Might have to eat my own words re: quarantine

[fishoholic]

From what I remember the velvet can be floating in the water (like ich) so I would use new SW.

What I did (major PITA but it worked) was set up a 110g QT tank with new SW and I did a 50% water change every other day so ammonia would not build up, and treated with cuppermine (sp?) for 2 weeks. During the copper treatment I bought 80 pounds of cured LR from a tank shut down and set up a 90ish gallon rubbermaid. Transferred all my fish (only 8 left out of 34) after treatment into the rubbermaid (did weekly w/c) and kept them there for 6 weeks. They were out of the display for 8 weeks total then I slowly added them back into the display after that. Ran only heaters and powerheads in QT and the rubbermaid.

I used PVC pipes for hiding spots in the QT and followed the instructions on the cuppermine bottle for treatment

[George]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

From what I remember the velvet can be floating in the water (like ich) so I would use new SW.

That's correct. marine velvet just like marine ich has a free floating stage. Don't use old water.

[no_bs]

Ouch, sorry to hear. Hope all works out for you.

[kien]

Oh dear.. sorry to hear that Brad. Having gone through velvet myself, I feel for ya. As others have said, time is not on your side unfortunately.

[Aquattro]

Christy just showed up, so we're draining now. BRB.

[Aquattro]

Done. Missed 2 fish.