One dead fish a day HELP - Page 3

Tarolisol · #21 10-23-2004, 02:52 AM

It would depend on the fish, some fish dont take well to freshwater. Like the box fish. But for most fish it couldnt hurt. What kind of fish do you have. Also i dont know if freshwater dip will work very well for velvet. But it couldnt hurt at this point.

corper · #22 10-23-2004, 03:52 AM

I've already lost my butterflies, and have only damsels, clowns & a six line wrasse.

Tarolisol · #23 10-23-2004, 03:59 AM

You could try the freshwater then go for quarintine tank with copper. Sorry for all your loses. The damsels and pretty resilient, they seemed to live through anything clowns are ushully pretty good fighters as well. Deffinitly go with the copper.

bulletsworld · #24 10-23-2004, 04:31 AM

Freshwater dips does help for Velvet. You only dip them max up to five minutes. 10-15mins is way to long. Freshwater dips help relieve the velvet but if your sticking the fish right back in the infected tank they will just get infected again. Only thing is copper away in a cycled Qt tank.

If tank is not cycled yet. You can use the transfer method to tie you over. Using rubber maid containers, add heater, used filter media from main tank, an aquaclear and powerhead if got it. Then freshwater dip all fish, one by one (matching temp & Ph) & then add fish after done to the new rubbermaid container tub (premixed) of same salinity, temp, & PH as main tank. You would have to do this every three days, the transfer method as this parasite can complete its life cycle in as little as three-five days. This transfer method is good to use until QT is ready to go. Its a pain but helps and also already starts your main tank following away its best to leave tank fallow for the 6weeks at least.

Great link to read on Marine Velvet & freshwater dips and its effects with Velvet.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...loodinium.html

Tarolisol · #25 10-23-2004, 05:54 AM

bullets got good advice, I say do it that way.

Coldwater · #26 10-25-2004, 03:46 AM

One of my Longhorn Cowfish suffered the same fate.

Matt

corper · #27 10-26-2004, 02:56 AM

Well its been a couple of long days. I lost 2 more damsels and 2 percula clowns. My clarkii and tomato clowns both had cloudy eyes and white crap all over them yesterday, and today both of their eyes have cleared up and their scales are looking better. They have been in the anemone for 4 days straight. Their breathing is even slowing down. My six line wrasse doesn't seem to be bothered by the whole chain of events and my remaining 4 out of 5 chromis are still looking good.

Not that I want to jinks the remaining soliders but overall they are looking ok.

I finally got my sump running last night. Added a huge dose of of nice fresh salty water. It really seems to have brought them around.

Dose the sump need to run 24 hours a day or can it be shut off at night. The overflow box is a little loud (right outside the bedroom).

danny zubot · #28 10-26-2004, 02:11 PM

You should consider your sump as a the same tank as your main tank. By turning it off at night you are reducing the water flow in the sump therefor alowing the water to become stagnant, which is not good. It becomes a breading ground for all kinds of nasty little creatures, much like a swamp breads mosquitos. Is this your regular regiment for your set up? If so I could have aided in the outbreak of marine velvet.

corper · #29 10-27-2004, 03:33 AM

No. Since I turned the sump on I have not turned it off. Its really not as loud as I thought. I slept right through the noise last night. In fact I thought a couple of times that it had stopped running.

Just wondering though, how could I have stopped the marine velvet. Also at this point i am not even sure if thats what it is. The clowns seem fine one day and flakey the next (excuse the spelling). Their eyes looked good yesterday, but today their are a few spots on them. The cleaner shrimp seem to be cleaning off a bit of the junk. I put a few fish in the QTank but they died in less than a couple of hours. Tested the copperin the tank and everything looked good. PH and salinity where good as well, no nitrites or amonia. Just keeping my fingures crossed that they get better.

danny zubot · #30 10-27-2004, 03:02 PM

I was at Big Al's yesterday picking up some food and browsing. They have a tank with a Nice Angel (regal maybe) that looked as though it had marine velvet. It actually looked like its skin was made of velvet! Anyway, they put it in a tank with 6 or 7 large cleaner shrimp who would take turns picking at the disease. The Angel looked as though it was enjoying itself so you may want to try that method.