The last 48 hours have been a relative nightmare. Three weeks ago we decided to stimulate the local fish store with our stimulus check. We got a cleaner shrimp and a scarlet red shrimp. We also got a pistol shrimp friend for the watchman we had. Also re upped on some blue and red leg hermits. Long story short I didn’t quarantine them. Two days ago my emperor was looking rough. I was not prepared with the meds I needed to treat. I also was not able to identify what I was dealing with immediately. I spent a total of six hours scraping and looking through a microscope until I was able to verify I was dealing with a very bad velvet infestation. It took three weeks almost to the day to present the symptoms that I could tell something was wrong.
Currently I have three dead fish, and 5 in a hospital tank with copper. Also a clown that is presenting with the classic symptoms of rapid breathing and the iconic velvety appearance in a separate isolated tank with copper since she looks very bad and probably won’t make it through the night.
This experience has devastated our family watching our pets, family members, dying and nothing I could do.
Take my advice and quarantine anything you put in your tank. Regardless of what you think, it can happen to you....
This is a video of the velvet from a gill clipping.
Currently I have three dead fish, and 5 in a hospital tank with copper. Also a clown that is presenting with the classic symptoms of rapid breathing and the iconic velvety appearance in a separate isolated tank with copper since she looks very bad and probably won’t make it through the night.
This experience has devastated our family watching our pets, family members, dying and nothing I could do.
Take my advice and quarantine anything you put in your tank. Regardless of what you think, it can happen to you....
This is a video of the velvet from a gill clipping.
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