Might have to eat my own words re: quarantine

[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......

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by marie

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

Ya, 2 down so far. I'm going to set up a tank and see what I can catch, then decide how to proceed. I may have to sacrifice a couple of smaller fish to save the corals. Tearing apart a tank this size with the amount of SPS I have would end badly.

[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

[Aquattro]

Greg, pretty sure it is. It hit fast and hard. The filefish was only slightly a concern at 8am. Dead at 10:15.

Denny, the problem is I can't move rock. The design of the tank is such that all the corals essentially encrust the top layer of rock. If I start moving rock, I might as well tear the tank down.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Greg, pretty sure it is. It hit fast and hard. The filefish was only slightly a concern at 8am. Dead at 10:15.

Denny, the problem is I can't move rock. The design of the tank is such that all the corals essentially encrust the top layer of rock. If I start moving rock, I might as well tear the tank down.

AH SHYTE!! wish I could offer help bud, this sucks. Good luck

[Borderjumper]

For those of you that have had this.. Is this the way it usually happens? If MV can kill so fast, it doesn't make sense to me that it would take 5-6 weeks AFTER introducing it into your tank for the outbreak to occur.