How long should i acclimate my fish into hypo?

[dimitrinivo]

I'm moving my fish into a hospital tank to treat for ich and flukes, My salinity in the display is 0.25 and my salinity in the hospital tank is 0.09, how long should i acclimate my fish for? I was thinking 6-12 hours

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I'm moving my fish into a hospital tank to treat for ich and flukes, My salinity in the display is 0.25 and my salinity in the hospital tank is 0.09, how long should i acclimate my fish for? I was thinking 6-12 hours

I think I just replied to your other post....

You can generally halve the salinity of a fish in 12 hours. You don't do it like floating a fish in a bag though - you set up your tank at say, 1.023 and move the fish over. Then, every 2 hours or so, remove some of the water and replace it with freshwater at the proper temperature, 20% of the tank volume at a time. Four, 20% FW additions will get you down to around 1.0095 At the conclusion of the treatment (typically 30 days) you need to bring them up very slowly - perhaps over 5 days.

Jay

 

[dimitrinivo]

thanks, this was helpful, I'll raise the salinity of the QT to match my DT then lower it down to hypo over a couple days

 

[Greg P]

Do you have any inverts/coral in your DT? Why not place them in the 20g and drop the DT salinity instead

 

[dimitrinivo]

Do you have any inverts/coral in your DT? Why not place them in the 20g and drop the DT salinity instead

yes its a full blown reef i did everything backwards, should have quarantined each fish individually before adding them into the DT