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Hi all, this is my first post on reef2reef but I have been a lurker for quite some time. Brilliant forum with very knowledgeable members. I am desperately in need of some help with my fishes..
I will try to keep this concise but try to include as much info as possible. About two weeks back I spotted some white spots on my fish. They were hard to see at first under my usual lighting but my otherwise very active anthias suddenly stopped eating so I decided to take a closer look. I saw these white spots on my other fish too.. I thought aha.! This is ick and I started researching possible treatments.
Needless to say, I soon found out that it isn't ick but infact velvet.!!! I ordered some copper power from the states but as I live in the UK, it is yet to arrive. I read all the guidance posts on this forum and others on how to treat fish for velvet and decided to take action asap. I freshwater dipped all my fish and then used cupramine at 0.5ppm ramped up rather quickly over a 24 hour period. I decided against CP as I have wrasses and had an anthias.
Unfortunately my efforts were not entirely successful as I lost my eibli angel, yellow wrasse and female lyretail anthias within 24 hours. Maybe copper sensitive? Or maybe the disease was too far advanced?
My remaining stock, pair of clowns, read head solon fairy wrasse, mccoskers flasher wrasse and magnificent foxface are still alive. The female clown and the magnificent foxface appear the worst hit. Foxface is constantly hiding and hasn't eaten in days, my female clown has slowed down but is still swimming out in the open and eating small amounts.
At this point, do you think it us a wise idea to reduce the copper concentration to 0.4. Is this level still therapeutic against velvet? I have bought a hanna copper checker so can test fairly accurately.
Thanking you all in advance.
I will try to keep this concise but try to include as much info as possible. About two weeks back I spotted some white spots on my fish. They were hard to see at first under my usual lighting but my otherwise very active anthias suddenly stopped eating so I decided to take a closer look. I saw these white spots on my other fish too.. I thought aha.! This is ick and I started researching possible treatments.
Needless to say, I soon found out that it isn't ick but infact velvet.!!! I ordered some copper power from the states but as I live in the UK, it is yet to arrive. I read all the guidance posts on this forum and others on how to treat fish for velvet and decided to take action asap. I freshwater dipped all my fish and then used cupramine at 0.5ppm ramped up rather quickly over a 24 hour period. I decided against CP as I have wrasses and had an anthias.
Unfortunately my efforts were not entirely successful as I lost my eibli angel, yellow wrasse and female lyretail anthias within 24 hours. Maybe copper sensitive? Or maybe the disease was too far advanced?
My remaining stock, pair of clowns, read head solon fairy wrasse, mccoskers flasher wrasse and magnificent foxface are still alive. The female clown and the magnificent foxface appear the worst hit. Foxface is constantly hiding and hasn't eaten in days, my female clown has slowed down but is still swimming out in the open and eating small amounts.
At this point, do you think it us a wise idea to reduce the copper concentration to 0.4. Is this level still therapeutic against velvet? I have bought a hanna copper checker so can test fairly accurately.
Thanking you all in advance.