I have an angel that I think has velvet. From what I have seem of the symptoms, he has most of them. I did a salt water dip (about 7 teaspoons/gallon) last night in a separate tank for about 3 minutes to help knock the buggers out of his gills so he wasn't trying to scrape his gills on things anymore. I know that is suppose to strip their slime coating so the meds are more effective at reaching the organisms. And since velvet is a protozoan parasite, I would think that a salt treatment should cause the parasite to shrink and kill it just like it does for ick. I didn't see him scratching after that. He was breathing heavy when I put him back in the water of course, but looked more relaxed this morning. I am also treating the whole tank with a 2 teaspoon/gal. salt treatment and using Quick Cure (malachite green/formalin) at the 1 drop /gallon dosage. I don't have much faith in Quick-cure since it hasn't work for me for ick. I think it breaks down too easily in the tank with organics and whatever and doesn't stay at a high enough dosage for the treatment. Salt has worked way better for me for ick and I am sold on that as a treatment. My question is, can the same salt treatment at about 2 teasp./gallon work to kill Velvet as well? Or, do I need a copper treatment or acriflavine or something else? I have heard that Velvet is a tough one to get of. Does anyone have any experience with treating velvet???
angelfish with velvet--treatment???
- Thread starter jjohns
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Velvet is a tricky one. Usually you want to use a Malachite Green + Formalin treatment to cure the velvet. Salt does not always kill the beast since it is a parasitic algae. I've never personally faced velvet but have read up on it and this is the information I've derived.