Velvet an TTM

Breakthecycle2 · Oct 14, 2016

WHats the reason TTM doesnt work for velvet?

Brew12 · Oct 14, 2016

Velvet has a much quicker life cycle than ich. Once ich falls off a fish (3-7 days after infecting if I recall correctly) it won't release a new generation of swimmers for at least 2 weeks.
Velvet can also stay on a fish for several days, but it releases swimmers for the new generation in an average of 4 days. This means with velvet you can continuously be having the old generation releasing while a current generation is hatching. You "might" be able to break the cycle with enough transfers done daily but it would be challenging.

Breakthecycle2 · Oct 14, 2016

Brew12 said:
Velvet has a much quicker life cycle than ich. Once ich falls off a fish (3-7 days after infecting if I recall correctly) it won't release a new generation of swimmers for at least 2 weeks.
Velvet can also stay on a fish for several days, but it releases swimmers for the new generation in an average of 4 days. This means with velvet you can continuously be having the old generation releasing while a current generation is hatching. You "might" be able to break the cycle with enough transfers done daily but it would be challenging.

Thank you

melypr1985 · Oct 14, 2016

Brew12 said:
Velvet has a much quicker life cycle than ich. Once ich falls off a fish (3-7 days after infecting if I recall correctly) it won't release a new generation of swimmers for at least 2 weeks.
Velvet can also stay on a fish for several days, but it releases swimmers for the new generation in an average of 4 days. This means with velvet you can continuously be having the old generation releasing while a current generation is hatching. You "might" be able to break the cycle with enough transfers done daily but it would be challenging.

Yup. +1

germs101 · Oct 14, 2016

Breakthecycle2 said:
WHats the reason TTM doesnt work for velvet?

I've been wondering the same thing. Personally, I'd be up for daily water changes if it took care of velvet.

Brew12 · Oct 14, 2016

germs101 said:
I've been wondering the same thing. Personally, I'd be up for daily water changes if it took care of velvet.

Honestly, even if you could break the velvet cycle doing daily changes I'm not sure the fish would live through the 2nd one with as fast as velvet attacks once the fish starts showing visible signs.

germs101 · Oct 14, 2016

Brew12 said:
Honestly, even if you could break the velvet cycle doing daily changes I'm not sure the fish would live through the 2nd one with as fast as velvet attacks once the fish starts showing visible signs.

That's a really good point.