hyposalinity in DT

[areeftank]

Thanks for everyone's input, sorry I have been a little busy the last couple months.


I thought I would do one last update to wrap up, the treatment went very well and the tank suffered no losses,
If you do attempt to try this treatment, I recommend you keep a bottle of prime or alpha handy for the duration of the treatment and when you test copper you should also test for ammonia (every day) as the biological filtration gets a little bit shaken.
Once again a big thanks to everyone's input and I hope people can learn from this"¦
QT EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

stupid mistake,

i should have said when testing for your salt level test ammonia at the same time.

never used copper :rolleye1:

 

[reefjunkie42]

areeftank I have 1 question, do you have a sand bed? and if so how deep.

 

[reefinghabit]

i used to work for a lfs we ran hyposalinity down to 1.010 it was very efective at killing the parasite,i personally ran a salinity of 1.015 in my coral filled reef aquarium,i had no adverse effects on the corals or inverts.i lowered the salinity over a period of 4 days.im not suggesting u do the same but there was no impact on the biological filter,you always want to keep the uv running.i had a 125 gl with about 15 fish in it.ruby reef has a product that works for killing cryptocarryon and it is supposed to be reef safe.if u have a concern about an nh3 spike use a bio boosting product such as fritz zyme 9 it works wonders.nitrifying bacteria can survive lower salinities all the way down to lower brackish levels.i would take everyones advice and bottle it. to find the best recipe.i still believe when u use a highly nutricious diet with spirulina and garlic with b vitamins and some zeocon it helps boost the immune system and the fish is able to naturally fight off allot of common issues that a poor diet with lower water quality would normaly have on most fish.secondary infections are also healed well using melafix,it is a completely reef safe alternative.i have used it and never had any adverse effects on any invert or coral.best of luck with your endeavor.

 

[bperau]

Im in the process of doing hypo in my 180 DT. Did I really need to go through all the trouble of taking out all my LR or could I of just left it in?

 

[lhm nole]

Im in the process of doing hypo in my 180 DT. Did I really need to go through all the trouble of taking out all my LR or could I of just left it in?

I left mine in the tank with no issues at all no ammonia spike or ph fluctuations did it in a 400 gallon fowlr been ich free every since.