Hypo on a community tank with a Bamboo shark

[bklynz00]

My Powder blue has Ich, and he was in my Display tank with the other fish as well as my Bamboo Shark... My question to the people who know sharks: Can I run hypo. on the Bamboo Shark, without causing damage to the shark ? I have the hypo tank set up with the community fish in it. Dont know if I can add the shark. Or, can I leave the shark in my Display tank will the tank rid the ich with the shark in the tank ?Display

 

[grouperhead]

I'm going to move this over to the d/t. If you can, I'd put the shark in a different tank during the process. I know they don't respond well to copper, but not sure of hypo. Bo

 

[benthic]

I checked Scott Michaels book on this, and couldn't find anywhere if bamboo sharks were tolerant of salinity changes, or euryhaline. He did say that most sharks aren't very tolerant of it. He suggests a 7-10 day time frame with an sg of 1.014 for salinity-change-tolerant euryhaline species. So if you try it, just keep an eye on him and don't go over a week or so.

 

[rane]

Just to let you know that I lost my first leopard shark to hypo and i dont advise of it...he didnt make it over night :-(..but thats just my 2 cents maybe others have had luck., but i didnt

 

[bklynz00]

When I'am running the hypo on the other fish in the Hospital tank, should I be using chemicals to cure them of the ich ? And the Powder Blue died today.. :-( I still have the shark in the display tank, cause I dont know how to handle him for Ich. He doesnt show no signs and besides, the tank wont go fishless until I get him out.. Any suggestions ????

 

[rane]

Well when i had an ich outbreak I removed my picaso trigger and my buterfly which didnt make it and left the shark and my Eel in the display tank, left the picaso in the hospital tank with copper for 4 weeks and once i saw no signs on the picaso i put him back in the display and he has been ich free so I dont think sharks or Eels catch ick or ich and they dont house them either, but I may just be lucky

 

[bklynz00]

Terry B,
I dont have a "Refractometer" as of yet, although Iam working on it. I have to do some thing cause I had a Ich outbreak on a New Powder Blue in the display tank, which since died. I separted the rest of my fish in the hospital tank, while the shark remains in the display tank. In your opinion would you think the "hypo" would be effective in the display tank while the shark is still in there ?? I really dont have much choices, cause all I have is two tanks at the moment... Suggestions ??

 

[beth]

Originally posted by Terry B
You cannot use hypo on sharks or rayfish. Terry B

 

[benthic]

bkl, if you can't move him out for a while you probably ought to just leave him be in your main tank. Treatments for the shark when you aren't even sure he has ich would be unnecesary.
Scott (michael), has kept leopard sharks, gray smoothhound, tasseled wobbegong, coral catshark, and the atlantic stingray in hypo conditions with sg of 1.016-1.018.

 

[turbo21]

bamboo sharks do not do well in hypo