Hypo

[bif24701]

What is the best method for putting fish into a hypo QT? Slowly decreasing the salinity or can I place them straight into the QT with hypo?


Aaron

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[ThRoewer]

I've often just dumped them in and have had no issues with it. Though a bit of drip acclimation doesn't hurt.

Just keep in mind that the other way around you have to go slow until you get to 1.016. From there you can drip acclimate.

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[bif24701]

Sounds good!


Aaron

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[bif24701]

Another question, my green dragonet (mandarin) needs to feed on pods and I assume pods will not service in hypo in the QT, what is the best way to feed him?


Aaron

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[ThRoewer]

Mandarins are highly unlikely to have ich. If you want to treat it and it doesn't yet take frozen food, I would recommend using TTM on it and feed it live Tigger Pods (if you have mandarins you should have a pod culture!)

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[bif24701]

Mandarins are highly unlikely to have ich. If you want to treat it and it doesn't yet take frozen food, I would recommend using TTM on it and feed it live Tigger Pods (if you have mandarins you should have a pod culture!)

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Why do I need a separate pod culture? My display is a pod culture, I added tisbe pods and other amphipods/copepods when I started the tank up. I mean my rocks look crazy a night and a flash light, millions. Truthfully, is that enough for him? Do you really recommend a culture?

 

[bif24701]

To keep my display fallow is it important to removed the mandarin?


Aaron

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[ThRoewer]

Why do I need a separate pod culture? ...

For situations like this where you need to take him out of the tank.
Tigger Pot cultures are so stupid simple that there is really no excuse for not having one.
All you need is a few Container Store Shoe Boxes, old saltwater, flake food and a bottle of tigger pods to start it.

 

[ThRoewer]

To keep my display fallow is it important to removed the mandarin?

Some will tell you "yes", but I've done it with my mandarins in the tank and it worked as well (until I added some other fish with ich half a year later). I has some risk attached, but I would take the chance. I have a theory that the presence of a fish may also bait the ich tomites to come out of their cysts earlier, but then they find an unsuitable host and perish.

Again, it is risky, and you need to make the final call if you are willing to take a chance.

Though mandarins are only resistant to ich, not to velvet or brook.

 

[bif24701]

Some will tell you "yes", but I've done it with my mandarins in the tank and it worked as well (until I added some other fish with ich half a year later). I has some risk attached, but I would take the chance. I have a theory that the presence of a fish may also bait the ich tomites to come out of their cysts earlier, but then they find an unsuitable host and perish.



Again, it is risky, and you need to make the final call if you are willing to take a chance.



Though mandarins are only resistant to ich, not to velvet or brook.

I'm going to leave him in the display, otherwise it would be much to difficult to feed him. Thank you for your input. I hope after 12 weeks I'm done with crypto!


Aaron

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