LFS mistreating livestock?

[SquidwardTentacles05]

I got five green chromis, one royal gramma and one rock flower anemone from my LFS. When I tested the salinity in their bags, it gave a reading of 26ppt(1.019). The lowest acceptable salinity was 30ppt according to the internet. Have any of you guys seen fish stores that keep their livestock in suck low salinities?

 

[Reefing102]

That’s common in my experience. It helps to moderate disease (not sure if that’s the proper term)

 

[afboundguy]

I got five green chromis, one royal gramma and one rock flower anemone from my LFS. When I tested the salinity in their bags, it gave a reading of 26ppt(1.019). The lowest acceptable salinity was 30ppt according to the internet. Have any of you guys seen fish stores that keep their livestock in suck low salinities?

This is totally acceptable in fish only systems. Keeping the salinity lower helps with disease and health. This is a very rudimentary way of explaining it but fish have to push out the salt from their bodies as it goes from highest concentration (the water) to lowest concentration (their bodies) and the lower the salinity the easier it is for their bodies to do it so it's less of a strain on their immune system.

Many reefers do a FW dip for a few minutes with reef fish as part of the acclimation/QT process and most QT systems are fish only and are lower salinity to ward off ich and other parasites that can't survive the lower salinity levels....

That’s common in my experience. It helps to moderate disease (not sure if that’s the proper term)

Hyposalinity

 

[larrysaltisfun]

I am no expert, but it does also potentially hide ICH and other diseases I believe the fish medics have stated that it may slow down reproduction of parasites, but it does not control them in anyway, and you might buy a fish looking perfectly healthy then it shows obvious signs of the parasites once you get home and put it into seawater salinity.

 

[SquidwardTentacles05]

This is totally acceptable in fish only systems. Keeping the salinity lower helps with disease and health. This is a very rudimentary way of explaining it but fish have to push out the salt from their bodies as it goes from highest concentration (the water) to lowest concentration (their bodies) and the lower the salinity the easier it is for their bodies to do it so it's less of a strain on their immune system.

Many reefers do a FW dip for a few minutes with reef fish as part of the acclimation/QT process and most QT systems are fish only and are lower salinity to ward off ich and other parasites that can't survive the lower salinity levels....

Hyposalinity

Should I use hyposalinity treatment on starfish, my red linckia has been loosing its arms.

 

[afboundguy]

Should I use hyposalinity treatment on starfish, my red linckia has been loosing its arms.

I believe it's only for fish and hyposalinity would do more harm than good to inverts.