Ick Hyposalinity Treatment

[1968OldsMan]

I'm undergoing Hyposalinity treatment in my 55Gallon fish only tank. It seems over the last few days ick has made a visual apperance in my tank so instead of just quarenting the fish i just took the live rock out and began lowering the salintiy in the tank. My clown has it bad, my puffer has a little on the fins and i can see faint white spots on the FireFish and yellow tang that are do for transfer to my 150 gallon i have had running for the last month.
does anyone recomend anything else to aid me i have ph buffers to increase the ph should it fall to low for the fish's sake please advise if i should do something else for them. there are no inverts in the tank or anything like that. I'm using distilled water as the place i get my RO water broke there machine so i was told this would work well. Thanks Brian I just really dont feel like loosing all these fish thats for sure.

[scubadude]

I just really dont feel like loosing all these fish thats for sure.

Very sorry to hear about your fish man...that sux! heres some ideas

Do you have a UV sterilizer and/or ozonizer? Maybe consider buying one if you dont. You can plumb them to basically be plug-n-play w/ ball valves. If they are eating then I would soak some fresh seafood/algae chum blenderized soaked in zoecon/selcon and some garlic extract. Do not feed them unless it has these soaked in them, restrictive controlled feeding can induce very quick eating responses thus the vitamins and garlic have less time to dilute out of the foods and into the water column, therefore better results in the fish consumption of the vitamins and garlic.

[prow]

i too am sorry to hear it.

hyposalinity is the best thing to rid the tank of ich but to help the fish out raise the temp to 82+ degrees F. this will speed up the ich life cycle should help reduce the amount of ich getting on the fish.good luck bro.