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So first and foremost, this is still early in the testing phase. Also this will not be widley accepted by many. And a big warning, I do not reccomend nor endorse anyone attempting this just yet.
Hope someday this works and becomes a sticky =)
So next up. The honorable mentions, I would also like these, and everyone with positive and/or negative feed back to please interject! I am a big boy and can handle it....
@twilliard @Humblefish @melypr1985 @4FordFamily @FL_Reefer others as well, sorry if you wern't added
This journey started with Twillard, whom was battling the good fight, dinos. A plague that has taken so many fellow reefers, me as well. Through many trials and errors he found something that worked. Some it did not quite work so well for. For me a cure, and this left me to wonder, thanks to humble and mel, and all the research they have led me too in Marine Velvet. Most of us have faced this devilish disease.
I have learned that velvet is a form of dino. If you wish to know common cures you will find much info from humble and mel. A big one, fallow. But some of us have a terrible time getting fish out of a display tank. Most of the time we are too late.
No before I go any further, I fully support you to QUARANTINE FIRST.
Eh, yeah it is totally a wise decision.
I however was not so smart. And after several deaths, And 2 immune fish I found myself in a bad place. 2 fish that wont die and are impossible to catch in a full reef 90gallon aquarium. Can't fallow, can't treat the host fish. So what do I do? Nothing, I assumed I was stuck with the lonley clown and blue damsel forever.
So knowing Velvet is a form of dino, and knowing of a fairly invasive but promising cure I decide its time to add some fish, first another clown. Hardy. 2 weeks later, a blue hippo. Not so hardy. Now it has been a little over a week for the tang, and three weeks for the clown and guess what? Yep, no signs, no spots....nothing but happy healthy fish
Yes it is early to say for sure. As I said early in the testing phase. But things look promising.
Now some of you know where this is going. For the others, and I am preparing my self to duck. I know things will be thrown.
Bleach
There, I said it. The stuff you use to make your toilet tollerable, ruins your clothes.... All things that should scare you from using it in your aquarium. So do not use it...just yet. Let me save the world, or ruin my aquarium first. @twilliard has had some unfortunate things happen. And some good as well.
If this works, he was the pioneer!
So what am I dosing? Well all bleach has a potencey. Liquid bleach ranges from 5 to 12 percent... so, much maths later we came to a dose rate of .003 divided by bleach percentage x how many gallons....to give you ml per gallon....so for 6 percent bleach, .003 divided by .06 x 100gallons gave me my dose....the math is...unimportant now however as....yep, still testing. 3 weeks straight of dosing now and no ill effects. 5ml of bleach twice a day.
But consider the possibilities. A possible reef safe cure for velvet. And who knows what other diseases we face might come from this IF IT WORKS! and thats a big of. I am skeptical but optimistic.
Much updates to come, and may the pitchforks and fires commence...and for the end of the beginning of this journey how bout a pic of some happy not dying fish living in a tank recently wrecked by velvet
Hope someday this works and becomes a sticky =)
So next up. The honorable mentions, I would also like these, and everyone with positive and/or negative feed back to please interject! I am a big boy and can handle it....
@twilliard @Humblefish @melypr1985 @4FordFamily @FL_Reefer others as well, sorry if you wern't added
This journey started with Twillard, whom was battling the good fight, dinos. A plague that has taken so many fellow reefers, me as well. Through many trials and errors he found something that worked. Some it did not quite work so well for. For me a cure, and this left me to wonder, thanks to humble and mel, and all the research they have led me too in Marine Velvet. Most of us have faced this devilish disease.
I have learned that velvet is a form of dino. If you wish to know common cures you will find much info from humble and mel. A big one, fallow. But some of us have a terrible time getting fish out of a display tank. Most of the time we are too late.
No before I go any further, I fully support you to QUARANTINE FIRST.
Eh, yeah it is totally a wise decision.
I however was not so smart. And after several deaths, And 2 immune fish I found myself in a bad place. 2 fish that wont die and are impossible to catch in a full reef 90gallon aquarium. Can't fallow, can't treat the host fish. So what do I do? Nothing, I assumed I was stuck with the lonley clown and blue damsel forever.
So knowing Velvet is a form of dino, and knowing of a fairly invasive but promising cure I decide its time to add some fish, first another clown. Hardy. 2 weeks later, a blue hippo. Not so hardy. Now it has been a little over a week for the tang, and three weeks for the clown and guess what? Yep, no signs, no spots....nothing but happy healthy fish
Yes it is early to say for sure. As I said early in the testing phase. But things look promising.
Now some of you know where this is going. For the others, and I am preparing my self to duck. I know things will be thrown.
Bleach
There, I said it. The stuff you use to make your toilet tollerable, ruins your clothes.... All things that should scare you from using it in your aquarium. So do not use it...just yet. Let me save the world, or ruin my aquarium first. @twilliard has had some unfortunate things happen. And some good as well.
If this works, he was the pioneer!
So what am I dosing? Well all bleach has a potencey. Liquid bleach ranges from 5 to 12 percent... so, much maths later we came to a dose rate of .003 divided by bleach percentage x how many gallons....to give you ml per gallon....so for 6 percent bleach, .003 divided by .06 x 100gallons gave me my dose....the math is...unimportant now however as....yep, still testing. 3 weeks straight of dosing now and no ill effects. 5ml of bleach twice a day.
But consider the possibilities. A possible reef safe cure for velvet. And who knows what other diseases we face might come from this IF IT WORKS! and thats a big of. I am skeptical but optimistic.
Much updates to come, and may the pitchforks and fires commence...and for the end of the beginning of this journey how bout a pic of some happy not dying fish living in a tank recently wrecked by velvet
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