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Posted by Michael Lawford on June 29, 2005, 3:54 am
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I am currently struggling with Velvet in my tank. I have been dosing with
something called 'heal all' but it does not seem to be working well enough.
My midas Blenny is civered and after dosing with Heal All he started to
clear a little at his gills and head but he has not made any progress for a
few days now. What can you guys suggest to get rid of this properly - I
have already lost 3 fish. Stop feeding for a while?
~m
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Posted by George Patterson on June 29, 2005, 11:24 am
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Michael Lawford wrote:
> I am currently struggling with Velvet in my tank. I have been dosing with
> something called 'heal all' but it does not seem to be working well enough.
> My midas Blenny is civered and after dosing with Heal All he started to
> clear a little at his gills and head but he has not made any progress for a
> few days now. What can you guys suggest to get rid of this properly - I
> have already lost 3 fish. Stop feeding for a while?
CopperSafe. Use in conjunction with a good copper test kit. Use half the amount
specified on the bottle, wait 2 hours, test the level, and bring the level up to
.2 ppm. You will probably find that it takes less than the "xxx per gallon"
directions on the bottle. Keep the level up at least .15 ppm for at least a
week. If you have animals in the tank that are sensitive to copper, remove them
George Patterson
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and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.
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Posted by Pszemol on June 29, 2005, 12:02 pm
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[copper medicine]
> If you have animals in the tank that are sensitive to copper, remove them
Do not forget we are on the "*.reefs" newsgroup... be carefull with advises.
You cannot treat animals with copper in a reef tank at all.
You will kill your live rock inhabitants, all worms and other inverts with
copper.
You can only treat some fish (not all species!) with copper in FO tank.
If you have reef tank there is a big problem with copper treatments.
The only way to do it is to move affected fish to the hospital tank and
treat them copper there.
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Posted by George Patterson on June 30, 2005, 12:47 am
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Pszemol wrote:
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> The only way to do it is to move affected fish to the hospital tank and
> treat them copper there.
And when you move them back, the velvet will recur.
George Patterson
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and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.
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Posted by Pszemol on June 30, 2005, 2:00 am
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> Pszemol wrote:
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>> The only way to do it is to move affected fish to the hospital tank and
>> treat them copper there.
>
> And when you move them back, the velvet will recur.
This parasite attacks fish hosts only. If you keep the tank fishless for
long
enough (8 weeks) it will not survive in the reef tank. Keep the fish in
copper long
enough, feed them well and make sure they have room to hide in the hospital
tank to minimalize the stress and you will be fine...
If you use copper medication directly in your reef tank you will soon loose
the whole reef. Corals, inverts will die. What will be left is a bunch of
DEAD
rock and fish... All invertebrates will die from copper. It is deadly toxin,
that is why you use copper for the parasites in the first place...
And again - proper quarantine of your newly introduced fish is the key.
If you like to read more, here is the link about marine velvet disease:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/amylloodiniumart.htm
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> something called 'heal all' but it does not seem to be working well enough.
> My midas Blenny is civered and after dosing with Heal All he started to
> clear a little at his gills and head but he has not made any progress for a
> few days now. What can you guys suggest to get rid of this properly - I
> have already lost 3 fish. Stop feeding for a while?