velvet

Sorry if this seems like a stupid question but I'm genuinely concerned, so in the past I lost all my fish to either ick or velvet (it was one or the other) so I completely left my tank fishless for a very long time (coral only), but due to a lightning issue all of my coral died (light became too...

Hey, new to the hobby here, tanks about 3 months old, I have a pair of clowns, the female has been pretty aggressive with the male, nipping his fins and such so I separated him in a little isolation box so he could relax for a few days, as I do not have a separate tank, but now the spots I...

I recently had an ich or velvet outbreak in tank of 75 gallons. Most of the fish died. Porcupine puffer is still alive and healthy so is the snowflake eel and inverts 2 shrimp 2 starfish. Is this ich or velvet and how to get rid of it? https://share.icloud.com/photos/0226WHG5rZ7toheudK-e99jVQ

Something that looks like ich/velviet showed up on my clowns yesterday. I’m leaning towards ich because I’ve had them in the dt for a month with no problems and there were quarantined before that. No other fish have been affected yet. Any help would be appreciated. Pictures attached

In July I lost 7 out of 9 fish to velvet. I moved those two fish into a QT and went 46 days fallow. The fallow period was not successful. The tank had been started in April originally and had 2 tester corals, so I decided to break the tank down and bleach it. I originally had some man made rock...

Back in June I noticed I had some sick fish and on 6/22 I had a massive die off and lost 6 of 8 fish. My diamond goby and zebra bar goby never showed any signs of it. I determined the disease to be velvet that killed everyone else. On 7/8 To be safe, I pulled my survivors out and into...

I can’t catch a break yall. The inhabitants of my 150 gal reef tank have all been in QT with copper power for velvet since July 4. Lost an bellus angel, engineer goby, annd two anthias before I figured out what it was and pulled the tank apart. Everyone is doing well now and I haven’t had any...

Hello, I’m hoping someone can. Please help me out with some advice. Friday I picked up a flame angel, and a bunch of invertebrates. The flame angel was said to be in copper and looked perfectly healthy when I got him. He was eating the next day and everything has been normal. I put him in a...

I’m hoping you’ll can help me diagnose what my blue tang has. These are new fish I added a month ago. I know I should have QT them first. But either way I had pulled all my first 2 weeks ago from my DT after my sailfin was showing signs of ich/velvet. I immediate got them into QT and dosed...

Hello i am new to the saltwater hobby i have had my tank for 6 months and i have just noticed today one of my clownfishes dead I am trying to figure out if this is velvet, ich ,flukes, fin rot , or something else. All my water parameters are good i have no aggressive fish

Hello i am new to the saltwater hobby i have had my tank for 6 months and i have just noticed today one of my clownfishes dead I am trying to figure out if this is velvet, ich ,flukes, fin rot , or something else. All my water parameters are good i have no aggressive fish

Hi All, My purple tang and lipstick tang got white spots. However this is my first time with disease on any of my fish so I’m not sure whether this is ich or velvet or something else? It started around week and a half ago. First I’ve turned on UV light and I feel like it helped slightly for a...

Hi All - Long time lurker, first time poster on R2R. I have a pair of clowns, one of them died. I am not sure if its Brook, or Velvet. I am attaching photos. going to throw the rest of the tank in QT, but don't know if I should take the Copper route if its Brook. Please help!!

Hey everyone, Just went 90 days fallow after having velvet. After the 90 days was up I put my Achilles tang in an acclimation box for a few days was all good - has been in tank for 3 weeks no issues. Added a blue hippo, purple and yellow 2 days ago all after 40 days of copper power 2.40+...

I had an ich outbreak in my DT about 26 days ago, and yanked all of my fish out of the tank, moved into multiple QT tanks. I have way more fish than tanks, and some would kill each other, so they are split over 7 QT tanks of different sizes. I consistently treated all of the tanks with Copper...

Ive had this tang for 5 days now. Since the day i got it, it has been doing these 2 things. Along with my other tang and angel but these two not very often. Quite rare to see them doing it now but still happens. I suspected ich or flukes so i started hypo at full 1.009 yesterday evening. They...

Hi, Today, I noticed my male mandarin died. I found him on the bottom of the tank when I woke up. It is a big loose for me, as he was a part of mated pair, which has been spawning several times. On 21.11.2023 I noticed ich breakdown in my tank. I have tried to manage it, and I haven't had any...

Can leaving fish in hypo salinity (1.009) for more than 30 days be harmful to the fish? I have had baby burrfish in hypo salinity for 30 days. One of them died before I reached hypo salinity from either ich or velvet. I currently have them in their own tank because they are too small still to...

The reason I placed this as an emergency is because I really need answers as soon as possible… my girlfriend ordered me a green king tenticle anemone. Very nice gesture, but the overthinking nut job I am can’t pass the thought that maybe it’s carrying a disease. It is from fragbox, and I really...

Hello friends I need an advice. I’m new in all of this reefing stuff so: On Friday, I added a new coral to the tank. On Sunday, I noticed the first signs of velvet on clown fish and I didn’t lnow what it was. by Tuesday morning clown was already dead. Subsequently, I found velvet on other...

Hello all, I am new to reef2reef. I set up a 20g tank a couple of months ago. It has a yellow tail damsel, clownfish and flame hawk fish. They are all about 1.5-2 inches long and get along pretty well. The damsel gets upset when the clownfish goes near his rocks but everyone generally gets...

Please help !! any expert…. I have a 500 gallon tank alot of my fish white spots not sure if its ich or velvet. I had a couple of lost last one i lost was like a week ago, but no more lost …lost in total like 5 fishes in a period of like a 1 month but still alot of fish with white spots not sure...

Tank almost wiped out and not sure if it was Velvet or Ich TLDR at bottom Some context - 2x Clown Fish, Cleaner Shrimp, Yellow Tang, Blue Tang, Royal Gamma, Cherub Angelfish, last one I don't remember look a Blenny or a Jawfish. I recently added the Yellow Tang and a snail that didn't move...

Yesterday I lost a bicolor blenny, and after looking closer at my fish I noticed that my clownfish looks like it may have Brook or Velvet, could someone help me id and have any advice on treatment? His behavior looks ok for now, no itching and swimming around and he’s eating a bit. I hope it’s...

Hey all, PLEASE HELP so I have a 20 gallon long tank and have had a BAD velvet problem. Only one fish surviving. I have dosed with copper but hate adding chemicals to water. Would a UV AA GKM 9watt help eradicate velvet with my copper?? I know this isn’t the greatest UV for parasites, but since...