Icy problem

[Kelvin]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

It does not seem like you did any reading before doing this treatment! first off you must leave the fish in hypo for 4 weeks! second, salinity must be raised VERY SLOWLY! not more than 0.003 point per day, so to raise from 1.009 to 1.025 must take at least a week.

Your are going to creat an osmotic shock by raising the salinity too fast, plus...no way the ick is gone after only 1 week. You may thing it's gone because the white dots are gone but the parasite take MUCH longer to die.

Better start doing some reading if you want to keep any fish alive or an aquarium.

LIve rock is ok but all the pods and worms, bristle stars etc will die. I always do my hypo treatments with liverock to maintain an ammonia free QT. It is the best filtration ever. My liverock is always fine doing this. Of course not Ththe coral or inverts.

thanks I took all my live rock out left live rock and live sand in tank and lowered my salinity again