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I've had velvet in my tank for nearly a whole year, I have three cichlids that i started out with and have not added to the the tank cos of velvet from the second week. I have tried everything to get rid of it, higher temp, salt, protozin, acriflavin, interpet no7, blackouts, huge water changes...

Ok so i got my tank in jan got 6 neons and 3 lovely red crystal shrimp. After 3 weeks they were flicking and rubbing, discovered it was velvet moved over three cystals to a small qt tank so i could treat the tetras in my 40 gal with copper based protozin. The crystals all died after the move...

I'm set to treat my tank that has velvet. How should i add the salt. It's 180 l tank which from what i've seen would need about 9 rounded tablespoons of salt. How much should i do at once 50% and then 10% daily for 5 days or just a small amount each day? Do i need to change water as i add?

Could i gather your thoughts on what these white bits are on festives gills? Ich gill flukes or white spot. There has been flashing in tank thought velvet. These are first physical symptoms though.

What does anyone think the best treatment for velvet maybe? Has anyone successfully treated it. From reading the web it looks pretty grim for my fish. Raising the temp seems pretty undecided upon whether it is best thing to do?

:(:( I have a blue acara that is in with festive and sajica cichlid all around 3 inches. i've noticed the acara rubbing heeavily on my fake plants today and he was'nt that interested in eating this morning he is still moving around the tank though but regularly scratching up the plants...

I'm very much a newbie and recently started a 40 gal cichlid tank picking up a blue acara, sajica(t - bar) and red jewel cichlid last week all beautiful fish but the red jewel has taken over 80% of the tank and is evil sajica has small chunk out of fin and acara can bearly move. spoke to lfs and...