marine velvet

Hello friends, I just want to share my story about battling with ich, marive velvet and bacterial infections on my 120 gallon bare bottom FOWLR tank. A couple weeks ago my fishes contracted these parasites and BI. So I humbly asked this forum for help. People like @Humble fish, @melypr1985 and...

Hi, I'm new to the forum. Excited to bask in the knowledge of experienced reef keepers! I had an outbreak of marine velvet in my display tank. I'm new to the hobby, and as an ignorant newbie thought I could get away with not quarantining. Well, after about 3 weeks of having some fish in the...

Those that have experienced either Marine Velvet or Ich outbreak, did the parasites (at one of its life cycle) visible by bare eyes? Perhaps when they are at Trophonts stage (mature trophozoite)? I'm seeing white micro organism on the wall tank and they move and i don't believe it's Amphipods...

To those that don't have the budget (or time) to set up a QT , do you guys do a quick dip (not bath) to your new fish before putting them in the DT? Stress causes ich and by doing a freshwater dip, aren't we stressing the fish, hence promoting ich? Or am I missing the idea?

The Blue Regal stopped eating and some of the other fish slowed down too. The Regal's activity level also decreased. After the 3rd transfer, I didn't redose anymore CP. I noticed after about 10 hours he started to become more active. Regal's are very weird fishes anyway, so you really need to...