Might have to eat my own words re: quarantine

[Acipenser]

Ouch that's my biggest fear. I don't have a quarantine tank either - so far I have been lucky -

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Acipenser

so far I have been lucky -

I guess I have too, been doing this 12 years and I've never really seen velvet. Except I guess at Anthony's house, but mine aren't gasping.

[marie]

Advanced marine velvet makes the fish look like they have been coated with flour, copper treatment and quarantine is the best way to treat it.

Fish with marine velvet get very twitchy and hide in the rocks

you can do the freshwater dip but that means having multiple hospital tanks where you dip the fish and put them in a fresh hospital tank every couple of days.......very labour intensive

[Aquattro]

Just lost the filefish. The problem is catching any of these fish, I'd really have to tear the tank apart. I may have to try and catch what I can with the fish trap, catch my wrasses at night while in the sand. The smaller ones might have to stay in, like the damsels and spotted goby. I'm going to try and set up a tank and catch what I can...

[marie]

Good luck, helplessly watching all the fish die is the worst experience ever......

[The Grizz]

Oh Crap Brad, I had Velvet hit my 65 gal ( total loss ) when I first started SW and could not find anyone around here that could help ( before CanReef) Good luck bud, I hope it turns out not to be MV.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Just lost the filefish. The problem is catching any of these fish, I'd really have to tear the tank apart. I may have to try and catch what I can with the fish trap, catch my wrasses at night while in the sand. The smaller ones might have to stay in, like the damsels and spotted goby. I'm going to try and set up a tank and catch what I can...

might be best to see if someone can come give you a hand catching the fish or if you have to move rocks and such its always nice having a dry pair of hands on stand by.

sorry to hear about your fish man id say marie is right get em out and treated asap

[Snappy]

Brad I feel your pain. I am also going through velvet & cloudy eye in my tank. I added 2 fish that I bought on boxing day (haven't seen either of them since) and within a few days my fish started getting sick and in the past month I have lost at least 50 fish and counting.
My death list off the top of my head so far:
clowns x4
firefish
pencil wrasse
yellow coris wrasse
leopard wrasse x 2
6 line wrasse x 2
chromis x 12
asfer angel
majestic angel
powder blue tang
chevron tang
regal tang
royal gramma x 2
mandarins x 2
pipefish
damsel
bicolor blenny
naso tang
sailfin tang
pyramid butterflies x 2
+ a bunch more I can't think of right now. I had over 80 fish in my system and now I don't.

[dc4]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

not sure I have 180g of containers, but good idea.

If your tank is 180g, it would be a lot less in saltwater if you count for the rock and coral volume. Hope everything works out...

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[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by dc4

If your tank is 180g, it would be a lot less in saltwater if you count for the rock and coral volume. Hope everything works out...

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Ya, but with sump, it goes back up to 180. But, I might have enough. My frag tank is 90 and I have 90 sump outside. Hopefully it holds water