WHIPEOUT !!! Clocks Ticking !!!

[DolbyCat]

I think its marine velvet, and I think its over for most of my fish
(6 so far). Help!
Atlantic tang sailfin tang, and maculosis angel havebeen in a hospital tank for a week. Foxface, engineer goby, a couple of days. Im useing coppersafe and rid-ich. They seem to be eating ,ok. I have 3 damsels a bi-color blenny, and a scooter blenny in my main tank, should I try to take them out?
Looking for a uv sterilizer, is this the right direction?

 

[atty]

A UV sterilizer won’t help because the velvet is already on this fish. My bet is to turn up the temp, 28 degrees (increases life cycle) and remove all corals, snails, star fish ect into a quarantine tank.
Good luck

 

[DolbyCat]

my main tank I decided to leave my inverts and live rock in, while I'm in the process of moving all my fish into quarintine. Should I still turn up the temp, that seems like alot?

 

[TerryB]

No, do not turn the temperature up. Thermal stress will cause the blood pH to change and it will suppress immune function. Raising the temperature will not cure velvet and it is not to your advantage to speed up the life cycle anyway.

Please describe all symptoms in detail. Why do you think it is velvet and not something else like ich? If you are going to use copper in the Qtank then get some Cupramine and test the copper level twice a day. It is safer and more effective than the other stuff (which IMO may be about the poorest choice in a copper).

Terry B

 

[DolbyCat]

I think its velvet and not ich because it started w/ smaller dots and then progressed to like a slime. You could see it better on my black clown. (R.I.P.) They also seem to have been breathing hard.
I just purchased a Coralife 6x uv sterilizer for my main tank.