Marine Velvet horribleness

Lance · #1 04-20-2009, 09:44 PM

This really sucks! I know how much your fish mean to you. Cupramine is good stuff and hopefully does the trick. (fingers crossed)

fishoholic · #2 04-20-2009, 11:49 PM

Thanks everyone, you have all been very kind to me during this stressful time. I just want everyone to know how much I appreciate it.

Diana to answer your questions I need to treat them with the copper med.'s for 2 weeks and I need to keep the tanks fish free for 6 weeks.

Marie I know you were almost scared to ask me how they were this morning, well I admit I was scared to check

Now I'm hanging around at work because I'm afraid of what awaits me at home

However I will be heading home to face the music soon, and I will keep this thread updated frequently to let everyone know how it's going.

my2rotties · #3 04-21-2009, 12:16 AM

So glad you could get them all out and treat them though. Keep your chin up, you will rebuild and continue. There will be a day that you look at your tanks again and be in awe. At least you have time to do some mods to make life easier.

Just go play killer zombie games with the man, and try to relax a little bit. You have done all that you could and now have to get through it. Thank goodness for some people on this forum that make life bearable and are very understanding. They know whom they are, these people ROCK!!!

I am hoping the fish that stuck it out this long will survive since they endured the worst and hung in there for you.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

Thanks everyone, you have all been very kind to me during this stressful time. I just want everyone to know how much I apperciate it.

Diana to answer your questions I need to treat them with the copper med.'s for 2 weeks and I need to keep the tanks fish free for 6 weeks.

Marie I know you were almost scared to ask me how they were this morning, well I admit I was scared to check

Now I'm hanging around at work because I'm afraid of what awaits me at home

However I will be heading home to face the music soon, and I will keep this thread updated frequently to let everyone know how it's going.

Myka · #4 04-21-2009, 01:04 AM

Ouch!! That is really horrible. Sorry for the losses.

I don't run a QT for my smaller tanks because it's not feasible when there are only 3-4 fish, but when I set up my 90 I will be QTing all new fish.

Leah · #5 04-21-2009, 01:34 AM

Heart breaking, thinking how you must be feeling. Hope things take a quick
turn around for you.

i have crabs · #6 04-21-2009, 02:12 AM

im sorry too, its really crappy to have things go sour on you to the point of things not making it. ive never read that much about velvet but from what i do know ive always thought it was similar enough to ich that i dont need to be an expert. i think your doing the right thing by coppering the fish in a qt, the assumption that copper kills easily is something i dont pay much mind to since i also use the seachem stuff which is a non cleated copper and much less toxic, normally i do the recomended dose wait the 24 or 48hours they recomend on the bottle and dose it again, and if i think the fish look in bad shape after a day of that ill check amonia/nitrite/nitrate and if thier ok ill dose a 3rd time and leave it at that concentration, the first time i ever did this i used a copper test kit and tried to be safe and ive never bothered since,
about 4 years ago i lost a tank full of large fish to ich only 2 or 3 fish made it 1 died since then,now every fish i get dosent matter from where goes into a qt and is treated with at least 2 doses of copper for 1-2 weeks and ive never seen a spot of ich in any tank since,

again im sorry that you ended up having to lose fish also but please take away the habit of qt'ing every fish from now on.

fishoholic · #7 04-21-2009, 03:39 AM

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Originally Posted by i have crabs

again im sorry that you ended up having to lose fish also but please take away the habit of qt'ing every fish from now on.

Yep lesson learned the hard way. For two years I haven't QT my fish and I started to think my tank was bullet proof and WHAM this happens. I figure it was best to post about it in order to perhaps save someone else the heartbreak that disease can cause from not QTing new fish.

So as of right now my blue ring angel, male clownfish, green clown goby are all dead. My regal tang and naso tang are almost dead, and my king angel is starting to look bad

One good thing is that when we moved all the rock out we caught 2 rock crabs that I didn't know we had. They now live in the sump. The other good news is that all 3 of my sexy shrimp and my peppermint shrimp (that I haven't seen in awhile) are all alive.

my2rotties · #8 04-22-2009, 10:22 PM

Hey Laurie I am hoping the last of them pull through since they endured the very worst. I wonder if you should put anti biotics in the water at some point to help the healing fish not get infections. I would perhaps look into that since they survived this long and you probably don't want an infection to set in in their weakened state. I have no idea if this would be an issue but I am just trying to think ahead of "Murphy's law". I almost have a feeling that you might have to, but really don't know for sure.

Anyone else have any advise on this?