Powder blue with ich

[loohunter]

Have never heard of Crytocaryans reproducing in water with a salinity of 1.008 to 1.009
Perhaps lower it down to 1.008 and see if they fall off and not reproduce

totally agree. drop it a bit more till it's off .002 more shouldn't hurt. watch ph and ammonia

 

[APch1ll3n]

I will try dropping it another .001 and see how it goes. Thank you for all the help

 

[kpiotrowski]

I have a digital refractometer if you want to cross reference. you could bring yours over and we will make up a 1.009 solution using the digital refractometer, and then set your to 1.009 usiing that solution. your refractometer being calibrated at Barrier for say 1.026 may not be as accurate at 1.009 aslo doesn't take much to knock some of them out. I have had my manual refractometer be off by .05 after only a few days of testing once.

 

[mfinn]

I have a digital refractometer .

Which one?

 

[kpiotrowski]

Which one?

milwaukee ma887

 

[APch1ll3n]

Well I lower the salinity to 1.008 and held for about a week. The slime on the Blue tang started to slime off and killed the tang. Prob do a fresh water dip and copper next time. I also did a hypo for my Blonde Naso right before I got this blue tang and it worked fine. Not sure what went wrong.

Thank you for every1 input

 

[NC2WA]

if memory serves correctly, hypo should be done for at least 4 wks, one week is not long enough.

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/threads/27155-A-Hyposalinity-Treatment-Process

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Well I lower the salinity to 1.008 and held for about a week. The slime on the Blue tang started to slime off and killed the tang. Prob do a fresh water dip and copper next time. I also did a hypo for my Blonde Naso right before I got this blue tang and it worked fine. Not sure what went wrong.

Thank you for every1 input

Powder blue probably developed secondary bacterial infections, opportunistic attack situation can occur with prolonged infestation. Sorry to hear about it but if keeping an ocean in a box was easy, "everybody would be doing it"

 

[APch1ll3n]

Its been in hypo for about 4 weeks now. But thank you

 

[mrlang1981]

Cleaner shrimp or cleaner wrasse or cleaner goby