What I was meant by that is that I am not willing to Dose my Tank and lose all my coral.. I didn't have a QT set up due to my inexperience, which got me here in the first place.
And from what I have read, I don't have time to set up and cycle a treatment tank before its too late... I'm not happy about any of this at all, and wish I had a QT setup... I will try to get an all-in-one in the enxt few days and see if I can rush the cycle somehow and try to save the fish... and then starve the tank while I treat the fish I suppose?
Cant I treat them all together?
Don't I need livestock in the tank to have nutrients etc to maintain corals?
Will keeping inverts in the tank give the parasite a home or is it fish-only?
Should I take the shrimp, crab, hermits, and snails out as well?
I'm a 1st timer... Just don't know enough to handle this alone...
The freshwater dip probably knocked down his parasite burden, but he will be worse again and soon.
This thread explains how to treat for velvet.
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...share_tid=217570&share_fid=1020&share_type=t
Yes you can treat them all together. You dont have to have an aquarium really, you can use plastic storage containers, a stock tank or anything food safe that will hold water and allow a hob filter and heater to be attached. An aquarium is ideal because you can see the fish better to monitor, might see if craigslist has anything to offer or a local reef club.
Try to get some biospira or dr Tim's one and only, let the hob filters sponge soak in that and add it in. An ammonia alert badge would also be good to monitor levels. Once you get copper in the tank, other ammonia tests are useless. The cycle will have to helped along with large water changes as needed to keep ammonia in check
Fish parasites need fish to continue the life cycle, they dont infect inverts. Everything else in the tank can stay, just the fish have to come out.
Nutrients can be added to the tank, using coral foods or even just feeding fish food to the tank. Just monitor the levels. Some people even keep reefs with no fish, just have to make sure you have some nutrients going in.
Your not alone, lots of good people here will help you. Velvet kills very quickly though, if you can get them out tonight is better. This is an emergency type situation with velvets speed of kill.
Meds needed are Copper, preferably a chelated copper like copper power. And a copper test kit to match the type of copper you buy.
And ideally, Acriflavine -ruby reef rally is usually the easiest to find med that has acriflavine.
