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Huugs · 07-01-2005, 01:18 PM

My goldfish I think have velvet. It looks like slime patches on their bodies mainly on the top of the head and also on the tips of the fins and tail. I have also noticed that one of them has a slighlt ragged tail.

My levels are
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 20
pH 8.0
GH 300
KH 200
Phospate 2.5

I have recently just put a few more plants in and also started using and over-dosing with Flourish Excel to help the plants and get rid of the red algae.
Other than that there have been now other changes.

I first noticed this a couple of days ago but it was only small patches and previously had had this and it cleared up. It was about the time I added the new plants did a big water change (40%) and started the Flourish Excel dosing. I dont think the probably is temperature but it tends to be between 23 to 26/27 degrees. At most the difference over the day is 3 degrees. But that is sloly changing in temp and they seem to have been coping fine with that up till now. The fish are acting fine and eating fine and dont seem to have chaned at all except for this slime. Any ideas or suggestions on causes and cures would be very much appreciated.

07-01-2005, 01:18 PM	#1
Huugs Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London UK Age: 23 Posts: 251	Velvet Disease My goldfish I think have velvet. It looks like slime patches on their bodies mainly on the top of the head and also on the tips of the fins and tail. I have also noticed that one of them has a slighlt ragged tail. My levels are Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 20 pH 8.0 GH 300 KH 200 Phospate 2.5 I have recently just put a few more plants in and also started using and over-dosing with Flourish Excel to help the plants and get rid of the red algae. Other than that there have been now other changes. I first noticed this a couple of days ago but it was only small patches and previously had had this and it cleared up. It was about the time I added the new plants did a big water change (40%) and started the Flourish Excel dosing. I dont think the probably is temperature but it tends to be between 23 to 26/27 degrees. At most the difference over the day is 3 degrees. But that is sloly changing in temp and they seem to have been coping fine with that up till now. The fish are acting fine and eating fine and dont seem to have chaned at all except for this slime. Any ideas or suggestions on causes and cures would be very much appreciated. Last edited by Huugs; 07-01-2005 at 04:07 PM.