I need assistance please. Marine velvet.

Abe · #1 02-05-2013, 02:13 AM

I have few fish in a quarantine tank. I found the last one I bought wich was on the weekend today with redish spots on it body and swiming on top of tank. I believe its marine velvet. As soon as I seen it I took it out and place it in a tot with powerhead and heater for now as I was on my way out to work. I am planing to start using copper on it and add a small filter and hopefully it will recover. My question is, what about the other fish I had with it. Are they safe?or should I use copper as well. The only thing is I have few frags in there as well as some CUC. Let me know what should I do. Thanks.

George · #2 02-05-2013, 04:40 AM

I would treat all fish which were in the same tank as your sick fish. I would also separate the inverts (frags, CUC, etc) from the fish and put them into a different tank (anywhere but the DT).
Also if you are sure it's marine velvet, a fresh water bath before your treatment may reduce number of parasites on a fish and provide temporarily relieve to the fish, depends on the strain of marine velvet.
Good luck! It could be worse (if you put the sick fish in the DT).

Abe · #3 02-05-2013, 05:22 AM

pk I got home now and my fish that I moved is dead

here is a picture of the area where the spots where. let me know if this marine velvet or not please. thanks.

howdy20012002 · #4 02-05-2013, 05:37 AM

hard to tell
CBB are not at all hardy and many things could have caused its demise

fishoholic · #5 02-05-2013, 01:49 PM

CBB's are notorious for dying quickly many of them will get the reddish spots on them when they die from internal issues, so it might not be velvet. Could be something else, maybe cyanid caught.

Aquattro · #6 02-05-2013, 02:23 PM

None of my fish looked like that after dying from MV. I'd guess something else.

annabanana · #7 02-05-2013, 09:22 PM

eeek good luck my friend got this and lot all his fish

Abe · #8 02-08-2013, 02:15 AM

well after couple of days since I lost my CCB, I just saw my flame angel breathing heavy and twitched a bit (the twitch was the same sign as the CBB). so I stopped the filter and the skimmer that I have in the quarantine tank and I dosed cupramine from seachem. my amonia is 0 but my nitrite is 0.5 but can't trust the tester as it is at the expiry date. should I do a water change now or wait until tomorrow because of the dose. also I have a canister filter on my quarantine tank that have filter floss and some live rocks and carbon, should I remove the rocks and carbon and just let it run with the floss? any help will be appreciated. thanks.

Jason McK · #9 02-08-2013, 02:21 AM

sorry just trying to get a better picture.
your Q tank has a skimmer canister filter, Live rock and a clean up crew?
Typically these items are not in a clean up crew. Do you also have Sand in the Q tank?

Abe · #10 02-08-2013, 02:26 AM

lol no, but I had it running as a tank for new additions to my new 230g. that's why. but now that I dosed everything is off except powerheads. and just an update, the flame angel seem to breath better now and seem better, I am just going to wait until tomorrow and see.