The Puffer Forum

Hi folks,

Im in process of doing hypo treatment for my newly aqquired marine fish. Everything was going well until I bought the porc puffer, he was fine when he arrived but after 4/5 days of barely eating the ick appeared.

Would it be safe to still dose vit-c in the QT?

Thanks!

Only is there is a skimmer on there.

Pufferpunk wrote:Only is there is a skimmer on there.

Thanks for your reply. Ive been trying to find out if baking soda is needed during hypo, do you know what is the lowest ph fish can handle or maybe better question would be what ph would be ideal for them during hypo treatment?

Well this sucks the red stripe angelfish has passed away lying on the bottom of tank. No marks, bites anything. Just checked the water parameters :

Ph 8.2
Amm 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 10

Salinity at 1.014 done in 24hours from 1.020. All the rest of fish are fine but so was the red stripe night before eating away with no problems.
I wonder if I have done something wrong here or are they just more delicate. I have a coral beauty angel and majestic angel which I paid 180usd for and Iam worried they
will pass away too once i drop the salinity down to 1.009, any advice?

I've done hypo before and I used baked baking soda (350F in the over for 30 minutes). It makes it into a more potent buffer to adjust pH in hypo. The skimmer wouldn't work in hypo. I didn't have a problem with hypo itself except that it does not kill marine velvet (the fish had both ich and velvet). By the time that I brought the fish out of hypo and started to use cupramine, I had lost some fish (velvet sucks and kills fast). I did treat the remaining fish successfully and they are ich and velvet free to this day. Some fish aren't sensitive to the hypo treatment, but more to the disease that is affecting them. Good luck and sorry for your loss.