Dt hypo treatment

[asylumdown]

The most current scientific research on C. Irritans doesn't bode we'll for hypo as a treatment. That's a pretty massive, system re-setting intervention for something that's not guaranteed to work IMO.

There's lots of variants of ich in this trade. If your variant happens to be from a place like the NE coast of Australia, hypo probably won't work as variants from Australia can natively occur in natural "hypo" conditions. If you're lucky and your variant is from the Red Sea, it might work. If you have more than one variant though... Well, anyway it's a huge roll of the dice no matter what you do. I've done a near masters level of research on this parasite and I can say that I won't elbother with manipulating salinity as a control method again.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

The most current scientific research on C. Irritans doesn't bode we'll for hypo as a treatment

Don't go scaring him from trying it Adam

If, after 4 weeks of Hypo and another 4 weeks of regular Sg, he doesn't see any MI, he'll be fine
If he has to go beyond that and use some kind of copper, at least his fish will be in an environment that it can be used, and his other critters will be in a fallow situation

[gregzz4]

By the way, I can't stress enough the need to keep the Sg below 1.009
All the reading I did showed enough proof that above 1.009, and as much as 1.010, allowed MI to live

I kept my round of Hypo @ 1.008

[Mike-fish]

So then what would you recommend. I would rather stay away from copper and keep the stress to a minimum for the fish

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Mike-fish

So then what would you recommend. I would rather stay away from copper and keep the stress to a minimum for the fish

Who are you responding to ?

[Mike-fish]

All. I still have the 175g that I could bring online and do hypo in instead that way there would be no rock or sand to deal with but I can't dose copper in that tank as I plan to sell it soon. What method would be the best to treat them. I also have an empty 80g that I could use but again no copper allowed.

[gregzz4]

I'm in the 'no copper' group, so I vote for the Hypo routine
I'll stress again ... 1.008 worked for me. 1.009 can border on the limits of resistance, so do as you will

Whether you remove your fish, or remove your inverts corals and LR is up to you

Whatever makes your life easier and makes the most sense

I know you're looking for an answer, but you have to make up your own mind

Put all your fish in one tank, and the rest in another