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Can freshwater dips with velvet clog gills?

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Can freshwater dips with velvet clog gills?

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I have been battling velvet (Amyloodinium ocellatum) in my tank for over three months. You’d think I was an idiot, but I’m pretty much an expert on the parasite by now (I even helped the not-so-expert local PetSmart to identify and rid their system of velvet). I have spent days reading up on your site over the last few months, which has been helpful, despite my lack of success. I rid PM’s 250g tank of velvet, however, I am not having the same luck with my 72. To make a long story short, I lost almost all my fish in two days the first time around, so the tank went fallow for two months and the surviving fish in a QT (with no outbreaks over those two months at all). Upon my re-introduction of a yellow tang, it died overnight from velvet once more. How does velvet survive in a fallow tank for two months? So the 72g was stripped down, all corals were put in a 30g (which are doing great), and

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