- A month ago, i bought two clowns and put them in QT. The next day, one clown started head twitching. Its condition was same and it died a week later after i decided to dip him in paraguard. The other clown is fine and has graduated to the DT. Today i visited the LFS i bought from and I asked him. he seemed defensive that his clown was healthy cz it had been there for 2 weeks and kinda blamed it on my acclimation procedure. I had always matched the salinity, temp and then releasing it. This was my 1st experience with a hypo QT and looking back, i should have approached hypo differently.. Basically, the clowns were introduced from SG at LFS at 1.020 to 1.009 in QT immediately after temperature matching.
- I understand this may lead to osmotic shock. Hence, i would like to know if head twitching is a symptom of osmotic shock or disease?
- What are the symptoms unique to osmotic shock?
- Also, if i would like to do hypo on qt, how much can its safe to drop over a day. The following is from Humblefish Hyposalinity thread -"Over a period of 48 hours, gradually lower the SG down to 1.009" . Does it mean over the Next 48 hours or after few days?