How are my pods surviving hypo?
- Thread starter GigaFish
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Gigafish,
"hyposalinity" is a sliding scale, it can have different values for different people. What salinity (or specific gravity) are you at now? Also, did somebody tell you that hypo would kill your pods? It was a treatment designed to cure Cryptocaryon, and anything else is a side effect. I've never noticed a specific decline in pods during hypo, but then again, I wasn't really looking for it(grin). You may end up just seeing a population shift from one group of species to another.
Jay
"hyposalinity" is a sliding scale, it can have different values for different people. What salinity (or specific gravity) are you at now? Also, did somebody tell you that hypo would kill your pods? It was a treatment designed to cure Cryptocaryon, and anything else is a side effect. I've never noticed a specific decline in pods during hypo, but then again, I wasn't really looking for it(grin). You may end up just seeing a population shift from one group of species to another.
Jay
pescadero
In Memoriam
i've never watched "pods" either, but i've seen other inverts like hermits tolerate weeks at 1.010.
WRT tolerating changes in salinity, not all inverts are created equal. some inverts seem to be pretty good osmoregulators in that they can tolerate a marked salinity change for an extended period of time. osmoconformers like anenomies, on the other hand, don't tolerate it at all.
WRT tolerating changes in salinity, not all inverts are created equal. some inverts seem to be pretty good osmoregulators in that they can tolerate a marked salinity change for an extended period of time. osmoconformers like anenomies, on the other hand, don't tolerate it at all.
paulamrein
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I think it's not really ever talked about, is because most people (I wish all) treat in a QT. And by definition is void of anything that pods could hitchhike onto. So, I don't think it's probably something out of the ordinary, outside of the fact that it's in the main system.
GigaFish
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My salinity is at 1.009. I was told that all inverts would die under hypo, which is why I assumed pods would die too. So my hypo has been in effect for over a week now, and I have seen the ich dissappear and then come back. This is normal? Is that why they suggest hypo for 4 or more weeks because it doesn't always die off right away?
paulamrein
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It shouldn't come back. What are you measuring your salinity with? There is a good chance that it's either that your salinity is still too high, which would explain the pods living, (not for sure whether they will die in hypo or not.) and why ich is coming back. Or and more likely, it's not ich and some other treatment may be required. First, and foremost. Make sure your salinity is really what it says it is, should be measured with a refractometer. And another thing I just thought of beings though there is rock, and sand in your tank, there is a chance that salinity is different in the holes and crevices of the rock rendering treatment ineffective.
paulamrein
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well, it could be that the ich was always there, just in a different spot and you didn't see it. OR it's not ich at all, and you may need to reqroup and consider a different plan.
paulamrein
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DONT COPPER THE DISPLAY!!!!! It's one thing if you insist on doing hypo in the display, but never medicate your display tank.
Gwynhidwy
Meat Popsicle
I think you have three possibilities here. One, your refractometer is not reading correctly, check that first. Two, your fish do not have ich, but rather another disease with similar symptoms. Or three, your fish have a hyposaline tolerant variant of Cryptocaryon irritans. If two or three is the answer you will have to treat your fish with another method as hyposalinity will not help.
paulamrein
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That is why I mentioned copper. If there is still parasites on the fish, hypo isn't cutting it.
