Thought my fish had ich, turns out I believe it marine velvet. Fish covered in white specs, looks to be eating the flesh away as well. Going to rip apart my 135g reef tank tomorrow and get all the fish out for a copper treatment and needed to know if a snowflake eel can handle it? Iv done a ton of research and everything is contradicting. Iv lost a lionfish, blue tang, yellow tang, flame angel, and 3 cardinals from being out of town and unable to deal with it this week but am back now and want to start treatment in the morning.
Need advice for marine velvet!!!!!!
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The symptoms you describe don't really match velvet.
Velvet causes more of a rusty to golden dusting on the fish's skin. But usually the gills are the primary target of Amyloodinium. Behavioral symptoms are heavy breathing and standing in high flow areas or near the surface. In the final stage the fish stop eating and become reclusive.
In general velvet causes rapid deaths.
Skin flukes can appear like white specs and they also may cause visible skin damage.
Much of the behavioral symptoms match velvet, but the appearance of the skin and fins rather matches Cryptocaryon.
Flesh eating away would fit bacterial infections, Uronema, even Brooklynella to some degree.
If you are truly dealing with Amyloodinium, then Chloroquine Phosphate (Ick-Shield Powder) would be the best treatment option.
BTW, pictures or videos of the sick fish would help with the diagnosis.
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Velvet causes more of a rusty to golden dusting on the fish's skin. But usually the gills are the primary target of Amyloodinium. Behavioral symptoms are heavy breathing and standing in high flow areas or near the surface. In the final stage the fish stop eating and become reclusive.
In general velvet causes rapid deaths.
Skin flukes can appear like white specs and they also may cause visible skin damage.
Much of the behavioral symptoms match velvet, but the appearance of the skin and fins rather matches Cryptocaryon.
Flesh eating away would fit bacterial infections, Uronema, even Brooklynella to some degree.
If you are truly dealing with Amyloodinium, then Chloroquine Phosphate (Ick-Shield Powder) would be the best treatment option.
BTW, pictures or videos of the sick fish would help with the diagnosis.
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Based on how fast the fishes are dropping dead i would guess its velvet. Did you add any new fishes in the last few weeks. I recently got some fishes from live aquaria. None of them made it through the 2 weeks and most of my fishes look like they have velvet. I already lost my favorite fish, a sunburst anthia i had for 6 months. He died within 24 hours of showing symptoms. I am bracing myself for a wipeout. Reading on the forums looks like a lot of people are getting marine velvet recently so its most likely one of the major wholesalers has a bad infestation that is spreading like wildfire.
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The fish had shown signs for a couple weeks before dying, unfortunantly I was out of town and could do nothing about it. I ripped my tank apart and got the remaining fish out and have started the tank transfer method. As of yesterday not one fish has any spots on them and all are eating like pigs
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