survive the formalin dips.
The only downside of CP is that some fish can't tolerate it (Pipefish, seahorses and their relatives and some wrasses).
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If doing ttm, would you re dose the 10mg/l amount each ttm to the new water?
 
update: The first are on their third ttm, with one dose of prazi administered on the 2nd transfer due to stringy white poo. I administered cp at 10 mg/l yesterday and the fish had no adverse reaction. In fact, they seemed to have an increased appetite! The pink skunk used to just mouth her food and would spit it out shortly after. She now chases those mysis like its candy. I will update as I get closer to the 14 day mark of ttm/cp dosing.
 
kenith said:
Can someone confirm this is velvet. First transfer of TTM and I noticed one of the two benggais are not eating and has that haziness along with spots. I did a 3 min fw bath and there were "white floaties" in the water as depicted. Formalin is due in tomorrow (tons of shipping delays from a big company)

The pic is tough to see, but there were noticeable haziness and white spots whereas the other fish are fairing quite well.



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Can't tell from the pic, but what you're describing sounds more like flukes than velvet to me.
 
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