URGENT: Hyposality Treatment

[pommie]

I have a newly purchased blue tang that was scratching on rocks in my quarantine tank.
I decided to try hypo-salinity treatment which ive been running at 1.08 for the past 5 days only.

Problem is we have a heatwave today and my garage is going to hit 40 Deg C very soon and even with the fan cooling i fear it will be too much for the fish.

Q. Would it be possible (should i) for me to raise the salinity back to 1.26 by dripping over several hours using my display tank? I know the guide states raise it slowly over a period of 6 days.

Or should i leave it where it is and keep dropping frozen bottles in every now and again?

Thanks

 

[top shelf]

You don't want to raise it more then .002 per day which would take 9 days. You can lower salinity rather quickly but raising it to fast can be deadly to your fish. I would go with your plan to add frozen bottles if the water gets too hot.

 

[Uncle99]

Very good advice above.....

 

[pommie]

All good, took your advise and fish are still ok.

Sydney reached a record high of 47 Degrees today!

 

[pfan151]

Having your QT in a non climate controlled garage is always going to cause you stress. Isn’t there anywhere inside that you could put the tanknat least temporarily?

 

[pommie]

Having your QT in a non climate controlled garage is always going to cause you stress. Isn't there anywhere inside that you could put the tanknat least temporarily?

Ive already got two large tanks in the house, i think one more and id be served divorce papers

 

[hkgar]

47 celsius? That's like 116 F

Google desn't show that
https://www.google.com/search?q=sidney+australia+weather+temps&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

 

[Rover88]

47 celsius? That's like 116 F

Google desn't show that
https://www.google.com/search?q=sidney+australia+weather+temps&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/07/asia/australia-sydney-hottest-day/index.html

 

[hkgar]

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/07/asia/australia-sydney-hottest-day/index.html

Wow! Scary.

The opposite side - just saw in snowed in the Sahara desert.

 

[scooter31707]

I have a newly purchased blue tang that was scratching on rocks in my quarantine tank.
I decided to try hypo-salinity treatment which ive been running at 1.08 for the past 5 days only.

Problem is we have a heatwave today and my garage is going to hit 40 Deg C very soon and even with the fan cooling i fear it will be too much for the fish.

Q. Would it be possible (should i) for me to raise the salinity back to 1.26 by dripping over several hours using my display tank? I know the guide states raise it slowly over a period of 6 days.

Or should i leave it where it is and keep dropping frozen bottles in every now and again?

Thanks

I may be mistaken, but I thought 1.008 was too low. I thought 1.009 was the lowest you could go without harming the fish organs. I may be wrong on that. Also I think the timeframe is 30 days (no more). Also to get your SG back up I would fill your ATO up with saltwater at 1.26. Let that do the trick until you reach your desire SG.

 

[Uncle99]

I have read this and I used 1.009.....but I wonder if my measurement just just off a bit....maybe it was 1.008......

I would probably keep the target at 1.009 for safety...

 

[hkgar]

The target is 11-12 PPT or 1.008 to 1.009. PPT is not affected by temp.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1992196