Day 13-Friday December 9:
Female Blue Chin and Clown Triggers have Marine Ich.
Introduced a Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) to aid in eradication of Cryptocaryon from female Blue Chin and Clown Triggers.
Cleaner begins cleaning Triggers within 1 hour of introduction.
Also begin lowering SG for hyposalinity treatment. SG measures 1.024. Intend to lower .002/day to 1.015. Intend to maintain 1.015 for one week.
Day 14-Saturday December 10:
AM SG reading: 1.0225.
Remove another 10 gallons and replace with FW.
Other readings this day:
Temp: 81.1F
pH: 8.0
NO2: 0.1
NO3: 5
NH3: 0.1
Alk: 5.04 ( will get this up tomorrow).
Male Blue Chin came out for PM feeding and decided to stick around for after dinner mints. Looks healthy.
Brown diatom algae beginning to set in.
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Mark.
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