Hiposalinity issues????

[Reefie]

Originally Posted by Midway

No is the other way around, fish from the store came in with higher salinity, my QT is already with hyposalinity(1.010). So i did make sure i acclamated them slowly. It 5 hours from 1.028 to 1.010. Was that too fast? I read that lowering the salinity can be very fast, without any damage to th fish but raising salinity should be done very slowly in a matter of days.

You are 100% correct on Lowering Salinity can be done quickly, Raising Salinity MUST be done over DAYS not hours.

I did the Hypo thing and found that some Wrasses cannot handle Hypo very well.

Hypo is very DELICATE, I went through a couple Mystery Wrasses. One was lost to the lower salinity, while the other was lost to an Ammonia spike.

I gave up on Hypo, I'm sticking to what works for me. QT with 1.025 Salinity and treating with Paraguard. WC's are done every 2 days to keep Ammonia in check. I'm using the cheapest Salt I can find, IO at $40 a bucket. I was using Reefer's Best, not realizing how quickly you can burn through a box with WC's that often. A 5 Gal bucket of IO Salt will last 1 month, I'm ok with that.