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thank you all, good to know this is common! How long shall I keep him in the sump? I know there are no guarantees if he will behave after adding him back, but I love this health convict and would like to give him a 2nd chance, specially coz he was doing pretty well during his 1st 50 days with...

thanks @Turkeysammich .. I just wanted to create this journal so that I can get advice from all the experienced folks here and also could go back to it in case things go south in next month or so of hypo! Who knows, 5 years down the line someone new to this forum looks at this journal and...

Do you think changing the lighting schedule might have triggered this? nothing else changed.. well, I guess Hypo in itself is a big change for the fish which might have triggered this as well. Didnt move aqua-scape, add/remove any fish recently (until today when trying to catch the convict!)

Hypo (Day 8): All fish look ok, very few spots still seen on the clown and I just noticed one other cardinal has 1 cloudy eye.. usually infection is in both eyes, so I am unsure if its due to an injury or flukes/ich.. Will wait and watch.. In last couple of days I saw a bump in Ammonia...

Thanks @Coral reefer .. with due respect, I hope you are wrong this time :cool:

Thanks @Coral reefer for your reflection on this method.. Just wondering when you say that, is it coz of 1st hand experience doing this, 2nd hand experience hearing about someone else doing this OR just statistical guess? Also, do you believe going fallow for 72 days is the only way to get rid...

Hypo (Day 6): Happy thanksgiving y'all! Blue tang looks really good today, swimming like old days before it caught ich, eating everything from water column, eye issue seems to be resolved as well.. I still see a very few spots on Clowns and some scratching from blenny and convict.. White spots...

Hypo (Day 4): Clowns look much better, with lesser white spots than yesterday.. Blue tang finally coming out more in the open, still struggling to eat from the water column, right eye has a larger layer of mucus, as I could see today when it came out in the open, which might be impacting its...

I see 2 of those in the pic, maybe cleaner or some other sort of wrasses

Hypo (Day 3): Cardinal doesnt have cloudy eye anymore and very minimal white spots.. Clowns still seem to have similar (or maybe a little more?) number of white spots, but that stringy mucus seems to have reduced.. Blue tang still struggling to see, always faces me and the food with the same...

love the guide and checklist before getting new livestock! thanks @MichaelB

Hypo (Day 2): I see cardinal fish has lesser spots and eye look much better too.. I see Blue tang's eye is still cloudy and feels like its impacting its vision as I could see it try to bite nori from 1-2 cms away.. It is still not its bubbly self and hiding more.. but hvnt seen any scratching...

thanks Michael, yes ideally ALL new additions should be QTed, but how many people (specially the successful and experienced ones here including you) actually QT inverts and corals is the real question.. maybe a poll will be helpful :)

thanks @PjFish you always have some solid points.. Yeah, there is a possibility that there may still be some flukes/ich that are hypo-resistant but heard thats rare.. I hope thats not the case with me.. Well, even if it is, I am not tired of trying and learning new things.. will fix it when it...

Yep, that’s my source! There are 2 articles I followed, 1 by HumbleFish and another one by Jay on R2R.. and then searched the internet and talked to GPT to find what works best.. the 2 articles mostly overlap, except minor differences

thanks much for the offer @MichaelB.. I do have 2 salinity meters, but guess another check wont hurt just to be sure.. I read about TM hydrometer being the most accurate.. I will sync up with you offline to pick that up for a month or 2 (bringing up salinity is going to be another challenging...

yes, I tried Copper Power at 2.25 in a Hospital tank for 21 days on Blue tang and 2 clowns and then moved them back to DT, but a couple of days later white spots reappeared implying ich has to be eliminated from DT basically, hence trying Hypo in DT now.. also getting UV which may help long term

Thanks @Turkeysammich.. I dont have any inverts and very few corals that I moved to another smaller tank which is easier than moving all the fish and going fallow for more than 2 months.. yes, constantly checking ammonia and salinity, pH also reduces coz RODI water has lower pH than...

I created a thread not that long ago talking about my struggles with white spots on fish which I initially thought were mucus cones and thought will subside once the stressor goes away.. There were a few members here who correctly escalated the problem but it wasnt until I lost my PBT to it...

thanks guys, yes I understand it wont fix the issue, I just want to manage ich and algae problems long term