- Joined
- Jan 20, 2020
- Messages
- 27
- Reaction score
- 27
Hey,
i got a velvet outbreak in my secondary tank. It took a surgeon fish and a dragonette within the first 3-4 days. I got a clownfish mated pair that was ok at the begining but it started to deteriorate fast, there is also a chrysus wrasse and a yasha goby pair that seem to be inmune to it. So yesterday i took the clownfish pair out and placed them in a hospital tank and already dose the first dosage of cupramine. They have always been very avid eaters and since i dose the copper, they have stopped eating altogether. Last time i used copper i got the same result. Fish stop eating, so i was wondering if there is any alternative way of treating velvet besides copper.. (for example for ich, you could rotate the fish between different clean containers every 36 (or 24? cant remember) hours to ensure that the free swimming form of ich can't follow your fish... Is there a treatment similar to this for velvet? I got a spare of everything to be able to do this. (container, heater, pumps, etc)...
Any other way of treatment? i got bad results with copper everytime. (got the hanna checker HR and the dosage is correct as per readings and dosage instrucctions but the results aren't good. Fish always stopped eating... (they got a couple of pvc pipes for hiding space and these clowns are not stressed (got them at night superfast and together.)
So, any alternative treating methods? @Jay Hemdal, what do you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
i got a velvet outbreak in my secondary tank. It took a surgeon fish and a dragonette within the first 3-4 days. I got a clownfish mated pair that was ok at the begining but it started to deteriorate fast, there is also a chrysus wrasse and a yasha goby pair that seem to be inmune to it. So yesterday i took the clownfish pair out and placed them in a hospital tank and already dose the first dosage of cupramine. They have always been very avid eaters and since i dose the copper, they have stopped eating altogether. Last time i used copper i got the same result. Fish stop eating, so i was wondering if there is any alternative way of treating velvet besides copper.. (for example for ich, you could rotate the fish between different clean containers every 36 (or 24? cant remember) hours to ensure that the free swimming form of ich can't follow your fish... Is there a treatment similar to this for velvet? I got a spare of everything to be able to do this. (container, heater, pumps, etc)...
Any other way of treatment? i got bad results with copper everytime. (got the hanna checker HR and the dosage is correct as per readings and dosage instrucctions but the results aren't good. Fish always stopped eating... (they got a couple of pvc pipes for hiding space and these clowns are not stressed (got them at night superfast and together.)
So, any alternative treating methods? @Jay Hemdal, what do you recommend?
Thanks in advance.