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I have had tanks setup for over 20 years and just experienced my first disease problem that I couldn't just feed my way through.
After much reading here I decided the problem was velvet.
I purchased a quarantine tank and got the remaining fish into copper.
It looks like 3 of the 7 fish I started with will survive.
The surviving fish are a yellow tang, purple tang, and an engineer blenny/goby.
I lost a powder blue tang, coral beauty angle, six line wrasse, and a tail spot blenny.
Questions:
I left a cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, cucumber, snails, couple of leather coral, misc colony worms in the display tank. From what I've read none of these will host velvet or ich.
Is this correct?
I'm planning on doing the 76 day fallow period for the display tank in case there was also ich involved.
I just want to make sure that when I put the fish back in that it isn't possible for them to be infected again.
I am still feeding the shrimp in the display tank of course...
Thanks for any insight.
After much reading here I decided the problem was velvet.
I purchased a quarantine tank and got the remaining fish into copper.
It looks like 3 of the 7 fish I started with will survive.
The surviving fish are a yellow tang, purple tang, and an engineer blenny/goby.
I lost a powder blue tang, coral beauty angle, six line wrasse, and a tail spot blenny.
Questions:
I left a cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, cucumber, snails, couple of leather coral, misc colony worms in the display tank. From what I've read none of these will host velvet or ich.
Is this correct?
I'm planning on doing the 76 day fallow period for the display tank in case there was also ich involved.
I just want to make sure that when I put the fish back in that it isn't possible for them to be infected again.
I am still feeding the shrimp in the display tank of course...
Thanks for any insight.