OH NO marine velvet?

[Benhuan]

Hi all,
Recently I noticed a changed behaviour in my tang and tonight as I shone a light into the tank at night I saw this powdery looking white stuff on my fish they all have it except my tang. Is this marine velvet? If it is how would I go about treating my fish.
thanks!

 

[phatduckk]

Read up on this thread. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/

 

[MERKEY]

Unfortunately it looks like velvet. Ich sucks and fish hate it but are usually still active and eating for the most part. You can also for the most part count ich on your fish. When you are dealing with velvet it does start to resemble what your black clown looks like. A cloudyness to them and more spots than you can count. Fish also start to hide like the one under your Rocks.

To eradicate velvet you will need to remove all the fish and treat in a Quarentine tank for 30 days with CP or cuparmine. Then leave the display empty (fallow) for 72 days.

This will cure the fish and the display.

HOWEVER there is some research going on with members of this site that involves H202 and you can dose the whole display corals and all.

Unfortunately this isnt test %100 yet so knowing if corals will doe die to long H202 exposure is well....unknown.

Definitely read the look ink above and keep us posted!

 

[Benhuan]

Unfortunately the clowns died last night. I put them in a FW bath for 5 mins and then transferred them to therapeutic level copper qt which i slowly added copper to the therapeutic levels. Is it common for the clowns to pass even after in a copper solution. The clowns skin looked like they were peeling white stuff while in the copper QT so maybe it was Brooklynella?

 

[MERKEY]

Unfortunately the clowns died last night. I put them in a FW bath for 5 mins and then transferred them to therapeutic level copper qt which i slowly added copper to the therapeutic levels. Is it common for the clowns to pass even after in a copper solution. The clowns skin looked like they were peeling white stuff while in the copper QT so maybe it was Brooklynella?

Without pics it's hard to say but it does sound like brook.

 

[LAReefer4Life]

Unfortunately the clowns died last night. I put them in a FW bath for 5 mins and then transferred them to therapeutic level copper qt which i slowly added copper to the therapeutic levels. Is it common for the clowns to pass even after in a copper solution. The clowns skin looked like they were peeling white stuff while in the copper QT so maybe it was Brooklynella?

If the skin was peeling off and the fact it was a clownfish odds tell me its most likely brook. It would be extremely helpful to post photos so we can point you in the right direction.