LFS - Salinity@ 1.0154 (20.5 ppt)

[TrevorHenryTDH]

Ehhh. Shoulda thrown them in a QT and carried same salinity and began medicating while raising the salinity, because all the good stuff once the hypo-salinity is gone the diseases come out and over a 2-3 week period of medicating and raising salinity they woulda been way better off.

 

[RaymondL]

Ehhh. Shoulda thrown them in a QT and carried same salinity and began medicating while raising the salinity, because all the good stuff once the hypo-salinity is gone the diseases come out and over a 2-3 week period of medicating and raising salinity they woulda been way better off.

That's a great idea - I'm thinking to do this - go back to LFS and get the same fish. I will set up the QT to match the salinity prior to the day. So based the fact that the LFS is 20.5ppt, and I want to raise it to 35 ppt over the weeks to come, how would I do that?

 

[twentyleagues]

The way I did it in the past was to top off with 1.026 saltwater.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

my water is 35ppt or 1.0264 - would you all agree that a 14.5ppt difference (or 0.011 specific gravity) is enough to might have caused the fish to die? I dripped acclimated for a long time."

I do not know, but many LFS do run low salinity to save money and to hopefully reduce diseases.

 

[TrevorHenryTDH]

I do not know, but many LFS do run low salinity to save money and to hopefully reduce diseases.

A lot of them too since fish come from wholesaler at 1.019