I decided to go with hyposalinity, hard to catch all my fish. Time will tell
Starting Hyposalinity today for ich
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I decided to go with hyposalinity, hard to catch all my fish. Time will tell
ThRoewer
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While hyposalinity works in general well in a HT, it's not a good choice for a DT treatment as you would need to treat for almost 3 months to be safe.
Hyposalinity works by preventing ich to encyst, so if a sterile HT is set up with hyposalinity and the sick fish transferred into it, the treatment can be done within two weeks.
But since already existing cysts are not affected by hyposalinity you have to wait them out - and that can take up to 3 months (possibly more).
Keeping fish for that long at such low salinity can lead to complications and losses.
If it was me I would try to catch as many fish out as possible - usually, with patience you will be able to catch most, if not all fish.
Another good thing about hyposalinity is that newly added fish should not be able to reinfect fish that have already been cleaned up.
The only risk is that you may be dealing with a low salinity ich strain, but that's usually something you find out within a week which usually gives you time to switch to TTM or another ich eradication method.
Hyposalinity works by preventing ich to encyst, so if a sterile HT is set up with hyposalinity and the sick fish transferred into it, the treatment can be done within two weeks.
But since already existing cysts are not affected by hyposalinity you have to wait them out - and that can take up to 3 months (possibly more).
Keeping fish for that long at such low salinity can lead to complications and losses.
If it was me I would try to catch as many fish out as possible - usually, with patience you will be able to catch most, if not all fish.
Another good thing about hyposalinity is that newly added fish should not be able to reinfect fish that have already been cleaned up.
The only risk is that you may be dealing with a low salinity ich strain, but that's usually something you find out within a week which usually gives you time to switch to TTM or another ich eradication method.
ThRoewer, Just wanting your opinion on my situation. Placed fish in quarantine tank, using water from DT last Saturday afternoon. 20 gallons. Was going to do TTM. But it really stressed my Copper band. So decided on hyposalinity method. Monday night changed out 3 gallons for heated RODI water. Same thing on Tuesday morning. Down to just under 25% gravity. But again the copperband was stressing. So waited until Wednesday night to do a little over 2 gallon change. Finished tonight, Thursday. Fish all appear to be doing well. Only a light infestation. Came in on some rocks. Grrrr. Do I need to transfer them to a bucket and clean my HT? Worried that some may have already had time to encyst. Other fish are two bengai, one scooter blenny and a pyramid butterfly fish. DT is 140 gallon now fishless.
And if you do recommend cleaning it. Does it have to dry for 24 hours or just be dry? I was thinking I could dry it with a hair blower. My other HT has a white tail bristle tooth tang in it. Almost 10 week quarantine up tomorrow and now he/she will be there longer! So running out of space.
Shelley
And if you do recommend cleaning it. Does it have to dry for 24 hours or just be dry? I was thinking I could dry it with a hair blower. My other HT has a white tail bristle tooth tang in it. Almost 10 week quarantine up tomorrow and now he/she will be there longer! So running out of space.
Shelley
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