What should i do now?

[44santababy]

I had a velvet outbreak in my tank that was devasting to my tanks inhibitants and me All my fish died except my six line wrasse and bangaii cardinal. Not sure how these fish survived? I lost my beloved puffer, yellow tang, orange spotted blenny, longnose hawkfish, mystery wrasse, uspi foxface, bi-color dottyback, my two black/white clowns, maroon clown, yellow assessor. Just horrible. My eel seems uneffected (thank God) My question is what do i do now? I want to go fallow for two months but have those two remaining fish and my eel in the display tank. What is the route to take in my situation? I recently just moved the entire tank to a new location and ever since than everyhting went downhill FAST. I just bought a QT setup and in the process of setting it up so this never happens again. Thanks for any help...

 

[skene]

are you sure you had a velvet outbreak and not a cycle?
When you moved did you use the same sand? If you did you probably ended up creating a bloom of aerobic bacteria releasing from disturbing the sand bed... That can also instantaneously kill fish.

That is also a very likely scenario.

 

[mbg75]

Sorry for your losses. I too had a run of velvet 2 yrs ago. Unlike ich, there is no living with velvet. It only takes one outbreak to devastate your livestock.

The tank must be fallow for 8-10 weeks. Anything short of that and it might come back. I initially did 6 weeks and it wasn't gone.

All fish need to be qt'd. 2 weeks in cupramine at .5-.6 level will clear them of any velvet and ich. Cupramine can only be accurately tested with Seachem copper test.

All my new fish go 2 weeks in cupramine before goin in to DT.

Problem with starting a new qt is the tank going thru a cycle. I place NEW filter sponges between the sump baffles of my tank. This seeds them with bacteria for when I start up my qt. When I'm done adding fish, I toss the filter sponge and break down the qt. I always have a sponge ready to go.

Remember, after going through all this, anything you add thats not qt'd can carry it back in. Especially rock.

 

[44santababy]

hey skene, i did reuse the same sand. My fish all were covered in white spots with their skin peeling off. What do i do now? Just let the tank sit for two months with the suriving fish and eel?

 

[mbg75]

To run fallow. All fish have to come out.

 

[Dimitrios91]

What does velvet even look like ? I often hear the name but never really understood what it was or how it looks. When Sandy hit, my tank was doomed, my sand was only two weeks old, so I rinsed it completely out again and restarted the reef with it. A lot died in there, so it's been a battle since trying to get everything back to normal, which it is finally coming around. I think it was due to the LR suffering the 36 degree hit for 14 days.

 

[mbg75]

It looks like a white or gold dusting on the fish. Like a really bad case of ich. Most of the time, once you see it, fish die within days.

 

[Dimitrios91]

It looks like a white or gold dusting on the fish. Like a really bad case of ich. Most of the time, once you see it, fish die within days.

Okay good to know, I've been lucky so far then. But now I know what to look for in the LFS etc., thanks for the info, appreciated