Hello,
Long story short I had a huge velvet outbreak in my tank, lost bunch of very expensive fish, but also had some that survived. All was going well; I was adding more fish and seems like velvet was gone. Two years later I took down my reef system to replace it with a new one. The fish were held in temporarily holding system and introduced to my new system. All was going well, added some more fish that were fully qt in copper. About 4 months later all new fish- and yes just the new ones, dropped dead within 48h, the only fish that had shown typical velvet symptoms was a PB, and lamarc angel who did not have any white spots but had difficulty breathing. All my old fish are doing fine. I removed them and now they are again treated with copper power. The tank has been fishless for 2 months now, I am planning for another 6 weeks with no fish. Is there anything else that I can do at this point to make sure velvet is not coming back? Should I copper treat all my new fish or 8 weeks conditioning, observing, and deworming will do? I am thinking of doing a water DNA test in about 6 weeks to make sure velvet is gone.
Long story short I had a huge velvet outbreak in my tank, lost bunch of very expensive fish, but also had some that survived. All was going well; I was adding more fish and seems like velvet was gone. Two years later I took down my reef system to replace it with a new one. The fish were held in temporarily holding system and introduced to my new system. All was going well, added some more fish that were fully qt in copper. About 4 months later all new fish- and yes just the new ones, dropped dead within 48h, the only fish that had shown typical velvet symptoms was a PB, and lamarc angel who did not have any white spots but had difficulty breathing. All my old fish are doing fine. I removed them and now they are again treated with copper power. The tank has been fishless for 2 months now, I am planning for another 6 weeks with no fish. Is there anything else that I can do at this point to make sure velvet is not coming back? Should I copper treat all my new fish or 8 weeks conditioning, observing, and deworming will do? I am thinking of doing a water DNA test in about 6 weeks to make sure velvet is gone.
