Looking for advice for possible velvet outbreak, not sure what to do in my 125 reef.
A few weeks ago I introduced a sailfin tang into my tank, I always use Dr Tim’s when I put in new fish. 2 days later my porcupine puffer was showing signs of ick. I do not have a hospital tank for a qt at the...
I started a small Nano tank and had a couple fish in it
they all died of velvet
I'm going fishless for 6 weeks
what happens to the reef tank with out fish ?
will it be ok ? with no fish / waste
do i still feed food?
feed the bacteria?
please advise ,this is the first time i deal with velvet...
I can keep telling my story for days, but long story short. Devastation happened. Everything was going well for about a month since I added a dozen of fish together in my 300 gallons. Then one day back in Nov 2022 I had to jump on a plane after I got the news my Father passed away. While I was...
Hi all, last week we noticed signs of ich/ velvet on our mimic tang. He was scratching up against rocks .Unfortunately, that fish recently passed. The tank currently has a clown, 1 purple dottyback, and a pajama cardinal. The clown had ich around 7 years ago when we first set up the tank but...
Good afternoon,
Quick synopsis…mature reef,
65 gal
1.025
Nitrate 5
Phos .8
Alk 9.5
Cal 500
Mg 1470
pH 8.1-8.3
Tank been running for 6 years
Running Modified Moonshiners
1000ml kalk
I’ve had the yellow tang for well over a year. Quite healthy or so I thought. Wife noticed ‘white dust’ on him...
Hey guys I’m here with some sort of somber news, I’d been treating my fish for velvet and they did sadly kick the bucket, there were in a qt bin that had a sponge filter some media to hold bacteria and a heater and finally pvc decorations, I was wondering as the bin of as used for treating...
Hello all I have more of a scientific question of interest, so based upon what I’ve seen from the velvet life cycle it needs a sand or substrate to infect a fish yeah? but it also is found in fish via well it being carried by them so here’s my question, say two fish are in a bare qt system can...