Kyle Iezzi
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My girlfriend and I began our saltwater journey in January, and we followed all suggestions..adding live rock and live sand, cycling, adding inverts first, then adding fish. We began with two clown fish, then a yellow tang, then a powder blue tang, then a square back anthia, and six chromis.
In April we bought the Anthia, the PB, and the Chromis. A week after buying, the Anthia showed signs of fin-rot and soon died...A week after that our PB developed a "fuzzy" appearance, what we thought was Ich, but we soon realized was Velvet as within 5 days all of our fish had died, except one Blue/Green Chromis.
Unfortunately, we were set to go out of town until the end of May, and left the one survivor with a fish sitter. We came back at the beginning of June and the Chromis was still alive. A few days later we decided that we would buy three more Chromis to see if the Velvet had died off seeing that the other Chromis was happy and healthy.
It has since been two weeks and we have lost two of the new Chromis along with the survivor Chromis....This time the fish that passed did not show any signs of Ich or Velvet, they looked completely normal, except they showed signs of difficulty breathing before they died.
We test our water every week and have never been outside of safe range. We do a water change every other week, while doing a filter change in the in-between weeks. We also keep the tank at 78 degrees and feed mysis shrimp.
We understand that we are going to need to implement a QT, and are completely willing to do that, but we are not sure where to begin.
Is this still Velvet?
Do we need to fallow the tank? (We have snails, hermits, a conch, a cleaner shrimp, and an anemone)
Should we completely empty the tank and clean the rock and sand?
Could we fill the tank with RO and let the pests in the rock and sand die?
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you
In April we bought the Anthia, the PB, and the Chromis. A week after buying, the Anthia showed signs of fin-rot and soon died...A week after that our PB developed a "fuzzy" appearance, what we thought was Ich, but we soon realized was Velvet as within 5 days all of our fish had died, except one Blue/Green Chromis.
Unfortunately, we were set to go out of town until the end of May, and left the one survivor with a fish sitter. We came back at the beginning of June and the Chromis was still alive. A few days later we decided that we would buy three more Chromis to see if the Velvet had died off seeing that the other Chromis was happy and healthy.
It has since been two weeks and we have lost two of the new Chromis along with the survivor Chromis....This time the fish that passed did not show any signs of Ich or Velvet, they looked completely normal, except they showed signs of difficulty breathing before they died.
We test our water every week and have never been outside of safe range. We do a water change every other week, while doing a filter change in the in-between weeks. We also keep the tank at 78 degrees and feed mysis shrimp.
We understand that we are going to need to implement a QT, and are completely willing to do that, but we are not sure where to begin.
Is this still Velvet?
Do we need to fallow the tank? (We have snails, hermits, a conch, a cleaner shrimp, and an anemone)
Should we completely empty the tank and clean the rock and sand?
Could we fill the tank with RO and let the pests in the rock and sand die?
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you
