Amyloodinium in mixed tank...

[lukestro]

One of my tanks broke out in 'odinium, velvet, and killed all fish within three days. This just happened to be my mixed tank -> reef, inverts, and fish. I had it running perfectly for a long time and then had to fix my diy hood/lights. I had it off the tank for one day and boom, it hit. My only guess is that I already had an infestation but the actinics/20'000k bulbs ma have kept it at bay with some UV.

I still want my mixed tank-it looked good! But, now what! From what I understand these things encyst and stay around for a long long time.

I can't use anything to kill it except maybe trying tons of garlic or this new capsacin idea. I doubt either would touch it, and the thought of putting hot pepper oils in my tank is a little scary, and unproven.

Has anyone had success using a UV sterilizer after a breakout to keep it completely at bay? How about running the water through a hepa filter (.01 microns, something like that). I don't want to nuke the tank. I can still see tons of tiny squigly swimming things under the magnifying glass.

 

[witchdoctor]

I had an outbreak that wiped out all of my fish (eleven of them) except one, a yellow tang, which was the only one to survive and make it to the hospital tank. I kept the tank fish free for about two and a half months and ran a UV sterilizer on it as well. Unfortunately, the UV also killed off all of the microfauna, so I lost both of my calcareous tube worms (coco worms).

I started stocking again, and everything has been fine. Now it's six months later, and things are slowly progressing.

Are you sure that you didn't have any source that may have introduced the velvet? It's pretty lethal, so I sort of doubt that just some UV from your lights would have suppressed it.

 

[platylover]

It may be a blessing that all your fish died. If you keep your tank fish-free during the next 2 months, the Amyloodinium parasite will exhaust it's life cycles and eventually die from lack of a host.