Marine Velvet, I can't believe its happening to me.

[Skimmerking]

Well I was hoping it wasnt ick, However since last week in my RSM 250 i have lost
10 yr old kole tang
pair of manderins
Labouti wrasse the male
Algae blenny
Midas Blenny
Male Bangii Cardinal.

my 3 Clowns all have it along with the female labouti wrasse

My mystery wrasse, prawn goby,leopard wrasse, dart fish, yellow wrasse does not have any signs. i have been hitting the tank with ick the temp is 78 -79. I know that my temp, i had a couple days where it was at79- 82 in a swing. I'm really hoping that it isnt from that. other then that I have been coming home to dead fish or wasking up in the morning to a fish that has recently passed away.

I'm really not liking seeing my babies that i had in my 240 go from that and now its like I have been killing them. My 10 yr old Kole who i still can't bare to talk about and my Algae Blenny who would jump into my hand and eat too. When ever the handwas in the tank the blenny would nibble on my hand and fingers looking for food. I'm really starting to think sell off all the corals and call it a day and take a break from it all. these smallertanks and having htem upstairs is killing me without a chiller and a OZONE. I guess t hat i have been spoiled all these years with the larger tanks.

Sorry just needed to vent here at work. My family is also very sad where all the fish have been dyiong. Each one has there own fish who they feed and play with.


NOT A GOOD DAY OR WEEK>

[FishyFishy!]

I hear you man. I didn't quarantine a powder blue and there was an outbreak of ick in my tank, and since all of the lost fish have faded a lot before they died i'm wondering if it something worse. I'm monitoring my tank like crazy now.

So far I have lost:

Powder Blue Tang
Pajama Cardinal
Flame Angel
Emperor Angel
Disbar Anthias

And I just noticed that my huge old clown female is fading and has small spots.

[MarkoD]

That really sucks. Too bad skimmers don't pull out parasites

[Coralgurl]

Very sorry for your losses!! Is there anything you can do to stop it or does it just have to run its course?

Hang in there!

[Snappy]

I feel your pain. I introduced two fish into my system last Boxing day and had my fish get sick with velvet within 2-3 days. It starts off looking similar to ich but then coats them in a whiteish blanket of velvet. I lost over 50 fish including some of my long time faves. It wiped out a lot of fish but there are at least a dozen that I thought were gonners that have recovered completely. That said, I still have another 3 or 4 fish that were really sick and recovered but still have some cloudiness in their eyes that I am possitive is just scarring from when they were sick because I have added other fish since then with no ill effects. I guess they now just have cateracs. Anyway it took about 3 months to run it's course. If they will continue to eat the stronger ones may have a fighting chance to beat it. I am very sorry for your losses and hope it doesn't continue.

[FishyFishy!]

Yeah one of my damsels has the cloudy eyes, and my big clown is starting to get cloudy eyes.... :-(