From what I remember the velvet can be floating in the water (like ich) so I would use new SW.
What I did (major PITA but it worked) was set up a 110g QT tank with new SW and I did a 50% water change every other day so ammonia would not build up, and treated with cuppermine (sp?) for 2 weeks. During the copper treatment I bought 80 pounds of cured LR from a tank shut down and set up a 90ish gallon rubbermaid. Transferred all my fish (only 8 left out of 34) after treatment into the rubbermaid (did weekly w/c) and kept them there for 6 weeks. They were out of the display for 8 weeks total then I slowly added them back into the display after that. Ran only heaters and powerheads in QT and the rubbermaid.
I used PVC pipes for hiding spots in the QT and followed the instructions on the cuppermine bottle for treatment
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Last edited by fishoholic; 01-29-2012 at 06:36 PM.
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