I am getting disgorged

[Ritt]

I am getting discouraged. The last 6 fish that have gone through quarantine have not made it out alive. I am not sure what to do going forward.

Here is the scenario. All fish were treated as if they had ich and were acclimated over the course of several hours to hypo conditions. The first couple of week’s things would be going fine. No signs of any series health conditions etc. Then all of a sudden 3 weeks would go by and the fish would die unexpectedly. The last fish was eating well and had a small ich outbreak on the 5th day. The ich cleared in a few days. Week three came and the fish broke out with ich again and was dead the next day. The fish previous to that showed no signs of ich and again I came home from work and the fish was dead.
All fish are fed twice a day frozen foods. My parameters are all zero. Although my PH was out a whack a bit and was reading around 7.0.

Am I missing something could these fish have some sort of internal infection. Are the hypo conditions to tough on them? I just don’t know what to do. I do not want to keep killing fish.

 

[poknsnok]

I always have issues when I qt fish also.. and I have a friend that hypos, has for years and never has issues.. I dont get it..

 

[paulamrein]

I too have never had problems with hypo. What's your salinity? and how do you measure it?

 

[paulamrein]

It may be also that you get a bad batch from the lfs what kind of fish are they and where do they come from? Philipians? indonesia? Could be a cyanide issue as well. Could be an lfs issue.

 

[Ritt]

I keep my water temp at 78 degrees and my SG at 1.009 and use a float style hydrometer in my QT tank.

The lists of fish that I have tried the last few months are

2 X Twin spot gobies
2 X 6 line wrasse
1 X Powder brown tang

The twin spots were bought online at marine depot and the wrasses and tang were brought the lfs. The fish purchased at the lfs had been there for months with no signs of disease and were eating well. As to where the fish originated from I could not tell you.

Over the past couple of years I have kept the following fish with little problems.

Diamond sand sifting gobies
Bicolor Angel
Royal Granma
True Percula Clown
Pearly Jaw fish


None of the fish I have purchased recently are really considered difficult to keep fish. I do have experience in the hobby. I just don’t get why I can’t keep a fish alive in QT.

Thank you
Jason

 

[zens]

you need a refractometer to properly measure the sg. you're probably not getting it low enough.

 

[Ritt]

Zens

How much of a difrence do you think a refractometer reads vs a hydrometer

I was also looking at rid ich tonight at the lfs. Does it work

 

[zens]

copper and hyposalinity are the only things that work. a refractometer
is needed to measure properly.