Hypo salinity
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MrTuskfish
Team RC
Me either. What are you treating?
Hal
New member
Yes. Lots. I used to treat with Cupramine for ich but my mortality rate was still pretty high. When I tried hyposalinity my mortality rate dropped dramatically. Now I use it exclusively.
Read this for a quick and easy way to do hyposalinity properly:
http://atj.net.au/marineaquaria/hyposalinity.html
As newbie on this procedure did suffer one mortality, only two fish as nano cube, even perhaps other stress going on. Looks like Ich. Lost a fish on 4th day of procedure. Likely went too fast on salinity drop. Will say the honey Damsel left is incredibly hardy, my bicolor not as well. Will be more cautious on using this method in future, thanks all for the feedback.
I'm going to continue with a different method, was so disappointed with a fish loss raised the salinity quickly, Damsel didn't even blink, replaced the removed invertebrates as they will not have a chance at such a low salinity.
I'm going to continue with a different method, was so disappointed with a fish loss raised the salinity quickly, Damsel didn't even blink, replaced the removed invertebrates as they will not have a chance at such a low salinity.
stingythingy45
New member
Yup,treated all my fish years back after a crypto outbreak.
Tank has been parasite free since.
Tank has been parasite free since.
I've used both hyposalinity and cupramine successfully. To me, I prefer cupramine because of 3 things:
1.) I don't have to guess if it is velvet or ich.... copper treats both where as hypo only treats ich.
2.) My fish seem to tolerate it just as well as hypo.
3.) Hypo is very hard to get and keep the correct salinity level... You MUST have a perfectly calibrated refractometer and make sure to never let the salinity rise above 1.009 (an ATO greatly helps). In a bare bottom with cupramine, keeping the appropriate copper levels is much easier imo.
I failed once with a blue hippo tang in hypo and had to retreat with cupramine after (this is why people watch them in QT for at least 3-4 more weeks after treatment =) ). The blue hippo (and more importantly my entire tank) has been ich free for almost a year now!
1.) I don't have to guess if it is velvet or ich.... copper treats both where as hypo only treats ich.
2.) My fish seem to tolerate it just as well as hypo.
3.) Hypo is very hard to get and keep the correct salinity level... You MUST have a perfectly calibrated refractometer and make sure to never let the salinity rise above 1.009 (an ATO greatly helps). In a bare bottom with cupramine, keeping the appropriate copper levels is much easier imo.
I failed once with a blue hippo tang in hypo and had to retreat with cupramine after (this is why people watch them in QT for at least 3-4 more weeks after treatment =) ). The blue hippo (and more importantly my entire tank) has been ich free for almost a year now!
f3honda4me
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I'm not certain that you can really lower salinity "too fast". I know that if the situation is bad, you can drop them into 1.009 salinity immediately. It's going back up that must be done slowly.
Palting
New member
Like he said, you can bring the salinity down rather quickly and be just fine. I doubt that that's what caused your mortality. I brought mine down from 1.026 to 1.009 in a 48 hour period. Bringing it back up quickly, on the other hand, can be deadly. Bringing it up from 1.009 to 1.026 typically takes me just over 7 days. You got lucky with your damsel surviving the quick rise.
