Marine Velvet horribleness

[Myka]

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]

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

[i have crabs]

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]

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]

OMG Laurie I don't even know what to say... there are no words that could possibly make you feel better right now...You know where I am if you need to talk.

[Chaloupa]

OH NO...I was hoping your next post was going to say that things are the same with no losses...I am so sad for you. You lost some beautiful fish.

[mark]

this is really sad to hear.

[Lance]

"Damn" I was hoping you wouldn't lose anymore.

[Canuckgod420]

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.[/quote]

At least there is something positive out of this whole mess...sorry to hear of your losses.

[fishoholic]

So as if it's not bad enough that I'm losing my fish "one by one" which makes me think of the new murder mystery series Happer's Island (good tv show) is were their catch line is that all the people will die "one by one" (which is said by this little girl in a creepy spooky voice) the worst thing I have ever witness happened last night that will forever haunt me and give me nightmares (as if this whole thing wasn't my worst nightmare already).

So my regal tang shortly before she died (I honestly think she was trying to commit suicide) she starts thrashing around in the tank literally ramming her head into the tank walls as hard as she can, smashing her head on top of the piece of ply-wood and egg create covering that we're using as a lid (to keep the wrasses in) over and over again for about 3 minutes (which felt like a lifetime) and she did this about 3 times before she sunk to the bottom and died. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing, it was very horrible to watch It was like she was trying to tell me to put her out of her misery but I just couldn't bring myself to do it, I feel so awful and anytime I think about it I start to cry

My naso tang and my yellow tang are dead. My sailfin doesn't look good and (the big piggy) wouldn't eat last night. My king angel ate but since I have lost all my other angels, I don't have a lot of hope for her right now.

Finally caught the 6 line wrasse out of the reef tank last night (got to be to late yesterday to do it, and we ended up taking out almost all to rock to be able to get him) it took about 2 hours to do catch him and 2 min.'s in the QT for him to die

Someone recommended a fresh water dip on the ones that look bad, it's supposed to get rid of the larvae or eggs in their gills which is cutting off their air supply and might give them a chance to survive. Seems worth trying, unfortunately it will have to wait until tonight as I need to get ready for work.