Velvet or what?????

[carlinsa]

i have a 29 gallon tank and it seems to have ich or velvet. my little clown trigger is looking kinda bad. he still eats like a champ and swims like a mad man :D but his body has this covering on it like it is ich or velvel. how can i get rid of it. someone said that is i drop the salinity to like 1.010 or so it will get rid of it. i am just looking for some confrimation on this or what is the best thing to do. in case someone asks all my levels are good. ammonia nitrate and nirtite. are all where they need to be.

[alton]

Are you feeding Garlic? Is the temp. below 80? I don't like the idea of dropping the salinity, it has never worked for me. Is anything else in the tank with him?

[carlinsa]

temp is about 82 and yeah there are a few other fish with him. there is a niger trigger. regal tang, bragon goby, midas blenny

[Dozer]

Imo, see if you can get a hold of Richard at CB Pets. I would start there. He knows a ton about this. You can also figure out how to read some of his previous posts where he talks about the subject.

[CD]

Identifying the malady is going to be the first step...is there any way you could post a pic? :pics

Also, please excuse the comment, as it is not meant to be a dig at you, but don't you think there is a possibility that there are territory issues in that tank? Five fish, two of which are triggers, one potentially large tang, a goby (I'm thinking you were referring to "dragon" and not "bragon") which has the potential of reaching 15" easily and has been known to hit 24", and a blenny are most likely having problems finding their own space in a 29G tank. I'm sure you know stress lowers the resistance to illness...just a thought. ;)

W.

[z28pwr]

Sounds just like what I had, I think your best option is to treat it with Seachem Cupramine.
You can go the all natural way but it's not as effective, although it may work considering triggers are pretty strong fish.

I would PM Richard though, since he has alot more experience. I just lost a whole bunch of fish because of that since I couldn't treat the tank.

[wtrujillo]

if its velvet i don't think the cupramine will help. I'm not sure anything will help for that matter.

[pilot_bell777]

IMO only.....gona step on some toes here....sorry in advance.

I had one bad ICH ourbreak when I introduced my powder blue (imagine that, LOL) and it almost wiped out my entire stock.
I tried the hyposalinity and raising the temp thing and it didn't work for me. I also tried some checmical that the pet store sold me, no good. The next Ich outbreak that I got was after I had gotten into corals and some of my corals could not handle the hyposalinity or the rise in temp, so I then tried a REEF SAFE Ich chemical, same results as the other pet store chemical, no good. The only thing that I found that worked like a champ for me was a UV Sterilizer.

I know a lot of people are against them and a lot of people are for them but I kept one on my tank and will from now on and would only run it when needed. I never left it running for extended periods of time but it always did the trick.

I even tried to remove all creatures....let the tank sit for the entire life cycle of the ich, treated the creatures in another tank with Copper. I even waited an extra week and then put the creatures back in the display tank, got it again. I'm BIG on QTing my new fish for weeks too.

I didn't have it like all the time and would get small outbreaks here and there, kick on the UV, it would be gone and wouldn't see it again for months. I usually noticed it when I was slipping a little on maintenance and my purple tang was always the first to show it. Never saw it on my other fish. Kick in the UV, boom it was gone in a day or two and all was good. I always feed garlic and vit enriched meals to my creatures. It wasn't that bad. I read an article that said that all tanks have ich in them and getting COMPLETELY rid of it is impossible; it is just a matter of learning to control it and keeping it at bay.

Just my 3 cents!

[schoeplein]

Heh, I've had my UV on constantly for almost 6 months now.. about time to replace the bulb. All I have to say is I haven't seen the slightly inkling of disease, parasite, or cyano.... now I'm wondering why that is.