Nelliy
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I wanted to get peoples thoughts on this experience of mine. I'm not sure if I just got lucky or this actually did work!
Now before people mention any negative comments I want to say this was a first for me as I never experienced marine velvet, only Ich. This was an experiment I had to undertake in a rush.
My parameters was all good. I have no QT tank and didn't have time or resources to set one up quickly. At first I thought it was Ich then I soon quickly caught on that it was velvet and I was running out of time. I somehow contracted velvet in my reef tank and I am assuming it was from a new addition I added two weeks prior.
I did as much research I could and given the lack of resources I had, I made an executive decision to try something taking in everything I had read. I couldn't find any info the internet of someone doing exactly what I did but I was willing to experiment.
Every single fish in my tank was absolutely covered in velvet and lethargic and I thought there is no way they are going to return to normal. There was little hope and time. I had come to terms that I might loose all my fish or at least some.
I started dosing Hydrogen peroxide at 1ml per 3 gallons every 12 hours. I covered the tank in black cloth to let zero light in and raised the temp by 2 Degrees Celsius.
On day 3 I removed the cloth but still left the light off and started dosing hydrogen peroxide every 24 hours.
The first fish to show signs of getting better were my pair of maroon clowns.
Then all my fish starting showing the good signs. At the end of it all they were all happy and swimming around and only my niger triger had signs of velvet on his body, however it was heavily improved to what it was when I started.
I did loose one fish and that was my bird nose wrasse.
I know the velvet is probably still current in the tank and may come back and I'm not in the safe zone yet.
I just wanted to see what other peoples thoughts were regarding this. I feel like I just got lucky as I know velvet can kill in a matter of days.
I should mention in regards to lack of resources. I am in a heavy lockdown area, no stores I could go to for resources and everything online would of taken too long to deliver. I had to work with what I had on hand.
Now before people mention any negative comments I want to say this was a first for me as I never experienced marine velvet, only Ich. This was an experiment I had to undertake in a rush.
My parameters was all good. I have no QT tank and didn't have time or resources to set one up quickly. At first I thought it was Ich then I soon quickly caught on that it was velvet and I was running out of time. I somehow contracted velvet in my reef tank and I am assuming it was from a new addition I added two weeks prior.
I did as much research I could and given the lack of resources I had, I made an executive decision to try something taking in everything I had read. I couldn't find any info the internet of someone doing exactly what I did but I was willing to experiment.
Every single fish in my tank was absolutely covered in velvet and lethargic and I thought there is no way they are going to return to normal. There was little hope and time. I had come to terms that I might loose all my fish or at least some.
I started dosing Hydrogen peroxide at 1ml per 3 gallons every 12 hours. I covered the tank in black cloth to let zero light in and raised the temp by 2 Degrees Celsius.
On day 3 I removed the cloth but still left the light off and started dosing hydrogen peroxide every 24 hours.
The first fish to show signs of getting better were my pair of maroon clowns.
Then all my fish starting showing the good signs. At the end of it all they were all happy and swimming around and only my niger triger had signs of velvet on his body, however it was heavily improved to what it was when I started.
I did loose one fish and that was my bird nose wrasse.
I know the velvet is probably still current in the tank and may come back and I'm not in the safe zone yet.
I just wanted to see what other peoples thoughts were regarding this. I feel like I just got lucky as I know velvet can kill in a matter of days.
I should mention in regards to lack of resources. I am in a heavy lockdown area, no stores I could go to for resources and everything online would of taken too long to deliver. I had to work with what I had on hand.
