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Originally Posted by Okayamapiper  No idea as I am new around here as well. You can lower salinity over a period of hours by removing saltwater and adding fresh until the target specific gravity is met. As for raising salinity, this is stressful to the fish, so it needs to be done very gradually. I take about a week to go from 1.008 to 1.023. Remember that after a few days, the ich will appear to have died off, but those are only the adults. The white dots are ich with eggs which are deposited on the substrate. No medication or hypo will kill them until they hatch. There are still ich inside the fish that need to mature and leave eggs, so to be sure to wipe out the ich takes about 5 weeks. To prevent any reoccurence will require a good QT regimen for all newcomers.
I also use ozone as a precaution in the main tank. Kills all the nasty buggers plus oxidizing all DOCs making it easirer for my skimmer to do its job. |
What type of ozone setup is good as to pick the right size and what equipment works and ones that do not.