New Reef Ich Problem

[paddyob]

Rarely and never should be separate.

I never use one. Been lucky I guess. Although my coral beauty developed ich shortly after adding her, but it never spread and she beat it.

Neon goby and cleaner shrimp.

[daniella3d]

I think with velvet it is not really a matter of "if", but rather a matter of "when" it will happen. One could be lucky for years and years and as we saw recently, disaster strike.

These things can be prevented.

Now I wonder if a peroxyde dip and then putting the affected fish into a clean fresh tank with good cured liverock could have saved the velvet infested fish?

I got a really bad strike of discus plague after introducing some new discus to my stock (no quarantine!). They were all dying within about 10 hours later, so I did an extreme mesure and did a permanganate bath for 4 hours (strong oxydizer) and transfered all the fish into a clean tank. I did that each day and the fish all survived...did not lose a single one. At some point my prized show melon female was on its side floating on top of the water and I thought she was dead (not breathing). After the PP bath she revived and she spawned 6 weeks later.

Discus plague is a fast acting bacteria, and is can kill as fast as velvet, even faster.

I guess with velvet getting rid of the parasite fast (really fast) is a must.

I wish I could have a way to mesure precisely 50ppm of peroxyde. Anyone have an idea what concentration would need to be used with 3% peroxide to get 50ppm?

Also anyone ever tried permaganate potassium in saltwater?

Originally Posted by paddyob

Rarely and never should be separate.

I never use one. Been lucky I guess. Although my coral beauty developed ich shortly after adding her, but it never spread and she beat it.

Neon goby and cleaner shrimp.

[fabbroc]

Well looks like I will be quarantining all my fish from now on. Thanks for everyone's input.
So how long should fish be quarantined for? Does anyone medicate for prevention?

[Reef Pilot]

I QT any new fish at least 2 months, and put them through the hyposalinity (no chemicals for me) routine, whether they look sick or not. That also gives them time to get feeding well, and be healthy and strong when introduced to my display tank. I use display tank water at the end when raising the salinity, and that gets them acclimatized prior to the move.