velvet

Personally, I've not had the experience of my fish suffering from velvet. I was flipping thru Dr Goldstein's Bettas: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual and read that a healthy adult fish can often withstand even a heavy velvet infection "for weeks" (he didn't mention how many).

He recommends that adult fish "...be treated daily with copper sulfate solution (follow package directions) in a quarantine jar, medication and salt added (two teaspoons of marine salt per gallon) and the water changed and the jar cleaned daily."
 
Maybe your salt solution is not heavy enough. The salt alone should kill the Velvet. Using Aquarisol too should take care of it. I've never had it..thankfully.. But I've read from those who did. They seemed to say 2 weeks. The salt dosage D Chia posted should be right for Velvet. Good luck with it. Warmer room is probably the key here. It speeds up the cycle of the velvet, so the meds can do their work. I've also heard that lowering the light helps. The reptile heating pads work great for this type of thing. They are a bit expensive, but worth it in the long run.
 
my little girl from that post died :-(

but i did have another male which got velvet.

i did water changes morning and night and used protozen by water life

i did this for about a week an a half and now he is just fine.

hes back too his old self.


Now i know what do do it was pretty simple to treat.



goodluck :thumbs:
 

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