Do you have a QT tank?

[Louis Z]

Correct, TTM does not work for velvet unless you also include peroxide dips as part of the process. You can use 75 to 100 ppm 30 minute dips and move the fish to a sterile tank each time for three dips to help with that.

True velvet is pretty rare though, advanced ich is often mistaken for it.

I do believe in the dips between transfers and the prophylactic use of praziquantel and metronidazole during the TTM . Peroxide bath and freshwater dips are such an easy intervention between transfers
My ideal QT tank. would be a UV / diatom filter. I would use a power head or laminar flow pump situated on the bottom . It would be on intermittent on /off cycle so as to keep any trophonts / eggs In suspension .I want them free floating to make them available for them to be sucked into the filter .

 

[winxp_man]

Ya it happened really fast. All fish had been in for quite a while (years) and were fine until I brought in a emperor angel that I wasn't aware was being housed in 1.015 salinty and within 2 days fish started dropping the angel the first to go. I was going to let everything die and walk away but my Gal and Daughter shamed me into setting up a stock tank and starting treatment. I'm happy to say after 5 years those 3 tangs I managed to save are still under my care and two have now been in for over 9 and 10 years so a somewhat happy ending.

Powder blue did this to me. Out of 27 fish, I saved 14. I went nuclear though. Formalin dip, then copper power. Velvet drops them so fast! It’s insane. Until then, I never thought it would get me.

 

[Paul B]

No, I do not have a quarantine tank.