Possible velvet in reef

[Denisk]

Tank isn’t doing as well as I would wish. I have a few sps I brought into my tank over the last couple weeks and appear to be losing fish to velvet. Not sure if it was from the yellow coris wrasse I just brought in a few weeks ago or the sps but I have lost a clown, a green chromis and a fire fish in the last 2 weeks and today I just lost the last clown. Not sure if its velvet 100% but it appears to be that way. The yellow coris wrasse is the only one left. Trying to catch the wrasse will be a nightmare and the amount of rock moving and sand getting stirred up to catch him, I’m afraid will crash the tank. I try to keep my tank like Paul b and never had a problem but this really took my fish. The only thing is I’m definitely not in the position to quarantine fish, snails and all new corals as they come in.

Curious
Has any one ever just left it as is and eventually gotten more fish down the road and somehow it worked out? Or maybe super hardy fish less prone to issues?

Sadly this is what the clown looked like until I found him today dead.

 

[i cant think]

Tank isn’t doing as well as I would wish. I have a few sps I brought into my tank over the last couple weeks and appear to be losing fish to velvet. Not sure if it was from the yellow coris wrasse I just brought in a few weeks ago or the sps but I have lost a clown, a green chromis and a fire fish in the last 2 weeks and today I just lost the last clown. Not sure if its velvet 100% but it appears to be that way. The yellow coris wrasse is the only one left. Trying to catch the wrasse will be a nightmare and the amount of rock moving and sand getting stirred up to catch him, I’m afraid will crash the tank. I try to keep my tank like Paul b and never had a problem but this really took my fish. The only thing is I’m definitely not in the position to quarantine fish, snails and all new corals as they come in.

Curious
Has any one ever just left it as is and eventually gotten more fish down the road and somehow it worked out? Or maybe super hardy fish less prone to issues?

Sadly this is what the clown looked like until I found him today dead.

Those red rashes look more like Uronema to me, which if your Halichoeres doesn’t have red rashes on then it’s not likely to be from that. Considering you had chromis, they are likely to be the issue and what brought it in.

 

[Denisk]

Those red rashes look more like Uronema to me, which if your Halichoeres doesn’t have red rashes on then it’s not likely to be from that. Considering you had chromis, they are likely to be the issue and what brought it in.

I’ll be honest, I don’t even see red rashes but it’s possible. The symptoms we’re kind of all different for the fish. Clownfish had white all over the body and became lethargic, the chromis was completely fine eating like a pig and then dead the next minute. The fire fish had a red gill and then stoped eating. The fish have been with me for a while too so it was odd to see this all happen.

 

[SaltyT]

Could be brook on the clown. You may have multiple things going. Were the fish breathing rapidly before they died? That’s typically the only symptom of velvet before the fish dies.

 

[Denisk]

Could be brook on the clown. You may have multiple things going. Were the fish breathing rapidly before they died? That’s typically the only symptom of velvet before the fish dies.

yeah maybe. Reefing for over 10 years and last time I felt with something like this was in the beginning. But no I never saw rapid breathing. Just noticed them becoming lethargic towards the end with the no eating . Except for the chromis. He just died out of no where and zero symptoms

 

[saltyhog]

Kind of a slow progression for velvet. I agree with SaltyT, looks like it might be Brook to me.

 

[Lavey29]

Classic brook symptoms on the clown. Which spread to all fish. Tanks needs to fallow for 76 days.

 

[Tamberav]

Tank isn’t doing as well as I would wish. I have a few sps I brought into my tank over the last couple weeks and appear to be losing fish to velvet. Not sure if it was from the yellow coris wrasse I just brought in a few weeks ago or the sps but I have lost a clown, a green chromis and a fire fish in the last 2 weeks and today I just lost the last clown. Not sure if its velvet 100% but it appears to be that way. The yellow coris wrasse is the only one left. Trying to catch the wrasse will be a nightmare and the amount of rock moving and sand getting stirred up to catch him, I’m afraid will crash the tank. I try to keep my tank like Paul b and never had a problem but this really took my fish. The only thing is I’m definitely not in the position to quarantine fish, snails and all new corals as they come in.

Curious
Has any one ever just left it as is and eventually gotten more fish down the road and somehow it worked out? Or maybe super hardy fish less prone to issues?

Sadly this is what the clown looked like until I found him today dead.

I caught several wrasses including sand sleeping ones simply using a fish trap from Amazon and feeding inside the box. They eventually went in. They are hungry pigs.

Looks like brook to me.

Several venders sell quarantined fish if you don’t want to do it yourself.

Brook is a parasite that lives on the fish, does not form a cyst like velvet and ich so my guess the wrasse brought it in.