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So who knows of a surefire way to get rid of velvet for once and for all? I apparently have some hidden source that I have not ratted out despite treating the fish, tossing about $200 worth of tanks and supplies, and sterilizing everything I kept in hot water and bleach. I now have velvet in my betta fry tank and that's like...that worst possible scenario for me. I've bred that pair before and they were fine, the older fry are fine, but now the baby fry and the two adults have velvet and I have absolutely no idea where it could have come from other than the tank itself, which has never had velvet sooo...

'Bout ready to tear my hair out and just quit this altogether. So tired of this popping up again and again.
 
Dinogrrl said:
So who knows of a surefire way to get rid of velvet for once and for all? I apparently have some hidden source that I have not ratted out despite treating the fish, tossing about $200 worth of tanks and supplies, and sterilizing everything I kept in hot water and bleach. I now have velvet in my betta fry tank and that's like...that worst possible scenario for me. I've bred that pair before and they were fine, the older fry are fine, but now the baby fry and the two adults have velvet and I have absolutely no idea where it could have come from other than the tank itself, which has never had velvet sooo...

'Bout ready to tear my hair out and just quit this altogether. So tired of this popping up again and again.
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Never dealt with it personally. Do you do water changes and heat the tank? I've always just used those tablets or blue drops for most external diseases. What have you tried using?

They say most fish carry stuff or it's in the tanks, but things don't get out of control until the fish are stressed.
 
@oldhenlikesdogs Yes, I do regular water changes (weekly) and all the tanks are heated. I use the 'increase heat, put the tank in total darkness' method for velvet, with added salt and Bettafix. It does work, the fish recover within a week and never get it again. But now I don't know if they're carriers or not. Once I see any fish with signs of velvet I immediately start treatment, and I am so so careful not to cross-contaminate but somewhere I'm obviously slipping up. I feel like I just need to nuke every tank I have with treatment all at the same time. I may have to break down and try medicine tablets or something. I generally try to stay away from chemicals on general principal but I'm at that point now where I'm willing to give it a shot.

I"m just not sure what's changed in the last year that this has happened. I'd never had a fish with velvet before, ever, and my fishkeeping methods basically haven't changed so I'm not sure why I keep having this crop up now.
 
Dinogrrl said:
@oldhenlikesdogs Yes, I do regular water changes (weekly) and all the tanks are heated. I use the 'increase heat, put the tank in total darkness' method for velvet, with added salt and Bettafix. It does work, the fish recover within a week and never get it again. But now I don't know if they're carriers or not. Once I see any fish with signs of velvet I immediately start treatment, and I am so so careful not to cross-contaminate but somewhere I'm obviously slipping up. I feel like I just need to nuke every tank I have with treatment all at the same time. I may have to break down and try medicine tablets or something. I generally try to stay away from chemicals on general principal but I'm at that point now where I'm willing to give it a shot.

I"m just not sure what's changed in the last year that this has happened. I'd never had a fish with velvet before, ever, and my fishkeeping methods basically haven't changed so I'm not sure why I keep having this crop up now.
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Do you use the same equipment to do water changes on every tank? I've spread stuff around that way. Sometimes fish can be immune to stuff but are carriers. I once quarantined some goldfish for over two months, using separate equipment for water changes. When I finally just used my usual equipment all the rest of my tanks got a fungal infection which obviously came from those goldfish.

I'm not sure how to identify a carrier. I don't like chemicals either, but sometimes you gotta use them, or give up.
 
I have several sets of equipment that I use for different sets of fish (one for the big tropical tank, one for the small tropical quarantine tank, one for the older betta fry, one for the younger, and one for the adult bettas). And I've started periodically just tossing the equipment and getting new stuff. I even handle all the tropical stuff in one bathroom and all the betta stuff in another. Thus far I haven't had anything get transmitted between the tropical and betta tanks.

I'm pretty sure shared equipment is how the velvet outbreak happened last time in my adult bettas. I got lazy and didn't clean stuff as well as I should have. I'm more careful about it now but that doesn't mean I'm perfect by any means. I just have no idea where this recent one came from, other than something in that specific tank, even though it never had contact with velvet from the last outbreak (that I'm aware of).

Well I do have errands to run today, guess I'll add the pet store to the list.
 

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