Hypo salinity level?

[rookiegirl]

Treating ich with copper and it's stressing my fish in Qt terribly, wish to slowly switch to hypo treatment. What is the recommended salinity level? Tx.

 

[limitdown]

exactly 1.009, not higher and not lower.
Which copper treatment are you using? I use cupramine and all of the fish i've used it on have taken it very well.

 

[rookiegirl]

I am using Coppersafe, i think it's made by mardel. I had four clowns and a yellow goby. Two clowns died already (i didn't overdose) one has laboured breathing, one is fine and the goby is fine. They were in the early stages of ick so they shouldn't have died, thought they were reacting badly to the treatment.

 

[billsreef]

I'd be surprised at clowns reacting badly to coppersafe if it was dosed properly. Could be they also have Oodinium (velvet) or Brooklynella or flukes? Either one of those would kill fairly quickly. How long ago did start seeing symptoms and what symptoms are you seeing? Any chance of taking a decent photo and posting it?

 

[rookiegirl]

Of the two clowns that i have left one of them has just started showing signs of velvet as opposed to just ick. It had a couple of ick spots but as they have dropped off there seems to be some 'patches' of velvet on it now. Coppersafe treats both so i guess i should just let it run it's course...can't take a pic right now as the living room has gone dark with the evening and i don't want to turn the lights on in the QT.

Will hypo treatment take care of velvet as well if i go that route?

BTW, the goby that was looking perfectly healthy (also in the Qt) died tonight. Must mean more than just a simple ick issue.

 

[billsreef]

Hypo is not effective on velvet, so copper would be the treatment to go with. Hopefully you got to it in time. The biggest problem with Velvet is that it often reaches lethal proportions before the average aquarist recognizes it

 

[rookiegirl]

Thanks for your help, i'll keep up with the copper treatment.

 

[squealy]

Since ich seems so prevalent in newly acquired fish, does anyone ever have copper in their QT from the beginning so as to get a jump on this infection? I'm considering doing this on my next fish, and I could then stop the copper if no spots develop within the first week.

 

[limitdown]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13078070#post13078070 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by squealy
Since ich seems so prevalent in newly acquired fish, does anyone ever have copper in their QT from the beginning so as to get a jump on this infection? I'm considering doing this on my next fish, and I could then stop the copper if no spots develop within the first week.

A few members here have mentioned that they use copper pre-emptively on all incoming fish since it's effective in treating flukes, ich and velvet at the same time. I'm now considering going down that route with Cupramine, since it's the least-harsh copper treatment.