Do I have velvet or what?

[Marie7]

It's tough to say how this happened, but usually when this many fish are affected something else lowered their immune systems enough to take hold. I don't recall if you posted about adding anything new to the tank recently... a fish, coral, live rock, invert, anemone? I know you mentioned in another thread that you were dealing with water quality issues recently (most of us do at some point). You had several fish with large bioloads in your tank, perhaps tank maintenance slipped ... does this correlate to when the fish losses started to occur? Regardless of how it happened, I'm sorry you're going through it.

I did add some corals and anemones

 

[xtian]

Uffff what options do i have? I feel like tear down Completely my tank and , dispose sand and corals and start all over again

Don't toss the coral out

 

[Marie7]

Update: I start treatment on my tank until tomorrow that i will give a big water change, i know that i’m practically removing most of my good bacteria but i bought live bacteria to replace and accelerate the process of rebuild that bacteria back.
I’m also putti g some remedies i bought at the reef place and ask questions as how safe both of the items will be for my invertebrates, MY FOXFACE STILL ALIVE! Crossing my fingers he will do and continue as now, he is a fighter! Corals are doing great, but tomorrow as i mention will do a whole water change and use fresh water to rinse my rocks, again i know that a lot of bacteria there will be gone but i’m hopping to get the bad issues out and resolve soon getting out whatever it is , I’m planning rearrange my rocks to leave open space if possible in the middle to be able to clean behind the rock wall and vaccum my sand as much as possible, I don’t sleep well thinking on my tank how in the world this happen, of course is part of the hobby and I know others has get it worse.... what you guys think and .... do you guys think I should replace the live sand too as I don’t know and no one been able to identify for sure what kill my fishes? My question and thinking is, I may have bad bacteria under the sand even when i vaccum as much as i was able to reach last Saturday...

 

[lakai]

I'm not so sure this is bacterial. I've never seen anything organic that would eat at the fins so aggressively and so quickly like on that sailfin. It might be a good idea to check to see if there is any stray voltage leaking into your tank through your equipment. best of luck and sorry for your losses.

 

[Marie7]

I'm not so sure this is bacterial. I've never seen anything organic that would eat at the fins so aggressively and so quickly like on that sailfin. It might be a good idea to check to see if there is any stray voltage leaking into your tank through your equipment. best of luck and sorry for your losses.

Thanks for the reply, I never thought about that because of the pattern of loosing color and the fins, as far as I know all equipment looks ok maybe I may check the wavemakers more in detail, I'm accepting all suggestions as I want to find out whats going on. Thanks again

 

[Marie7]

Ok I came across this old picture back in September 2018, I miss those guys you see on my tank it was full of corals and healthy fishes no idea where I loose it and what happen, those guys in the picture was pretty big at the time when they dies couple days ago first start with one and a month later or so another gone, last couple days was approx one daily or every week:

Today it looks like this now

 

[Marie7]

Ok Update..... My little fighter couldn't make it, I lost him this morning it was to far beyond of be save, I want to share this pictures after he die and see if some one can identify the issue now i refuse to give up and not find out what kills my fishes as such accelerate rate..... is this is Ick?

 

[lakai]

I'm so sorry, Can you think of what you changed prior to this happening ? New corals ? New inverts ? New pumps or gear?

 

[Marie7]

I'm so sorry, Can you think of what you changed prior to this happening ? New corals ? New inverts ? New pumps or gear?

I add one little fish a cardinal PJ but I also bought a goby that both of them looks very healthy however I also introduce some new corals and a bubble tip anemone but for most of it.. corals

 

[lakai]

Really wish you had pictures before they died, It is very difficult to diagnose after they die.

 

[Marie7]

Really wish you had pictures before they died, It is very difficult to diagnose after they die.

look at my tank and u can see a perfect foxface that spend with me over 3 years, the white spots can be seen when he died and I pull him out of the water but while he was on the water all you saw was a little bit of discoloration, he stop eating too

 

[lakai]

Actually I just looked at the videos, Here is a picture of my purple tang when he had velvet. The sailfin did look dusty like this.

 

[Marie7]

Actually I just looked at the videos, Here is a picture of my purple tang when he had velvet. The sailfin did look dusty like this.

How did u manage it? yes most of my fishes looks dusty the foxface did not have much of a dusty appearance but the spots uff a lot not sure if i have more than one issue on my tank could be ick and velvet not sure

 

[lakai]

I used chloroquine phosphate. My clown died but the purple tang is doing very well.

 

[Marie7]

I used chloroquine phosphate. My clown died but the purple tang is doing very well.

I see i assume u removed it from main tank and treat them in a QT? How u treat the main tank?

 

[lakai]

I took everything out and put all the fish into qt tanks and went fallow for 80days in the dt. I qt everything now and will not allow another wipeout like that ever again.

 

[Marie7]

I took everything out and put all the fish into qt tanks and went fallow for 80days in the dt. I qt everything now and will not allow another wipeout like that ever again.

When u say everything u mean all live rocks invertebrates and corals?

 

[lakai]

When u say everything u mean all live rocks invertebrates and corals?

All my fish, I left the corals, rock, crabs and snails in there.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

You need to post a picture of how everything looks today, not older photos, otherwise it's hard to help

 

[SaltyT]

Are your recent cardinal and goby additions still alive? Sounds like one or perhaps both of them introduced pathogens into your tank. I suspect velvet and flukes, and then a secondary bacterial infection set in. Going fallow at this point is recommended, as others have said you don’t have to remove rock, corals, inverts or sand. Just keep up with water changes, and keep the sand bed and rocks clean during the fallow period to avoid any hypoxic areas.

I’m sorry for your losses