Hyposalinity another try

bullitr

bullitr

broke but happy
I was doing copper treatment on my new Angels after 2 days the bulkhead leaks then flood my family room again and due to severe time restriction, I have to act fast and transfer all the angels and butterfly in the newly cycled main tank only 1 month old. Anyways the fish are doing great but one of them have a single spot of ick. Everyone is eating very well and I will have a copper tank waiting if the its a velvet.

The question are can i decreased the salinity in 4 -5 days period instead of 72 hours ? My rodi can make enough water to decrease it that fast I probably need to remove 300 plus to lower my salinity
60 gallons a day
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Also I just add some cerameco detox
Blox on the tank to help with my bioload
Later on . Will that change anything ?
Thank you


PS
The skimmer is temporary my sump blew up few days ago.
 
Decreasing the salinity more slowly won't matter, the clock starts when you hit 1.009. If you're planning on using the above tank, you may have problems as higher salinity water in the sand bed and rockwork will slowly leech out and tend to raise the salinity.

I would also advocate having a good refractometer calibrated to 0.000 with DI water.

You say you have a copper tank waiting in case it's velvet - why not use that tank? The copper will treat both velvet and ich and is more reliable than hypo as a treatment for ich.
 
Mrscribbled said:
Just one spot? I'd definitely wait before a drastic treatment. Could be a number of other things.
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Why wait ? I don't like hyposalinity but that's the only option I have right now. The Tanks transfer method will be too much for this large fish. I can't QT all the fish on a copper since I have wrasse. I won't wait until its too late. Anyway The spot are gone after I put the pair of my 3 years old cleaner wrasse. I will slowly reduce my salinity so I don't stress my fishes .

Anyway Thank you.
 
Personally i love hypo treatment ..I put every new fish through it ..
As far as dropping over 4-5 days ,i have read (will try and find) that the parasite "may" have a chance to adjust to the lower salinity if it is lowered too slowly ..I have always lowered it in about 6 hours ...
 
I have fret over a single spot before only to find out it wasn't ich and instead was flukes. That's why I said I'd wait.
 
More than the 'single spot' question is what approach you take to treating new fish. If you believe that all new fish should undergo treatment for ich, then you should treat, as the copper treatment you started was incomplete.

If you are part of the 'observe for signs of disease' camp, then observe.

Personally, I would treat, but I treat all new fish, regardless. By your statement that you had started a course of copper treatment, I would guess that you do the same.
 
When I worked maintenance we dropped salinity like a rock & never had a problem.
Going up is another story, that has to be done SLOWLY.
 
bullitr said:
Why wait ? I don't like hyposalinity but that's the only option I have right now. The Tanks transfer method will be too much for this large fish. I can't QT all the fish on a copper since I have wrasse. I won't wait until its too late. Anyway The spot are gone after I put the pair of my 3 years old cleaner wrasse. I will slowly reduce my salinity so I don't stress my fishes .

Anyway Thank you.
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Not an opinion on treating or not; but wrasse don't have a problem with copper.
 
He has sand dwelling wrasse also. How does one treat those via copper. Do sand absorb the copper making the copper level hard to determine?
 
loup said:
He has sand dwelling wrasse also. How does one treat those via copper. Do sand absorb the copper making the copper level hard to determine?
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You take some sand, and put it in a pyrex bowl for the wrasse (glass won't absorb anything). The sand will absorb a little of the copper, but it's negligible IMO. Just test it every night before you turn off the lights.
 
HumbleFish said:
You take some sand, and put it in a pyrex bowl for the wrasse (glass won't absorb anything). The sand will absorb a little of the copper, but it's negligible IMO. Just test it every night before you turn off the lights.
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Yeah, I've used a shallow Pyrex baking dish with some sand with several sand-dwelling wrasse.
 
sleepydoc said:
More than the 'single spot' question is what approach you take to treating new fish. If you believe that all new fish should undergo treatment for ich, then you should treat, as the copper treatment you started was incomplete.

If you are part of the 'observe for signs of disease' camp, then observe.

Personally, I would treat, but I treat all new fish, regardless. By your statement that you had started a course of copper treatment, I would guess that you do the same.
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I can't put a copper on the main tank it will be SPS tank and treating them separately on a few different tank will be a lot of work.Which mean, I need 5- 6 tanks 3 -4 for copper and 2 for tank transfer for wrasse
 
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