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Maroon clown got ich today, bought a 20G QT, heater, filter and some herbatana. Should I start with hyposalinity (+ freshwater bath?) or start with chemical treatment (copper, herbatana, paraguard)? Please let me know exactly what I should do. And how long should I starve the DT, 45 days?
 

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You are definitely trending right...

be prepared for a varied amount of good advice. I like copper, but get some Cuprisorb regardless and a good copper test kit. What did you mean by starving the DT? You mean letting it go fallow/fishless?
I thought the time was 72 days? Help :D
 

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Fallow 72-76 days for the highest degree of success.
Forget the freshwater bath if you go Hypo, at 1.009....your pretty much there...
You can move fish from higher salinity to Hypo quickly, but real slow in reverse, .001 per day...
Takes about 21 days...
 
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