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Thanks Johny think I will take one down to lfs and see what they say, get a second opinion. Then decide, my conscience will be satisfied then!

yeah they have a white dust/film over them and they scratch, breath heavy, sometimes it looks like their skin is peeling off. I did try gyradol just in case it was an infection or bacteria in case i had misdiagnosed but made no difference. I'm religious with weekly water changes as well.

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?

I did think that they maybe natural colours to the festive as were there when i added him however this coincidently was when the flashing started in the tank??! So thought they could be something else due to the timing. Thanks for the advice i'll just have to watch his space for the moment

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.

Thanks for the advice peeps. One thing i'm wary of is how my blue acara may react to higher temp there preferred is 23 deg c i have mine at 26 already. My lfs is over an hour away can i use any other kind of salt i could pick up locally? If not does anyone know a good uk aquarium mail order...

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?

Thanks hubert, flashed torch on them and no dust or copper colour. Parameters still fine. Have noticed one tiny white lump on the sajicas head! Not a spot but more of a white bump?

:(:( 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...