dgwkpe
Active Member
I have a 265 gallon DT that has not had any new fish, inverts or any type of outside introduction in the past 10 months. All of my fish were healthy and eating great. Noticed a couple fish starting to flash one day, next day covered with spots and deaths by the morning. In a span of 24 hours I lost the following: Emperor Angel, Blue Face Angel, Lemonpeel Angel, Toadfish, Foxface, Large dogface puffer and Harlequin Tusk. Still swimming around, but looking unhealthy is a Stars Puffer. Still swimming around and looking great (No visable signs of distress) is a Huge orange spot rabbitfish, squirel fish, yellow tail coris wrasse, chainlink eel and zebra eel (These fish don't seem to be as active as usual).
Fairly certain its Marine Velvet due to the symptoms: Quick onset/death, uncountable white dots, velvet skin appearance, swimming in front of powerheads.
All the water parameters are in the normal range. I have a 125 gallon sump with UV, chaeto, protein skimmer, GFO, Carbon.
My question at this point is what to do next. I would love to get all of the existing fish out and into a quarantine tank, however, that many fish would not be too comfortable in my 30 gallon QT. Plus it would not be an easy task getting an 18" zebra eel out of the rocks (He never comes out more than a couple inches to eat, not to mention how fast the coris wrasse is when he's not hiding in the sand. All of my rocks are cemented together so removing rocks to get fish is out. I have some crabs and snails and a few rogue corals.
My initial thoughts on my options:
1. Take out inverts/corals and treat entire DT with Cupramine, then use cuprasorb to remove copper.
or
2. Treat entire DT with Rally (Supposedly kills Marine Velvet?)
I want to make sure that all MV is erradicated! I don't want to go through this again. My preference would be to try the Rally, but I'm uncertain if this will certainly kill all MV from my DT. I don't know how you can ever really know since the fish that are currently alive obviously have some immunity to the MV since they have absolutely no visual symptoms.
I don't see removing all my fish and letting my system go fallow for 8 weeks as an option since removing fish would be extremely difficult if not impossible. Not to mention I don't really have a large enough place to put that many fish without causing too much stress.
Any input or personal experience would be appreciated.
Fairly certain its Marine Velvet due to the symptoms: Quick onset/death, uncountable white dots, velvet skin appearance, swimming in front of powerheads.
All the water parameters are in the normal range. I have a 125 gallon sump with UV, chaeto, protein skimmer, GFO, Carbon.
My question at this point is what to do next. I would love to get all of the existing fish out and into a quarantine tank, however, that many fish would not be too comfortable in my 30 gallon QT. Plus it would not be an easy task getting an 18" zebra eel out of the rocks (He never comes out more than a couple inches to eat, not to mention how fast the coris wrasse is when he's not hiding in the sand. All of my rocks are cemented together so removing rocks to get fish is out. I have some crabs and snails and a few rogue corals.
My initial thoughts on my options:
1. Take out inverts/corals and treat entire DT with Cupramine, then use cuprasorb to remove copper.
or
2. Treat entire DT with Rally (Supposedly kills Marine Velvet?)
I want to make sure that all MV is erradicated! I don't want to go through this again. My preference would be to try the Rally, but I'm uncertain if this will certainly kill all MV from my DT. I don't know how you can ever really know since the fish that are currently alive obviously have some immunity to the MV since they have absolutely no visual symptoms.
I don't see removing all my fish and letting my system go fallow for 8 weeks as an option since removing fish would be extremely difficult if not impossible. Not to mention I don't really have a large enough place to put that many fish without causing too much stress.
Any input or personal experience would be appreciated.
