So I’m a bit stumped at the moment. I have several predators in my tank and this weekend I was sent to the ER. When I got home about 48 hours later my tank was hit with Ich. The only one who seems to be affected was my lionfish. I am not a fan of chemicals and am aware of the harm that can be caused with copper so I decided to go a more natural route. I am currently doing a hyposalinity and have done a freshwater dip on him as well. I brought my temps up to 89.7 the first day and dropping it 1 degree every day after. I’m down to 85.5 and going to keep it here for the next 3 days but then will keep going to i go back to my normal temp of 77. and my salinity is 1.016 which is still high in my opinion for a hypo but is down from my normal 1.024. The good news is he seems to look much better than a few days ago and is more active. However he doesn’t seem interested in food which can be due to a variety of reason such as the stress or hopefully not my could be from internal parasites but the big thing I noticed this morning is one of his eyes has become quite cloudy. All my parameters meet my standard and have taken it to my shop for a second test to double check. I haven’t moved him to a quarantine tank because I new the ich would still live within my tank and could still infect the rest of the tank and would rather starve it’s source out. I tried taking pictures but with my bowtank it doesn’t look like anything is wrong with him. Any ideas weather it be a secondary parasite or maybe just the start to a shedding cycle?
ammonia 0
NO2 0
NO3 0.17
PH 8.1
ammonia 0
NO2 0
NO3 0.17
PH 8.1
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