need help with velvet
Posted: 05 Nov 2005, 21:42
Hiya everyone
You have recently helped me greatly so thought i would ask for advice.
My fish have a bad case of velvet that i have only recently found out what it is (never had problems before so didnt recognise it at first) Anyway i am using waterlife protozin at half the dose as i have puffa fish and knife fish ..cat fish..plec (no scale fish) and the worst hit is the paccos 3 of them are realy bad there eyes are cloudy and they arnt eating. can anyone give any advice on this. The temp is up to about 84. Some of the other fish dont have it and are fine (the knife fish and bandino) should i be doing water changes?..its only been two days and this is day 3 then it says stop the treatment till day 6. Should i do this and how long does it take to clear or should i continue the treatment till it clears?. The pacos skin looks a little better its cleared up but there eyes are worse (cloudy and white)and i dont think they will make it they are hanging around the top of the tank looking realy misserable...they are fairly old and the puffa fish are very young and arnt eating much also. its breaking my heart realy as i love all my fish and want to do the best for them but feel quite worried that i may not be doing the right thing (or contributing to killing them!!! through lack of knowledge). Should i up the dose or will that kill the knife fish who i love and are fine just now..i have a tank about 360 ltrs. . (should I do a water test at the lfs if that helps?) I have lost 4 clown loaches in a week one after the other as they were all flicking!!
If anyone can offer advice would be greatfull thanks
Dawn
3 baby puffa fish
1 plec
3 paccos (about 5 years old)
1 bandino
1 earth eater
1 young parrot fish
1 catfish
1 arfican knife fish
2 black ghost knife fish (young)
You have recently helped me greatly so thought i would ask for advice.
My fish have a bad case of velvet that i have only recently found out what it is (never had problems before so didnt recognise it at first) Anyway i am using waterlife protozin at half the dose as i have puffa fish and knife fish ..cat fish..plec (no scale fish) and the worst hit is the paccos 3 of them are realy bad there eyes are cloudy and they arnt eating. can anyone give any advice on this. The temp is up to about 84. Some of the other fish dont have it and are fine (the knife fish and bandino) should i be doing water changes?..its only been two days and this is day 3 then it says stop the treatment till day 6. Should i do this and how long does it take to clear or should i continue the treatment till it clears?. The pacos skin looks a little better its cleared up but there eyes are worse (cloudy and white)and i dont think they will make it they are hanging around the top of the tank looking realy misserable...they are fairly old and the puffa fish are very young and arnt eating much also. its breaking my heart realy as i love all my fish and want to do the best for them but feel quite worried that i may not be doing the right thing (or contributing to killing them!!! through lack of knowledge). Should i up the dose or will that kill the knife fish who i love and are fine just now..i have a tank about 360 ltrs. . (should I do a water test at the lfs if that helps?) I have lost 4 clown loaches in a week one after the other as they were all flicking!!
If anyone can offer advice would be greatfull thanks
Dawn
3 baby puffa fish
1 plec
3 paccos (about 5 years old)
1 bandino
1 earth eater
1 young parrot fish
1 catfish
1 arfican knife fish
2 black ghost knife fish (young)