Hypo and Progress

[hnf2k]

we have all established that i need a better way to test my salinity. how do i know if my hypo is working on my cowfish? is there something i could look for? the white spots are still there but the salinity has only been low for a few days. what do you think?

 

[beth]

They should have been gone. Its a stab in the dark if you are using a swing arm. What about a glass hydrometer?

 

[hnf2k]

ill look into it i guess. but as of now ill keep trying to lower the salinity very little at a time.

 

[melbournefl]

HN, for the last several days everyone here has been asking you to please not risk your livestock to a "guesstimate" of your SG yet you seem to refuse the very advice you asked for. Instead, you decided to buy more livestock rather than investing a hundred bucks in a refractometer. Hypo is not a treatment that can be done by "guesswork," it's a very specific treatment that needs to be followed exactly as directed. This is not a case of "it's my tank, so I'll do things my way" it's a proven technique that delivers proven results WHEN INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOLLOWED. I don't mean to start ranting but you're risking your livestock with your attitude. I just can't understand why you continue to ask questions over the last few months and invariably ignore the answers you are given.
Just my .02, good luck to you and your livestock, I truly hope you manage to pull this off.
Later,
Paul

 

[dburr]

HNF2K
Do you have a LFS near you?
I just finished my hypo and I don't have a hydrometer to test the water. I took my tank water and new water I mixed that my swingarm said was 1.009. Both were right on the money. It's just an option.

 

[hnf2k]

yes i have a lfs near me, but it uses a swing arm.
melbourne, unlike most people on the board im only 18. im in school full time so i only work 24 hours a week. im in debt to my mom who paid for the initial setup of the tank. so i only take a few bucks from each paycheck i get and she takes the rest. i only earn 9 an hour. so yes if there is a chance that i can use the hydrometer i have now and maybe save my 10 dollar fish then ill take that chance instead of spending 100 bucks to save a fish taht cost me 10 bucks and that picks on my cleanup crew.

 

[melbournefl]

but you could afford a $30 mantis shrimp and setting up another species tank for it? As I said on one of your many other posts regarding this problem, it's a question of priorities.
Good luck to you and your livestock.
Paul

 

[hnf2k]

i had the tank and i had the filter. all i bought was the shrimp.