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We have ich in our tank so we have set up a quarantine tank and very slowly lowered the salinity to 1.011. It has been like this low for 10 days. Some of the fish have now have scaley scales which look like they are lifting. I have looked this up and it says it is a sign of kidney failure due to low salinity but we need to keep it low to clear the ich. Any suggestions what we could do.
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Scales Lifting In Low Salinity Water
Started By Guest_catherine_*, Feb 06 2012 09:32 PM
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:27 AM
Sorry I cannot help much here. I have never had to use hyposalinity nor had ich / whitespot. I prefer to use a large UV as preventative measure.
If these were mine and I was worried about kidney failure, I would raise the SG back up to normal and get the UV going.
Hopefully someone with more experience of whitespot can offer their advice.
If these were mine and I was worried about kidney failure, I would raise the SG back up to normal and get the UV going.
Hopefully someone with more experience of whitespot can offer their advice.
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:48 AM
i would have to agree with rona raise your sg back up and get a uv fish that are eating can fight white spot on there own so i would be more worred about the kidney failure
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 09:50 PM
Thanks for your advice, we have a regal tang but he seems to be ok on the scale lifting situation. He did have white spot but it seems to have gone. The blue damsels are suffering the most. No we do not feed our regal tang any seaweed or algae should we? In our normal tank I suppose there is plenty of algae to eat but not in a quarantine tank.
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