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    MI is winning the fight! Help!

    Okay so I am a saltwater beginner and am loosing fish. So one day white spots show up on my orange shoulder tang. The fish store sold me a cleaner shrimp and a cleaner wrasse. I did some research and found this is not going to help. I did some research and set up a hospital tank but by the time I got it set up I lost my orange shoulder. I noticed my sail fin was looking spotty. I got the tank set up and caught everyone and acclimated them to the hospital tank. I am using the method of low salinity.

    So today I lost one of my clown fish and a coral beauty angel. I have the temp at 78 degrees and the salinity at 1.010 on the hydrometer. This is what I have read to do. Is my salt too low? could it just have been stress or not a good enough acclimation? I moved them Sunday Morning. My tang looks better and the other clownfish, wrasse, and gobi seem to be okay.

    I just want to check and make sure I am doing this correctly. I have the reef tank still set up and going with no fish now in the other room. I figure I should leave it for 4weeks? Any info is much appreciated.

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    Re: MI is winning the fight! Help!

    I'd leave the DT alone for 6 weeks. And sounds as if you have everything under control. I would not check my salinity with a Hydrometer though. Just me though, they are not very accurate. But other than that, your right on the mark.
    The loss of your other fish may have been due to acclimation or just flat out stress.


 

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