Mistake with SG - is this okay?

[mrgreen]

My SG has been steadily 1.008 in my F8 tank. Well, I"ve been doing so many water changes lately with treating for ich, but no problems until tonight. I know I should wait a bit before testing, and I will retest tomorrow, but right now it reads 1.010. That's not more that .002 a week, but the fish will be okay? I know they are used to changes in salinity but I'd thought that their limit was 1.008.

[Pufferpunk]

It's fine.

[mrgreen]

Thanks.

Kind of on the same topic, my silver scats are acting strange, now. Gasping and swimming un-coordinated. I'm thinking maybe sustained temps at 86 are doing them in. They are fed well enough.

[Pufferpunk]

Enough O2 exchange in there?

[mrgreen]

I have a bubble bar going in there like mad- its about as long as the tank is wide. The puffs are doing just fine. I'm thinking now that I watch more they aren't too great in current. Water flow is pretty strong.

[Iliveinazoo]

Thanks.

Kind of on the same topic, my silver scats are acting strange, now. Gasping and swimming un-coordinated. I'm thinking maybe sustained temps at 86 are doing them in. They are fed well enough.

why's your temp so high?

[bazil323]

Note:

treating for ich

I'm assuming the temp is up for the ich since that's a common treatment.

[mrgreen]

Yes, that's why its up. Ich treatment.

[BeachORama]

Boy, these hydrometers really are "finicky."

Any bubble inside will throw it off.

I need to check my at least 5 times and take the median reading.

Will be getting a refractometer when I can.

[mrgreen]

Boy, these hydrometers really are "finicky."

Any bubble inside will throw it off.

I need to check my at least 5 times and take the median reading.

Will be getting a refractometer when I can.

They are way better than the floating kind.

I just dunk my hydrometer in the water and jiggle it a bit so the bubbles float out before I take it out of the water.