velvet

i've got two fish suffering from clamped/closed fins,


its fins are shut tightly together and they stay at the bottom of the tank most of the time. wonder what i can do to help?





loooking at the other symptoms and checking online i think it is suffering from velvet. what can i do to help? how to cure?

water change daily using age water at least 30%. add salts...

[Raptor22]

Originally Posted by iampenguin

i've got two fish suffering from clamped/closed fins,


its fins are shut tightly together and they stay at the bottom of the tank most of the time. wonder what i can do to help?





loooking at the other symptoms and checking online i think it is suffering from velvet. what can i do to help? how to cure?

Does your fish have any shades of gold over its body, does it scratch itself on any objects? How long have they been behaving like that?

My african knife suffered from velvet before its whole body was practically covered with "gold dust", so to treat do a traditional aquarium salt treatment as you would with ich. Velvet is harder to cure than ich so you would have to quarantine it for a longer period of time. Treatment is best sought in a dimly lit area. Other than that maintain pristine water quality. The treatment took about 2 weeks before it fully recovered.

Alternatively, you may want to buy the correct medication to treat your fish. API works well.

The best med and most effective for Velvet is Copper Sulphate. I'll recommends that you go for Aquari-Sol from Aquarium Product (the same brand as Genesis). Dose accordingly to dosage. Perform 50% water change on every other day and continue treatment for 10 days to ensure 100% eradication. Cysts of Velvet is bullet proof so no med will kill it and it takes about 4-5 days at >28 degrees to hatch.

ty everyone for helping. i did a 40% water change and went to y618 to ask for possible solutions, the uncle there recommend me a solution called Velvet Control. got it and trying now. hope it works :/

Every 2 day,water change 30% using age water n put heater 32"

[fishyfishy]

change ur filter, change 50% of water 1st time then follow by regular water change.

thank you everyone for all your responses, really appreciate it. one fish died already. hope it doesnt continue.. ):


am following what the bros on this forum said, i did 40% water change, heater i set to 32", and i just put an accurate dosage of velvet control yesterday. still like that. cant be helped.