One dead fish a day HELP

[bulletsworld]

hey Tarolisol,

what copper did you use for your boxfish? I just lost mine to velvet...I'm still sad about it, its a sore spot. She was my fav..

[Tarolisol]

I used copprumine. It worked great.

Heres a pic before the skin started comin off. It was to gross to take a picture of then.


This was in the early stagesm and it progressed pretty fast.

[corper]

That is exactly what my fish are getting!!! Man that looks bad. Poor fish.

[bulletsworld]

Yup, thats velvet! EEK!

So cupramine worked great! How many days did you treat with cupramine for? 14days or 21?

BTW, Thanks for the pix!

[dirtyreefer]

Tarolisol: not to hijack this thread but doesn't a stressed boxfish emit toxins? I thought they have a poisonous slime that could wipe out a tank if stressed enough.

[bulletsworld]

Its called called ostracitoxin. Boxfish have the ability to do this yeah, but IME it is VERY rare. They do however feel threatened with their own kind. But I had a boxfish that was fighting Velvet for almost three months and when died still did not release the toxin and wipe out everyone else.

Also I have seen many LFS, put these fish in with aggressive tangs and triggers, get nipped at and still not release toxin. In all the time or known others to have them I have never had one release toxin. But its a good thing to know that its always possible it could happen. keeps you scared and leaves all the cool boxfish for us.

[Tarolisol]

Yeah i never had a problem with the toxin i was always worried when he was sick but never seemed to bug anything. When he got it i removed all my fish and quaritined. All but the clowns but they never got a touch of velvet. I think there super fish. Thats not even as bad as it got it go to a point i thought there was no way the fish would live, its skin was falling off you could see the flesh peel. But he came through.

[corper]

I picked up some cupramine and I am going to begin the long healing process. By that I mean getting over the fact I've lost $300 in FISH!! Holy smokes. I'm sure the fish are going to love the ten gallon tank I'm going to shove them in.

[Tarolisol]

Yeah the good ale ten gallon. Thats what i used looked kinda funny to have all those fish in there. But better there then dead. Oh and just to make sure dont put the cleaner shrimp in there

[corper]

No, don't worry, only fish. Just wondering. Do you think a fresh water bath would work. I remember reading somewhere this worked to remove the white spots. Your supposed to soak the fish in fresh water(PH adjusted of course) for 10-15 min.