In the last 2 weeks, I've now lost 3 fish and I'm starting to think it may be velvet, unsure what to do. Per this thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/sick-clownfish.709610/, I lost a newly added Tomini tang after he appeared healthy for about a week. A few days after that my smaller of two clownfish started acting lethargic but otherwise didn't seem to exhibit any outward signs of disease, he passed over the next 2 days. About two days after that I could no longer find my mandarine Goby, I never found the body but presumed dead. I took a very close look at him the day before he disappeared, he had no visible symptoms and was happily hunting pods on the rocks as usual.
The day the Mandarine disappeared a bunch of medicine I ordered finally arrived, Prazi pro, Kanaplex, focus, Metroplex, Furan2 and Copper Power. I dosed the tank with Prazi pro and fed the fish pellets soaked in the other medicines. At this point, for fish, I have one Clownfish and 1 McCoskers flasher Wrasse left in the tank. They both ate and actually appeared to be doing much better, swimming normally and eating a lot, so I was hoping it had been flukes or some sort of internal parasite. Today after 3 days of treatment I removed the Prazi with Carbon and noticed that the clown has spent the entire day swimming into the powerhead. He still eats normally and comes over to the glass when I approach but otherwise swims into the current.
If the light catches him just right I think there are smallish specks on him pictures attached. Now I'm not sure what to do, he appears healthy otherwise and I don't want to overreact/poison him with copper but I'd hate to lose him now. My original plan had been to redose Prazi 7 days after the first and continue feeding the medicated food for 10 days. One other complication, I do not have a copper test available, I ordered a Hanna checker but it likely won't arrive until Thursday.
If it is velvet I'm not 100% sure the next course of action. Would it be best to Freshwater dip him and move to QT with copper or straight to QT? I have a 10 gallon tank for QT, I was thinking of adding 6ml of copper power to try and hit 1.0 copper based on the calculations in this thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ratios-for-dosing-copper-power.385871/ and then dose 1ml per day till Thursday which hopefully would hit around 1.5 in the tank and I'd then have the tester.
So I guess I'm looking for, do you guys think this is velvet? And if so what are my next steps? FW dip both fish, just the clown? Move to QT with the Copper? Thanks in advance for any help.
The below came from live photos and I had to flip through frames to see the specks, they are nearly impossible to see without the camera.
The day the Mandarine disappeared a bunch of medicine I ordered finally arrived, Prazi pro, Kanaplex, focus, Metroplex, Furan2 and Copper Power. I dosed the tank with Prazi pro and fed the fish pellets soaked in the other medicines. At this point, for fish, I have one Clownfish and 1 McCoskers flasher Wrasse left in the tank. They both ate and actually appeared to be doing much better, swimming normally and eating a lot, so I was hoping it had been flukes or some sort of internal parasite. Today after 3 days of treatment I removed the Prazi with Carbon and noticed that the clown has spent the entire day swimming into the powerhead. He still eats normally and comes over to the glass when I approach but otherwise swims into the current.
If the light catches him just right I think there are smallish specks on him pictures attached. Now I'm not sure what to do, he appears healthy otherwise and I don't want to overreact/poison him with copper but I'd hate to lose him now. My original plan had been to redose Prazi 7 days after the first and continue feeding the medicated food for 10 days. One other complication, I do not have a copper test available, I ordered a Hanna checker but it likely won't arrive until Thursday.
If it is velvet I'm not 100% sure the next course of action. Would it be best to Freshwater dip him and move to QT with copper or straight to QT? I have a 10 gallon tank for QT, I was thinking of adding 6ml of copper power to try and hit 1.0 copper based on the calculations in this thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ratios-for-dosing-copper-power.385871/ and then dose 1ml per day till Thursday which hopefully would hit around 1.5 in the tank and I'd then have the tester.
So I guess I'm looking for, do you guys think this is velvet? And if so what are my next steps? FW dip both fish, just the clown? Move to QT with the Copper? Thanks in advance for any help.
The below came from live photos and I had to flip through frames to see the specks, they are nearly impossible to see without the camera.
