Is this Velvet?

[John]

Hmm woke up this morning and my powder blue has what seems to be like a opaque film on him coming off. He's eating and looks okay but what could it be?

 

[marrone]

John

It's looks like a bad case of Ich and the PBT is putting out a lot of slime on it body. If possible get the fish out and into a hopsital tank and start to treat with copper.


Here a good web site of diseases
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/fishdiseases.html

Michael

 

[spykes]

looks like it got any closer pictures? that or it can be a big strong dose of ich

 

[John]

Thanks Michael,

Time to put all the fish into QT for the second time this year...

 

[John]

I tried to take a close up with no avail. I'll try in a little bit once I catch all of them now.

 

[marrone]

It can be hard to tell the different between ich and marine velvet as they have some similar systpoms. Get a good copper and copper kit and try to treat right away. Also I would leave a light on near the tank all day as this will keep the fish active and strong to fight of the ich/velvet.

From what I've seen in the begining of treating for ich if the fish goes to sleep, once the lights are off, the ich tends to take a lot out of the fish making it hard for it to fight off the ich itself. So if you can leave a light on near the tank it will probably be better for the fish.

 

[John]

im going now to get some copper and a sailfert copper kit. Also gonna add some garlic to his meals since he is still eating like a pig