Marine Ich? Velvet? fest - Need HELP

[CD]

Here is some good info on Velvet
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/amylloodiniumart.htm

Thanks for the info.
WWM is one of the first places we try to find information when we have a problem- besides MAAST of course. 8)
I remember having some tank problem 3-4 years ago and sent an email with my problem. Bob Fenner himself responded within 15-20 minutes.

We appreciate your input- thanks.

Chris

[CD]

Thank you, Steve :cry

I just hope we can save a few of our fish babies. This is a horrid experience, but a lesson I will never forget....
My one hope is that everyone here that is not putting every fish they buy in QT, will do so from now on. Go look at your beautiful fishies swimming around in your tanks...think about how you would feel if they were systematically taken from you one by one - stricken by this most horrible/virilent disease...and remember that EVERY time you buy a fish...a 30 day QT is a MUST. If you can't afford a QT tank, or simply do not have room for it, find a LFS or a friend that can do it for you.

I'm fairly positive the Atlantic Blue Tang was the carrier. The sad part, is that she was an impulse buy...I'd never seen one in a LFS before, and had always wanted one (she was sooo beautiful). Our QT tank was set up and running, but the filtration media was fairly new. When we brought her home, she was put in the QT tank, but after about a week or so, the system started going through a heavy cycle - probably because she was a good sized fish with a lg. bioload...she broke out in some ich spots (not bad), so we felt she would be better off in the display rather than in a QT going through a cycle. We *should have* just done daily water changes, and hoped for the best in the QT...but we didn't. She actually looked really good for awhile...eating, playing. Now she is gone, the green mandarin is gone, one of my clowns is gone, the remaining clown is probably not going to make it, and my beautiful Hippo is getting worse. My intent is not to bum anybody out, but to save as many people as I can from going through this heartache. PLEASE, people...QT each and every fish that goes into your tanks, no matter HOW reputible the LFS or friend is that you get it from!

Wendy

[CD]

OK- just an update on what's going on with this fiasco.
Fish death toll is 4. Lost the ABT, mandarin, 1 clown, and the blue assessor within 3 days of each other.
No losses now in over a week.
All the fish now look fine (for the last 7 days) and everyone is acting and eating normally. All of the big fish made it and our tiny Randall's goby and firefish never looked sick. Thankfully, the clown that we didn't lose was the same clown that made it through the 3 month Brooklynella incident- he was covered with what looked like velvet but it is totally gone now.

Wendy and I are now beginning to wonder if we actually had a velvet outbreak. Is it possible that the Atlantic blue got so sick that it caused a fluctuation in parameters enough to stress all of the other smaller fish that didn't make it?
Is it possible that an extreme case of ich could cause what appears to be velvet?
All the fish are out swimming around and are 100% free of ich or any other noticeable problems.
The hippo started showing signs of possible flukes (cloudy eyes) but that is gone as well.
Oddly enough, the remaining fish look better than usual.
We are very happy that we didn't lose all of our fish but are now left wondering exactly what took place in our tank.

Chris

[Ed]

Don't have the answers you're looking for, but very glad to hear things are looking up.

[CD]

Thanks Ed.
We are very pleased that this problem appears to be over.
We will just need to keep an eye out for any possible relapse.

Chris

[NaCl_H2O]

Very sorry about your losses, but it is OUTSTANDING that it didn't go the direction you feared. Glad to hear the majority survived and are happy - esp. that little Hippo you watched from behind the pillow ;)

Can't offer much to the what happened question, maybe just healthier fish were able to fight it off better?

[CD]

Thanks Steve.
It certainly could have been a lot worse.
All of our long standing members in the tank, the fish we have had time to get REALLY attached to, made it through the ordeal. Wish they all could've made it though.

Chris

[Polkster13]

Without doing an autopsy on one of the dead fish you will probably never know what the exact cause of death was. You did learn that quarantine procedures must be followed and luckly you didn't lose everything. Hopefully you will have the new tank up soon (which will have three times the water capacity) and as Gary likes to say, "The solution to pollution is dilution."

See Gary, we do learn from your posts! 8)