strange disease

[mopiko]

based on all the bros experience and comments seems like its environmental cause.

i'm thinking of raising the PH and saltinity together slowly. what you guys think?

btw, bro law i soak the feeds with selcon and vit c before feeding the fish.

[FuEl]

Raising pH first would be less stressful. If you raise both salinity and pH at the same time the fishes will have to cope with 2 changing parameters.

[LaW]

good.

no matter what, do it with extreme caution and patience.

ick might strikes back if you raise salinity too quickly and not patience enough. and this time, it will caught ur fish off guard.

all the best.

[mopiko]

Raising pH first would be less stressful. If you raise both salinity and pH at the same time the fishes will have to cope with 2 changing parameters.

bro fuel. agree. the issue is if i raise my PH but saltinity is still low the PH will be low too. rite? how to counter that?

[LaW]

use complete buffer might be a better solution to overcome that.

to be honest, i wont be bothered too much if salinity is low. i will just buffer it with caution. it is able to bring it up to 8.3.

[Gouldian]

In my opinion, the reason why altering salinity works in controlling parasites, protozoans and even inverts is due to their inability to quickly adapt to changes to the salinity compared to higher form of life such as fishes. In fact, if we are to alter the salinity to drastically we will find that some fishes may not be able to adapt as well.

That's why I believe hypo treatment should be done in a way that fishes survives and protozoans cannot survive and once all visible symptoms in the fishes disappear, we should return the fishes to its natural environment.

Prolonged hypo-salinity will also lead to a cultivation of disease/ protozoans / parasites that may be dormant in a saline environment to thrive therefore creating a new problem that our fishes may not be able to handle. I am not a proponent of marine fishes kept long term in hypo-saline environment as I find thousands of years of evolution cannot be altered by us without any consequences.

I agree with bro Law and FuEl in that you should start by raising your pH and than slowing increase your salinity. (btw, I find buffering during hypo treatment is crucial for success as well).

Besides the above, do check on your ANN.

HTH

bro goudian / fuel

very cheem for me.... i'm doing hypo for 10 weeks and starting to raise my salinity this week what what i do? i'm running the below

1. aquamedic nitrate reducer (denni balls)

2. po4FR

3. carbon

4. skimmer

what should i do next? can i continue run the nitrate reducer instead of off as bro fuel said and slowly raise the salinity? so in time the parimeter will return to normal? PH is low due to hypo condition. ...