Marine velvert

[Callum121]

Hi all I do believe I have marine velvert in my tank I was battling his levels in the tank and they have now settled fish all still eating I'm not sure how to proceed have a puffer fish and clowns and few damsels ideally I want something I can add into the tank got a uv running aswell now to help out any other ideas

 

[Spare time]

You need to pull them out and treat them with copper or run hyposalinity and take the inverts out if it's velvet. Post pics under white light so we can confirm.

 

[littlefoxx]

@Jay Hemdal @vetteguy53081 will help. Puffers dont do well with copper, these guys can provide more info! They also will want to see videos and pictures in white light to help confirm it actually is velvet before advising you further

 

[Sharkbait19]

Velvet is typically diagnosed by rapid breathing and the fish swimming into the flow. Any spots or dusting isn’t often seen, as the fish dies first.
Puffers will tolerate coppersafe well.

 

[littlefoxx]

Velvet is typically diagnosed by rapid breathing and the fish swimming into the flow. Any spots or dusting isn’t seen, as the fish dies first.
Puffers will tolerate coppersafe well.

Sorry I meant cuparmine which is what LFS usually sells to treat the fish and thats not good for puffers I was told?

 

[Callum121]

Added some videos

 

[Sharkbait19]

Sorry I meant cuparmine which is what LFS usually sells to treat the fish and thats not good for puffers I was told?

Yeah - as far as I know they won’t do well with cupramine.

Added some videos

could you post the videos as YouTube links? It’s easier to view on mobile.

 

[Callum121]

How do I do that sorry new to all this

 

[Callum121]

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hi all I do believe I have marine velvert in my tank I was battling his levels in the tank and they have now settled fish all still eating I'm not sure how to proceed have a puffer fish and clowns and few damsels ideally I want something I can add into the tank got a uv running aswell now to help out any other ideas

Please describe symptoms such as appetite, appearance, swimming in path of water flow and mainly video and pics under white light intensity for clear assessment
Not sure how assessments are being made without this

 

[Callum121]

Symptoms are ich like body but dusty looking appetite is okay all are still eating and swimming as normal

 

[Uncle99]

Velvet is a fast killer, unlike ick.
If your fish have velvet, will die in 2-3days if that.
Not thinking that’s velvet. It doesn’t look like any velvet I’ve seen, usually uncountable dots, very tiny, over large section, like dust.
I see mucus around mouth and something stuck to it.

 

[Callum121]

Yeah I've been reading up alot on velvet just convinced myself it was that it's been around 5 days now

 

[Sharkbait19]

Looks more like late stage ich to me - either way, treatment is the same.
Get the fish into copper asap.
It should be administered in a separate qt at 2.25 ppm (for coppersafe or copper power) and the display tank should remain fishless for 60 days.

 

[Callum121]

I don't have anything as a qt and no funds really available to get another decent size for all fish to be in for 2 months

 

[Sharkbait19]

Do you have any inverts in the tank?
If no, hyposalinity is an option.

 

[Callum121]

Puffer
Starfish
2 clowns
2 damsels
1 manderain
1 false gamma

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hi all I do believe I have marine velvert in my tank I was battling his levels in the tank and they have now settled fish all still eating I'm not sure how to proceed have a puffer fish and clowns and few damsels ideally I want something I can add into the tank got a uv running aswell now to help out any other ideas

Are you confident in your diagnosis? Velvet is a lot rarer than ich is, and with velvet, the fish usually stop feeding pretty soon into the infection.

Can you post a video of the fish?

Jay

 

[Callum121]

I added a video earlier of the puffer fish I will update with more tomorrow

 

[Callum121]

Lost my clown fish today so I'm really not sure what to do only tank I've got access to is a 30l tank and that's far to small for the puffer fish so I need help on doing hypo salinity all fish are covered in a film like ich running uv aswell to try help out