What fish do not tolerate hypo salinity? Need help

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I lost a candy hogfish, royal gramma, and a YT in 2 different QT tank. When i brought them home i acclimated them slowly over the course of at least 3+hrs to 1.09 salinity please helppppp!
 
I think some wrasses and the Copperband Butterfly fish don't do so well in hypo. @Humblefish @Big G do either have a list of fish that cannot tolerate hypo?
 
I lost a candy hogfish, royal gramma, and a YT in 2 different QT tank. When i brought them home i acclimated them slowly over the course of at least 3+hrs to 1.09 salinity please helppppp!

What was the starting salinity? You need to take a lot longer than 3 hours to drop most fish down into 1.009.
 
I forgot to check the salinity in the bag. The YT was doing fine , ate for about 5 days. The other dint eat and lasted about 3 days.
 
Well according to alot of people online, its ok to lower salinity in a short period of time but to increase salinity it must be done gradually. I was going off of that and thought itd be safe and dint look into ph :(
 

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