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Old 10-28-2009, 02:23 AM
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I had to pull my female black and white clown today in order to hospitalize her for what I am thinking is velvet. Its mainly on her....face? and eyes so shes having trouble seeing. (shes the only one with symptoms, go figure.)

My question is will the smaller male change to a female in the 3-4 weeks I plan on isolating the female? Im hoping when I reintroduce them there wont b any problems.
If it is velvet, I would be more worry about quarantine and treating all the fish in the aquarium; if it is velvet, it will kill almost all the fish in the tank. It needs to be treated with copper as typical hyposalinity treatment down to 1.009 will not work for velvet.

Let's hope it's just ich.
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