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[Myka]

Originally Posted by travisc

@ Myka adding a few new pics and updates. Tank was in limbo for 2 months after an outbreak of ich crashed my tank
Was a very disheartening lesson to learn. But hopefully I have learned from my mistakes and an more knowledgeable now (and a little more patient ). Thanks to my buddy Jim and unfortunately him having to shut down his tank I got to adopt all his fish and got a few others.
I have gotten better lighting thanks to @ lastlight and added 4 radium 250w. Also adding a calcium reactor and UV sterilizer right away!

Yes, patience is a virtue when it comes to saltwater tanks that's for sure. It's certainly not recommended to add as many fish as you did in less than a month. Poor fish. With a tank the size of yours you really should consider a quarantine system. It only takes one fish to wipe out the entire tank (as you've already learned), and even if you take all the time in the world that last fish could easily be the Marine Velvet vector you really don't want. You think Ich is bad? Try Marine Velvet. Many a tank on Canreef has been lost due to MV.

That's great you're pimpin Radions! Nice upgrade!

[travisc]

I do have a quarantine tank now.... but with a tank my size it would be next to impossible to get an infected fish out of the tank. I don't know if I had ick or marine velvet. Everyone says it was ick but I'm not sure. All I know is that within a couple days all my fish were dead. I'm adding a UV staralizer and hopefully that will help with any parasite.

[travisc]

Ick or velvet?[IMG][/IMG]

[Myka]

I vote for Marine Velvet since the fish were wiped out so quick - the easiest way to tell is while the fish is still alive to give them a FW dip and see if the spots come off or not. Ich won't come off in a FW dip.

Here's a good comparative source. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2119086

[Skimmer Juice]

sucks to loose all those fish , its to bad . Well at least you have a qt now

[davej]

One thing I remember reading was, if you can count the spots (within reason) then its ick, if the spots are too numerous to count then velvet.

[kien]

Ouch. That's painful to see. Sorry for your losses :-(

I've had both ick and I think velvet. The velvet wiped out my tank swiftly and looked like what you pictured. My tangs frequently get ick (even to this day) whenever there are stressors in/to the tank and they always seem to fight off the ick.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Unfortunately, with Marine Velvet, if you don't start a copper treatment, it's usually fatal. During a breakout in Metro Vancouver a few years ago, only one buddy who treated his tank with copper saved his fish. Massive losses in other affected tanks. Sorry to hear this has happened to you. It is heart breaking to lose all your fish.

Anthony

[travisc]

Thanks everyone for their concern. I'm not an expert but I have now seen a few fish with ick and it sort of looks like pimples under the skin with white heads (best as I can describe it. Coming from a pimpley teenager myself). What my fish had looked as if the swam through a big cobweb. Either the case it was a lesson learned not only the money but to kill such beautiful creatures. But fresh start, and the tank is more mature. Will all new additions going in a quarantine tank now.

[travisc]

Perfect way to describe it Davej