keonia
Member
Hi Beth,
I have a hippo tang - about a week old and he's a 1 incher. I got him straight from the batch of tang's the LFS recieved. After checking out the pictures on your disease & treatment thread, I am convinced that my hippo has ich. When I called my lFS to check to see if their tangs had ich, it was a negative. I did not quarantine him like I should have, but the chances of him catching ich was from the stress that the damsel imposed on it. I removed the damsel the very next day --- 4 days passed and only now, I'm noticing the ich.
Now, I know I am not looking at any copper treatment and hyposalinity would be the method of choice. I have some corals in my tank and other inhabitants so I need to act quick because I don't want to contaminate my tank.
1. Should I be slowly aclimating hippo to the quarantine tank.. with the same salinity and tank water as my main tank?
1a when I do the hyposalinity -- am I going to place the hippo into the quarantine tank for a couple of weeks before returning back to the main tank?????
2. will this be causing more stress on the hippo -- acclimating it to the quarantine tank water...????
I have a hippo tang - about a week old and he's a 1 incher. I got him straight from the batch of tang's the LFS recieved. After checking out the pictures on your disease & treatment thread, I am convinced that my hippo has ich. When I called my lFS to check to see if their tangs had ich, it was a negative. I did not quarantine him like I should have, but the chances of him catching ich was from the stress that the damsel imposed on it. I removed the damsel the very next day --- 4 days passed and only now, I'm noticing the ich.
Now, I know I am not looking at any copper treatment and hyposalinity would be the method of choice. I have some corals in my tank and other inhabitants so I need to act quick because I don't want to contaminate my tank.
1. Should I be slowly aclimating hippo to the quarantine tank.. with the same salinity and tank water as my main tank?
1a when I do the hyposalinity -- am I going to place the hippo into the quarantine tank for a couple of weeks before returning back to the main tank?????
2. will this be causing more stress on the hippo -- acclimating it to the quarantine tank water...????