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So I know a lot of people are going to say that is not possible, but I am 99% sure my tank has velvet...AGAIN. I made the same mistake of not QT'ing, thought divers den would be safe, but of course I got burned...again.
This strain of velvet does not seem to be as bad as the last strain I had, the last one killed fish in a matter of a day or two. Here's what I know: I have done two, 3 dose rounds of prazipro when I thought it was flukes, fish are still flashing, scratching. My butterflyfish has white dots all over him including his eyes, foxface has a few white dots every few days, no other fish showing physical dots but all are scratching/flashing.
My question is, similar to ich, does a velvet strain ever die out? My fish are all still eating and seem to be tolerating the disease somehow, perhaps it is because they were all exposed to the last much more deadly strain and survived. I solved this problem last time by dosing chloroquine phosphate into my display, basically had a tank crash lost all my inverts, etc, but velvet was cured.
I don't believe this is ich because the dots are way too small and widespread on my butterflyfish. My tank is 160g with 170lbs of rock, hence why I can't fathom trying to catch my fish and why I just dosed the tank last time.
This strain of velvet does not seem to be as bad as the last strain I had, the last one killed fish in a matter of a day or two. Here's what I know: I have done two, 3 dose rounds of prazipro when I thought it was flukes, fish are still flashing, scratching. My butterflyfish has white dots all over him including his eyes, foxface has a few white dots every few days, no other fish showing physical dots but all are scratching/flashing.
My question is, similar to ich, does a velvet strain ever die out? My fish are all still eating and seem to be tolerating the disease somehow, perhaps it is because they were all exposed to the last much more deadly strain and survived. I solved this problem last time by dosing chloroquine phosphate into my display, basically had a tank crash lost all my inverts, etc, but velvet was cured.
I don't believe this is ich because the dots are way too small and widespread on my butterflyfish. My tank is 160g with 170lbs of rock, hence why I can't fathom trying to catch my fish and why I just dosed the tank last time.