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02/22/2015, 10:11 AM | #1 |
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VELVET infected aquarium.
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i recently lost a clown to velvet. I have one more fish in the tank that shows no signs of the parasite. Can it be that the fish is immune? Are there fish that are immune to velvet and other parasites? |
02/22/2015, 10:55 AM | #2 |
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My fish all have a working immunity to velvet ich and brook. I've seen each affect fish in my tanks (new additions only) but that is more rate and hard to work toward. Long story short yes, but new additions will likely be badly affected and succomb. I had velvet wipe out all of my DT back when k quarantined all additions, (so my fish had no exposure and thus also had no immunity and it wiped everything but one chromis and a Melanarus wrasse.
Halichoeres genus wrasses tend to be more hardy against parasites than other fish. Choice is yours what you should do but most on here would suggest removing the fish and letting the tank go fallow for 72 days while treating the remaining fish with copper or tank transfer method. In your case and being that velvet is far more deadly than ich, I might be in that camp as well. |
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http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2388424
the link will give you the info you need to treat velvet.
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Velvet usually wipes out a tank.
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02/22/2015, 01:57 PM | #7 |
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That is correct. Anecdotally, I have seen the number 5% associated with the number of fish which develop temporary (six month) immunity after surviving a bout of velvet but the literature does not document anything other than a "small number" do. The unfortunate thing is that those that develop immunity are still carriers.
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So my problem now is that I need to get rid of this fish and start a fallow period. Gosh! What a nightmare! |
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Actually I wouldn't set my mind on Velvet (Amyloodinium) alone as the pictures of your clownfish looked like it could also have been Brooklnella.
Both are equally nasty and quick fish killer and I wouldn't take any chances with them. Brook is more of a "bad condition" parasite that usually comes on (clown)fish weakened by transport, hypothermia and bad water quality (they usually come in that combo but every one by themselves will do). Strong and healthy fish might fend it off but I wouldn't want to take that risk. Velvet is even worse as it will likely kill every fish in a tank that it gets in to. I have seen mandarins infected with it and it wasn't a pretty sight how they literally slimed themselves to death. Mandarins are usually able to slime off what ever parasite tries to attach to them but velvet will over time even get them. So I don't think there is such a thing as immunity or even resistance to velvet.
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This is my thought too, why people start 2-4 different threads on the same thing is just mind boggling. Those who are in the disease thread aren't going to give the same advise as those in the Reef Discussion or Reef Fishes thread... Obviously the Disease thread is where the best advise is going to come from
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Thank you everybody for your time!
I will let the goby be until I get a qt/hospital tank setup and go fallow after that. |
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