I have some tough fish!

[rufus2008]

I had an ich outbreak in my dt about a month ago. Caught my 12 fish and put them in a uncycled 30 gallon tank. Started treatment with hikari ickx for saltwater, finished this treatment couple weeks later, lost 4 fish during treatment. Got nervous that ich might come back because ichx is fromeldehyde not copper so put my remaining 8 fish in hypo. They are handling hypo well, then I had to work 5 12 hour nightshifts in a row and wasn't able to do the 50% wc's every 2nd day like I have been up to this point. Checked my water: ammonia zero, nitrites at least 25 thats as high as the test kit reads, nitrates at least 50 same as nitrite for test kit. I don't know how they survived that but I did an immediate 80% wc. My 8 survivors are: powder brown tang, marroon clown, lamarck angel, green chromis, yellow tail damsel, lawnmower blenny, niger trigger and bursa trigger. I just wonder if the hypo helped, more oxygen in water, during this, any thoughts?

 

[revsgirl]

:bump:

 

[rufus2008]

Ok so Wednesday is the last day of hypo already (4 weeks) for my fish and in 2 weeks the dt will be fallow for 8 weeks. So is there any advice on how to raise the salinity in the ht over a 2 week period, I just don't want to mess it up now, its been a long enough road. I started out with 13 fish and now only have 7 survivors, and want to keep it that way.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

My only advice is to take it slow and not to raise it too quickly. Good luck!!

 

[rufus2008]

If I change 5 gallons every other day, the 5 gallon would be 1.023 and the ht is a 33 gallon, do you think that would be a gradual enough rise in salinity to not shock the fish?

 

[skinz78]

Agreed, just raise it gradually and you should be fine.