I have a possible problem and wanted to run it by people.
Basically, about 6 months ago, I had an outbreak of what I thought was ich throughout my tank. I didn't quarantine and all the fish broke out after adding a fish from an established tank. Unfortunately, I was also set to leave town for 4 days at the time this happened and figured I'd come home to a tank full of dead fish.
Fortunately, when I returned, everyone was doing fine and none of the fish have shown any signs of any infection in the 6 months since, with a transfer to a new tank in the interim.
My concern is that after this outbreak, my fridmani never really achieved it's normal appearance but had some patchy areas of something that looked like velvet. However, he's never shown any other signs (brushing against rocks, gasping for air) and I would have thought that an outbreak of velvet would have wiped out the tank completely, especially with no treatment.
My conundrum is that I want to add some more fish now as I'm going to a bigger tank. I would rather not subject healthy fish to a bunch of meds but I also don't want to risk wiping out any fish I add in the future (assuming that this was somehow velvet but subclinical).
I know some advocate treating prophetically with cupramine and maracyn 1 and 2 but that's obviously a fairly caustic combo. I can possibly move all of my fish into a 90 gallon qtank and treat the whole tank while leaving the new display fallow for 2 months.
Any ideas? Also, can velvet be transmitted from corals in someone else's tank ?
Basically, about 6 months ago, I had an outbreak of what I thought was ich throughout my tank. I didn't quarantine and all the fish broke out after adding a fish from an established tank. Unfortunately, I was also set to leave town for 4 days at the time this happened and figured I'd come home to a tank full of dead fish.
Fortunately, when I returned, everyone was doing fine and none of the fish have shown any signs of any infection in the 6 months since, with a transfer to a new tank in the interim.
My concern is that after this outbreak, my fridmani never really achieved it's normal appearance but had some patchy areas of something that looked like velvet. However, he's never shown any other signs (brushing against rocks, gasping for air) and I would have thought that an outbreak of velvet would have wiped out the tank completely, especially with no treatment.
My conundrum is that I want to add some more fish now as I'm going to a bigger tank. I would rather not subject healthy fish to a bunch of meds but I also don't want to risk wiping out any fish I add in the future (assuming that this was somehow velvet but subclinical).
I know some advocate treating prophetically with cupramine and maracyn 1 and 2 but that's obviously a fairly caustic combo. I can possibly move all of my fish into a 90 gallon qtank and treat the whole tank while leaving the new display fallow for 2 months.
Any ideas? Also, can velvet be transmitted from corals in someone else's tank ?
