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Originally Posted by ocellaris123
I also thought of the same thing. People always say that ich as wiped out their entire system in a few days, but I have never had that happen when I dealt with ich. The only time I experienced a total fish stock loss was with velvet, and the velvet exterminated all fish life within 48 hours. Velvet kills fast ime, while ich does not.
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Except (according to
http://americanaquariumproducts.com/Oodinium.html) marine oodinium doesn't
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the marine variety (Amyloodinium Ocellatum) does not have chloroplasts to produce nutrients (via chlorophyll and light), thus Marine Oodinium does not take on the appearance of Velvet
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So if we call it velvet, people are not going to come up with THAT diagnoses, and they'll call it ich.