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
