How Low Can You Go? Hypo Question

[fishfreak2009]

The title says it all. How low can you go? I currently have a bicolor angel in quarantine who has a mild case of ich. This has been going on over a month in a 40 gallon quarantine at a specific gravity of 1.008. As of tonight I dropped the specific gravity to 1.006. Is it safe to go lower than that if a month at 1.006 doesn't clear it up? I'm hesitant to use cupramine because even slowly ramping the dosage up, I've had pretty poor results when it comes to dwarf angels and cupramine.

 

[Chriss614]

The title says it all. How low can you go? I currently have a bicolor angel in quarantine who has a mild case of ich. This has been going on over a month in a 40 gallon quarantine at a specific gravity of 1.008. As of tonight I dropped the specific gravity to 1.006. Is it safe to go lower than that if a month at 1.006 doesn't clear it up? I'm hesitant to use cupramine because even slowly ramping the dosage up, I've had pretty poor results when it comes to dwarf angels and cupramine.

You could try CP. I am using it right now on my fish after hearing very positive things and it seems to be doing the job.

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[Dmorty217]

The title says it all. How low can you go? I currently have a bicolor angel in quarantine who has a mild case of ich. This has been going on over a month in a 40 gallon quarantine at a specific gravity of 1.008. As of tonight I dropped the specific gravity to 1.006. Is it safe to go lower than that if a month at 1.006 doesn't clear it up? I'm hesitant to use cupramine because even slowly ramping the dosage up, I've had pretty poor results when it comes to dwarf angels and cupramine.

your refractometer needs calibrated, 1.008 is hypo and any lower will harm fish. If the refractometer is spot on then you have hypo resistant ich and need to use meds.

 

[fishfreak2009]

your refractometer needs calibrated, 1.008 is hypo and any lower will harm fish. If the refractometer is spot on then you have hypo resistant ich and need to use meds.

Just had it calibrated and it was spot on. Confirmed it with refractometer at work. Bicolor angel is doing wonderfully in 1.006 SG though, eating pellets like a champ.

 

[scooter31707]

1.008 is the lowest. Your fish are in danger at 1.006

 

[ThRoewer]

Just had it calibrated and it was spot on. Confirmed it with refractometer at work. Bicolor angel is doing wonderfully in 1.006 SG though, eating pellets like a champ.

How did you calibrate it and to which salinity range?

For hyposalinity you need to calibrate to 1.000 with RO-DI or distilled water.
A refractometer that is calibrated for 1.026 will give you wrong readings in the therapeutic hyposalinity range.

As for the disease not clearing up, you either have a hyposaline ich strain or what your fish have wasn't ich to begin with.

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