Velvet in reef

[skooby]

For about 3 weeks , I have watched my reef, thinking I had a case of Ich. I now believe it is velvet. My dominos are acting really strange, there color is faded during the daytime to allmost white. They are very darty and seem to be breathing rapidly. I wanted to wait this ich thing out but I believe now I have to treat for VELVET. I cant get them out of my reef, and I would like to know what I can treat them with? Never had either disease, so I am up in arms about it all.

 

[skooby]

Well the parameters are good. 1.023 sal. 0 nit, 0 am, 8.2 Ph, 430 cal. kh gh are good. I do 10 gal water changes every month. The tank is almost 1 year old. I bought a yellow tang. I QT it for 4 weeks, and then put it in master tank. After about 1 week the darn thing got stuck under a rock and died. Two days later i noticed white salt spots on 1 domino and 1 perc clown. Did water change, started feeding garlic soaked food, spots seemed to disapear. Now the dominos are looking really faded, darting, just not acting right. Looking at the fish it allmost looks like maybe fuzz or real slight fin rot, sometimes the salt like spots are there, they dont look right. I have a reef and it would be impossible to get these fish out and I want to do something before I loose them if I can

 

[skooby]

Also I forgot to say, The eyes are cloudy on the dominos.

 

[beth]

Its not likely that the tang got stuck under a rock and died. What likely happened is that it had ich and it went unnoticed. It probably hid under the rock and died. Tangs can succumb quickly to ich. With a solid yellow fish, this would not be unheard of because the light solid color of the fish conceals the ich speaks. If you don't use a magnifying glass already, get one and use it, especially when fish are in QT.
There is no real effective treatment for ich in a reef tank. In tank, you are already doing what you can do---which is garlic feedings. As ich is highly contagious, now all your fish have been exposed. Any viable treatment will have to occur in a hospital tank. If you absolutely can not remove the fish, continue with the garlic feedings and hope for the best [but be prepared for the worse].
Sorry.
BTW: I saw some mushrooms this week that are in a tank that had been treated with one of the so-called "reef safe" medications---the mushrooms had lost all color and were translucent. Was a pretty pathetic site. So, just in case you're tempted to use a "reef safe" product, keep in mind that there could well be some unwanted ramifications to your inverts.