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Originally Posted by eldalote2  im with you jim, im looking to do the hyposalinity treatment on my fish except i am a little nervous! let me get this right... drop the salinity to 1.009 in my QT and drop the fish in? i used water from my DT and one of my filters. and tomorrow i just fish my fish out of the DT and drop them in? |
Drop the SG slowly over a 3-4 day period. I just changed 1/2 gal of water a day out with fresh ro water no salt added to it. My QT is a file folder box from Office depot. The biggest and hardest thing for me was not maintaining the sg which you need to keep very close eye on, but maintaing a reasonable level of Ph without big swings. Hypo IMO is agreat way to go if the species of fish can take it. Its a lot of work though and a refractometer is an absolute must.
Brian aka Pogodzib was the first person to tell me about this treatment and gave me this link almost a year ago. It is what I based all my Hypo procedures on. I ran every fish I have through hypo. Knock on wood...no ich yet. I am a believer at this point.
I would follow directions for hypo to the letter and raise and lower SG slowly over days.
Brian might have some good insight to hypo treatment as well as I have only copied what he does.
ATJ's Marine Aquarium Site - Reference - Hyposalinity Treatment