Ich or velvet?

[oscarfl]

I noticed my yellow tang has white spots and white patches on the skin and I was wondering if this is ich or velvet, thank you in advance for the help.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I noticed my yellow tang has white spots and white patches on the skin and I was wondering if this is ich or velvet, thank you in advance for the help.

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

That’s not velvet. It’s either ich or mucus plugs. Seeing some spots on the fins tells me this is ich.

You’ll need to treat all exposed fish away from all corals an invertebrates with either chelated copper or hyposalinity. I can walk you through those treatments if you wish.

 

[oscarfl]

Hi Jay, thank you so much for your response, I would appreciate the guidance.

Oscar

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hi Jay, thank you so much for your response, I would appreciate the guidance.

Oscar

First step is for you to decide which treatment you want to use. The copper treatment is listed as part of our general quarantine guidelines:

Current Quarantine Protocol

2024 Quarantine Procedures Jay Hemdal David Scarborough Protozoans (Cryptocaryon/ich, Amyloodinium/velvet) and Metazoan trematodes/flukes are by far the most common parasites found on newly acquired fish. A carefully managed, proactive quarantine process can effectively eliminate these...

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Hyposalinity isn’t used as often, but it can be less expensive, and doesn’t contaminant rocks with copper. The outline for that is here:

Hyposalinity

Hyposalinity Jay Hemdal 2024 This term refers to a long-term bath treatment for marine fishes in which the salt content of the water is lowered and held below the point that certain parasites can survive. The salt level reached, and the time of the treatment are the two variables...

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