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Justlooking, I have the same problem. I have 72 gal main tank, 29hospital tank. All my fish in 72 gal w/inverts. Purchased royal gramma & put in hopsital tank 10 days. No sign of ich. Added gramma to main tank and now all my fish have ich. I even feed my fish garlic soaked food and every fish...

What is the LOWEST salinity I can keep in my tank w/Fish and inverts? Currently salinity is 1.022. Thank you

when we orig. purchased powder blue tang, the copepods caught a ride w/him. Then a few weeks later we had ich AND copepods in the tank. then we did hyposalinity. Both ich and copepods disappeared. Now,(about 2mo later) copepods are back and in huge numbers. Never had any live rock or sand. They...

I completed hyposalinity over 1 mo. ago. Prior to hypo I did have copepods so based on some prev. posts on this bb I thought my copepods were gone for good. However, I have an escalating copepod problem, with my fish jerking, dashing and scratching to get them off his gills (poweder blue tang)...

I'm considering purchasing cleaner shrimp but I'm trying to get information before I buy these little guys. I currently have fish only w/2 red and 1 blue sm. crabs. What type of shrimps do you have? What do they eat? What should the water temp be? PH? Can shrimps live with emerald crabs? Can...

I am currently raising the salinity (tail end of hyposalinity). I have professional wet/dry, 18watt double heliz, protein skimmer(red sea), new light bulbs in Nov. (corallife) and lights are on 6hrs a day. DI water and instant ocean salt is only used in my 72 gallon tank. I am getting a brownish...

Great-thank you for all your help. As you mentioned I guess I'll find out if this was successful if my fish remain ich free in the next 2 weeks. Thank you again!

When I pull the 10% (72gal tank, 10%=7 gallons or 2 containers i have at home) of my tank water, do I add a cup of salt to each container or spread the cup of salt a little into each container? then add back into my tank the following day? You mentioned it should take 4 to 6 days to get the...

I have completed hypo w/no signs of ich anymore (thankfully). I'll take about 5-7 days to raise salinity back to my normal rate 1.022 or so. Q-can I use the water in my tank (pull out 15gallons let it sit then add salt to tank water, put back into my tank)? or Q-just do regular water changes...

My powder blue tang is in the 75 gallon MAIN tank I'm treating w/hypo. I put my inverts in the 29gal that I'm changing sm. amounts of water in every other day to keep levels down since that tank is not cycled. Acutally since Anthem mentioned in one of the other posts-the 29gal tank will...

I'm still undergoing Hypo. This started a few days ago: When my powder blue tang scratches against corals only when he eats. Before he eats his coloring is pale. After he eats color changes from pale to dark, then pale to dark until lights go off for the evening. This changing of color happens...

Currently undergoing hyposalinity. Everything was going well. All fish eating fine, swimming normal, no scratching, EXCEPT my flamehawk. I actually noticed about 3 weeks prior odd behaviour. hiding a lot and a little dis-colored. I attributed this behaviour to the ich infestation in my tank. The...

Based on what Terry B was explaining, since I've begun the lower salinity w/proper tools, I should wait to see if the ich re-appears on my fish. If they do, then i do not have ich. I may have a 'less common parasite that can cause white spots' and hypo will not kill that. Then I'd have to use...

I really appreicate everyones input. As we continue to wait it out and see if the "ich" re-appears in my MAIN tank, my inverts are in my 2nd tank that is NOT cycled. Every 2nd day I'm removing water to keep the ammonia down. Q=Can you cycle a tank w/inverts? I have 2 emerald, 2 blue leg and 1...

I'm sorry to be confusing. We were using glass hydrometer to measure salinity. My hubby out of town until end of last week, that's when I saw your conversation chart. We didn't start using the pinpoint until he came back. Do you think we can use formalin/quick cure in conjunction w/hypo?

I'm using pinpoint salinity monitor. I double checked my notes. I purchased that last tuesday. For 7 days it's been at 1.0085. Prior to that it was 1.010. The conversion chart I took from a previous post w/you, pitsons and another person I think it was dated last week sometime. I'm sorry I don't...

I'm into 2 weeks w/hypo. Per the salinity monitor and glass hydrometer my salinity is at 1.008. It flucuates between 1.075 and 1.0085. Depending on how long I keep the lights on. My ph is at 8.0. Here is my question, since doing hypo, i've had 3 outbrakes. This morning another outbrake. They are...

If you have NO fish in your main tank the ich will die around 30days because they have no host to attach to. Upper right hand corner of the BB you'll see "search". Click it and type in "ich" you will see pages of other peoples questions on this subject. It is VERY helpful. I'm currently running...

Last night, I called 3 fish stores in my area and I got 2 different answers. 1) get 25watt for my 72 gallons 2) get 18 watt for my 72 gallons Which one do I get? They both recommend one called customsealife w/doublehelix. This sounds good but I'd like to see what people on this BB think...

I just found one on website <a href="http://www.bigalsonline.com." target="_blank">www.bigalsonline.com.</a> Also, look under section labeled "disease" here because someone name pitsons just bought one this week for some testing. That's how I found out about these even existing...Carrie