Velvet

[hawkey992]

About a month ago, my tank suffered an outbreak of velvet. Within a week, all but one of my fish had perished. I gave the surviving Pink Spotted Shrimp Goby a freshwater bath and temporarily placed it in another tank. I then ran the infected tank on pure freshwater for 24 hours which I expected would kill any trophonts or tomonts in the tank. Clearly, I was wrong seeing as now that the tank as been back up for a few weeks, even though the goby is resiliant as ever, the blenny I added two weeks ago (I quarantined it for 2 weeks prior to that) is showing respiratory stress, glancing, and loss of appetite. My plan is to remove the blenny, give a freshwater dip and place it back in to quarantine where I will treat it with Ich X until he improves or perishes. I am optimistic about this approach but I still don't know what to do about getting the velvet out of the display tank. Any advice on the matter would be much much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[LargeAngels]

Treat with a copper like Cupramine in QT and leave main tank fishless for 4-6 weeks. Only proven method to kill velvet is copper. Anything else is just snake oil.

 

[lkc]

I read in Janis Wilkerson's CLOWNFISHES

 

[hawkey992]

will copper kill the encysted tomonts as well as the active stages?

 

[LargeAngels]

Velvet cycle is similar to the ich cycle. Copper kills in the "Free Swimming" stage, thus the reguirement to treat for 4-6 weeks.

Some good reading: http://atj.net.au/marineaquaria/amyloodinium.html