stressed fish

[Topher]

What do you think is more stressful? Tank temp going up a few degrees for a day or so, or lowering the spg of the water to unnatural levels for a month or more. Seems to me that a change in water temp is a lot more natural and in turn a lot less stressful on the fish.

 

[Anonymous]

What's your point?

If you are referring to a treatment for ich - one is an effective (and safe) way to treat ich; the other isn't effective.

[ March 20, 2002: Message edited by: slk3599 ]</p>

 

[Topher]

That is just my point! one workes and the other in the hands of a novice will kill fish. It will just take a month to rob the life out of the fish. Salt water with a spg 1.023has more buoyancy than hyposalinitie water, thus the fish floats and requires less effort to live and move about. Saving energy and allowing the fish to ward off the infection. The ick also has the same problem trying to swim in water that is not native so it dies. However if the fish is given the proper care as if it was still living on the reef it would migrate to warmer water to remove the parasite. The parasite cannot live in warm water and dies. Raising tank temp is far more effecitive at removing the parasite with less fish loss than hyposalanity. Why does everyone want to go against nature? Has any one read what the experts wright? If hyposalinity was so good then we should all keep our saltwater fish in brackish water.

 

[Anonymous]

Actually, if you read what the experts write you will find you are incorrect. Do a search for hyposalinity treatment and you will find probably one of the top experts on treating ich, TerryB. There are only 2 methods of eradicating the parasite, copper and hyposalinity. As far as the SG you are talking about, at what temperature is that? SG is temperature dependent. The tenperature you quoted is just about the perfect temperature for "ich" to proliferate/ HTH

 

[slojmn1]

There are some threads where Terry B. sites research papers and top scientists in the field that are very knowledgeable about ich. Hypo is the preference for treatment. I don't think hyposalinity is all that difficult. It takes aome time and a refractometer, you also have to be very careful about ammonia and nitrite in a hospital tank.

But in the end...to each his/her own.

 

[Anemone]

To further support what the others have said - raising the temperature does not kill the ich parasite. It does speed up the life cycle, allowing other treatments to be more effective.

Kevin