Grnorton
New member
Ok so 9 days ago I dropped the salinity in my tank down to 1.009. I used 35ppt solution 1 part, 2 part rodi water to get a salinity of 1.0088 to calibrate my refractometer. Within 3 days all flashing stopped and all signs of ich are gone. PH has remained constant at 8.3 miraculously. All inverts were removed and thrown in the Refugium which I disconnected. All my fish (blue hippo tang, orange shoulder tang, mag fox, 2 snowflake clowns, bicolor Benny, pink spotted goby, fairy wrasse and hoevens wrasse) are doing fantastic. All are eating like pigs, swimming great and are much less shy. I have an auto top off to keep salinity constant, but I'm recalibration my refractometer daily and checking salinity just to be certain. Im planning on doing a total of 6 weeks at 1.009 and then brining salinity up .001 every day after that. Im trying this now because I tried chloroquine phosphate in the display with no success, and I don't have the space to qt all of these guys without going and buying a 55 gallon set up ( which is what I will do if this fails). I did not have an ammonia spike at all (monitored with seachem badge.). And I'm changing filter socks every 24 hours and cleansing with bleach to kill off any ich that may be laying dormant in them. I'm also running a uv sterilizer 24/7. And finally I am doing a 20% water change every 5-7 days and stirring up the sand bed each time. I'm hoping this will help someone else in my position and give some insight on how this treatment works. Thank you and check out my profile, I just uploaded 2 pictures of my setup as wel.
