Ich or velvet

[Skimmerdon’tstink]

Help please ! Ich or valvet ?

 

[Sharkbait19]

Take pictures under white light. Hard to make it out in the picture.
Symptoms also would help. Is the fish flashing? Eating? Swimming into flow? Avoiding light?
#fishmedic

 

[celebrityovernight]

Hard to tell because of picture quality but looks like velvet unfortunately

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Help please ! Ich or valvet ?

One good diagnostic to tell ich from velvet is breathing rate. Fish with ich will breath at normal speed right up before they die. Fish with velvet will breath fast/gasp even before you see any spots.
Jay

 

[nereefpat]

Either one is cured with copper in qt. I would do that immediately

 

[Sharkbait19]

Either one is cured with copper in qt. I would do that immediately

Agreed
Especially since I can sort of make out a white coating on the fish which indicates either disease has progressed quite far and you may only have hours to act.

 

[Skimmerdon’tstink]

Take pictures under white light. Hard to make it out in the picture.
Symptoms also would help. Is the fish flashing? Eating? Swimming into flow? Avoiding light?
#fishmedic

It’s for a friend , not eating , kinda swimming sideway .

 

[adittam]

Tell your friend to get all of the fish in the tank into therapeutic level copper immediately if they want to minimize losses.

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[MnFish1]

Help please ! Ich or valvet ?

I vote with @Sharkbait19 - a new picture - I also vote it could be neither Ich or velvet. There is a sticky at the top of the forum that lists several questions - that are helpful to answer - when asking a question. Based on what I see - just the picture - I would say neither.

 

[Skimmerdon’tstink]

I vote with @Sharkbait19 - a new picture - I also vote it could be neither Ich or velvet. There is a sticky at the top of the forum that lists several questions - that are helpful to answer - when asking a question. Based on what I see - just the picture - I would say neither.

The hippo didn’t make it . It was valvet fast death even in QT tank. Clowns and chromes are fine

 

[Sharkbait19]

Sounds like velvet - and that means the other fish aren’t safe.

 

[MnFish1]

The hippo didn’t make it . It was valvet fast death even in QT tank. Clowns and chromes are fine

My guess and its a guess - is that it was a vibrio or pseudomonas infection. So now - the question is what about the rest of the fish? And Btw - sorry - those lesions look (to me) much more bacterial. BTW - I hope you don't take this as a criticism - just thats how it looks to me. welcome

 

[MnFish1]

@Jay Hemdal

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

@Jay Hemdal

Yep - could have been a vibrio infection. I was waiting for clearer pictures and more info. That's the problem with remote disease diagnosis - things can happen too fast, quicker than the time it takes to compile the needed information.....

@Skimmerdon’tstink - you should consider that your other fish are at risk. Take a look at this post:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/s...sease-treatment-and-diagnosis-section.775547/

Jay