ok here we go... i checked my order status on swf.com and it says it will be here tomorrow. wednesdays are my busiest days of the week, on campus for class from 10-5, practice from 7-10, so i will not start hypo tomorrow, i plan on starting the process thursday. here is my schedule as i see it. please let me know how it looks and feel free to suggest any changes to it that i need to make.
tomorrow(wednesday):
1. IF my refractometer is here before i leave for class at 9:30 (which it could be), i will check the salinity of my DT and my QT and if they match, transfer fish in the morning
2. if refractometer is not here in the morning, come home on my break in class from 12-2, and do that then... this is probably the better option since it may take awhile to get the fish from the DT to the QT.
thursday:
my schedule looks like this: only one class from 12:30 to 1:45 (however, being that my teacher is less intelligent than most of us in the class, and also he posts his notes online, and doesnt call role, i may just skip this class so i can spend more time at home lowering salinity, because as i understand it, the 48 hours that you lower the salinity is the most important time of the whole process, correct me if wrong.) actually, yes, i have just decided that i will not attend that class, so the only things i have to do thursday are attend a meeting for a school related organization that i am in, from 4:30-5:30, and work from 6-10
friday: no class no work... can spend all day working on QT.
sorry for the long post, thanks to all that have made it to this point. as it looks, if i start lowering the salinity thursday morning, i can wrap it up saturday morning with only being away from the tank from 4:30-10 on thursday night, and possibly a couple hours if i go out friday night. i am planning on mixing some salt water tomorrow, so that it will be ready for me to start putting in to the QT to lower the sal. here is one question, do i take out QT water and replace it with plain fresh water, or do i use salt water with lower salinity, like just under 1.009?