Hemmdog
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I see That is unfortunate to hear. As soon as my wife gets home we are going to go get a hospital tank, possibly 2. I would go now but of corse I’m having car issues as well. I have to save these guysI’m crossing my fingers for you, but there is definitely a time-bomb aspect to velvet They’ve been holding it off for an impressive amount of time.
Even some of the ones that *look* clean could be heavily infested in the gills. I just want to make sure you are prepared... some might not make it through the dips to even get started on treatment... and some might not recover even after the copper is brought up to level. Sometimes the damage is already too great in the gills, despite our best efforts.
Try not to be too hard on yourself during the process. It’s not easy. I’ve been there, twice actually. And both times I lost nearly all of my fish. The second time, I tried to treat them but it was just too late and I didn’t have the knowledge that I do now (Or R2R for that matter, at the time wetwebmedia was the best resource for fish disease treatment, and if you’ve ever read there.... it’s not always easy to find what you need and the advice is quite dated in some cases)
But, it’s also what made me become so passionate about QT and fish disease treatment... and I likely wouldn’t be here now, if not for those experiences.
I love my abt but I really think it may be to late. I’ve been contemplating euthanizing him. It’s a really tough decision.