white dust?

[George]

sorry to hear that. When you see symptoms for velvet, it's usually too late. A fresh water dip before you put them in the hospital tank might kill off some of parasites on the fish skin.
Good luck.

[MMAX]

It is a nightmare, I dealt with it just over 2 years ago. Depending on how many fish you have, you'll need a bigger hospital tank. Velvet took out 3 of my 8 fish and I was able to keep the 5 of them in a 20gal. I left my main tank fishless for 3 months just to make sure it was gone. Sorry to hear you have this and good luck dealing with it.

[ickmagnet]

Not good.....every fish that I was able to catch has died in the hospital tank. there are two remaining in the main tank (hippo tang and green wrasse). I abandoned trying to catch them. I've spent all night last night and today again since I've been home. I've taken out the rock but it just isn't happening. the green wrasse burrows himself into the sand and cannot be found. The hippo so far seems to be 100% healthy and just way too fast to catch. I've tried to add a glass barrier but I'm still having a hell of a time.

The fish that I was able to catch were not as fast due to the disease and were basically beyond hope.

I'm gonna give it a snother shot but is there any chance that fish can fight it off on their own?? If not, I'll keep trying. I did notice that they do have a white film on them. is it too late?

The only silver lining here is that I can now start treating my aiptasia outbreak. I'll by a bunch of peppermint shrimp and not feed the tank. Hopefully this forces them to eat off the aiptasia

[daniella3d]

YOu can't add any new fish until you have treated all of the contaminated fish in QT and have left the main tank empty of fish for 8 weeks.

When was last time you added something?

This is why quarantine make sense... it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.

[howdy20012002]

if it is Velvet I would be very surprised that any survive if you dont treat them with copper.
IMO you need to catch the remaining fish and treat them if you want to give them a chance to survive.

[ickmagnet]

Trust me, I'm not planning on adding new fish for a long long time. I was thinking of adding peppermint shrimp to eat off the aiptasia. is this a no no as well?

I have not added a new fish to my tank in over 2 years. The only thing I can think of is that about a month ago, my clown fish jumped out of the tank and lucky for it, I happened to be in the area. I was able to get him into the tank again alive. His eye began to bulge after a few days so maybe this is what caused it?

That is the only thing I can think of

[howdy20012002]

if you added coral within the last month then it could have come on that in a dormant stage and then hatched in your tank.
that is very odd because there is no way that marine velvet would have been in your tank for 2 years without wiping it out.
Marine Velvet is horrible and brutally efficient at wiping out complete tanks in a very very short period of time.
other than that, I have no explaination.

[ickmagnet]

Nope, no new coral either. It really doesn;t make sense. The first to go was my second jumper (foxface). I found him the next day all dried up on the floor. Then it was my powder blue. Then the first jumper (clown). Then my purple tang and now my tomato clown. I've given up trying to catch the hippo tang. He's looking like a goner too and there is no use. It is just crazy how fast it happens. One day they are eating and the next day they are dead.

It could only have been from the clown that originally jumped out. His eye bulged and likely infected the rest of the tank. He was the only guy that was introduced back into the tank after the fall. I can't even remember the last time I bought a fish.

The more I think about it, the more I may be leaning towards getting out of the hobby. It is difficult to see all your fish go like this.