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Unread 02/03/2012, 01:26 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by klobianco View Post
thanks but thats happened in my gf's tanks, trying to help her, couple questions- what is velvet? and yea she had a flame angel, copperband, coral beauty, twp clowns, dispar anthis, bi color angel, naso tang, and a couple others and they all just started dying very rapidly for some reason, thought the cause was the coral beauty bc it had white spots all over it.
Velvet (oodinium) is a fast acting, very contagious & deadly parasite. Its often confused with ich and is a main reason to quarantine new fish. Google "marine velvet" and 'marine ich"; including images, and what you had.


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