Anyone have a good way to dose cupramine for ich

[NowGlazeIT]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-and-treatment-guidelines-with-chart.283450/

 

[4FordFamily]

So I have live bacteria in a bottle a biocube29 for the qt bio sphere and sponges .
I can’t seed from my old tank because it is not disease free. you guys are currently part of a total restart button im hitting for my tank. I just finished up setting up a brand new 60g cube stocked with
2 fire fish
1 purple fire fish
1 white belly Wrasse
1 harptail blenny
1 electric maroon
1 cleaner shrimp
And various lps glued to the aquascape

Now around Christmas Eve I noticed what may have been white stringy poop Right there is when I started to research, since then I’ve decided to expand my commitment to this hobby and my livestock. simply put I don’t want to throw anymore money into something and just Hope that it’s not all going to go down the drain one day.

And as @brandon429 put it. I don’t want to wonder what’s going to happen. I want to command what happens next in my reef tank!

With white stringy poo you’ll want to soak food in seachem focus and metroplex. I do one part metroplex to one part focus but I don’t think you need quite that much focus — focus simply binds metroplex to the food so it can treat your fish’s digestive system with metroplex

 

[NowGlazeIT]

With white stringy poo you’ll want to soak food in seachem focus and metroplex. I do one part metroplex to one part focus but I don’t think you need quite that much focus — focus simply binds metroplex to the food so it can treat your fish’s digestive system with metroplex

Okay that’s a pro tip with using focus thank you. I have not seen white stringy poo since so I’m just going to treat this like they’re all brand new fat healthy fish from the store because I’ve had them in my dt for almost 3 months and I’ve been feeding 4 small meals a day since. My wife bought me a mandarin from biota for Christmas and that’s really when it dawned on me that i really haven’t been taking QT seriously. This isn’t just a single clown fish and some anemones for me anymore

 

[Instigate]

With white stringy poo you’ll want to soak food in seachem focus and metroplex. I do one part metroplex to one part focus but I don’t think you need quite that much focus — focus simply binds metroplex to the food so it can treat your fish’s digestive system with metroplex

Is there a reason you use metro instead of GC? There are some internal parasites that are resistant to metro right?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

The manderin is on hold as of now Till I finish setting up two different 10g for the TTM

 

[Instigate]

The manderin is on hold as of now Till I finish setting up two different 10g for the TTM

You got some pods on order too? Going to need to dose pods on a regular basis.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

You got some pods on order too? Going to need to dose pods on a regular basis.

No these are from biota I’ve been in contact with Kevin Gaines he’s the founder and he’s informed me of their current diet which is mainly cyclops from Vo2 so I was able to stock up in advance

 

[Instigate]

No these are from biota I’ve been in contact with Kevin Gaines he’s the founder and he’s informed me of theirs current diet which is mainly cyclops from Vo2 so I was able to stock up in advance

Oh nice! Let us know how it goes.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Oh nice! Let us know how it goes.

You got it! and same with your clowns dude! What test kit did you grab to measure copper

 

[Instigate]

You got it! and same with your clowns dude! What test kit did you grab to measure copper

Im not the OP. But here is the info thread on copper tests. It depends on what kind of copper you're using.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/copper-test-kits.257924/

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Im not the OP.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/copper-test-kits.257924/

Oh woops!

 

[NowGlazeIT]

@johnsamm7 what kind of copper test are you going to use

 

[4FordFamily]

Is there a reason you use metro instead of GC? There are some internal parasites that are resistant to metro right?

Metro is better for soaking food, more experience with it.

General cure is better utilized in the water column, which is less effective for internal parasites typically.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Metro is better for soaking food, more experience with it.

General cure is better utilized in the water column, which is less effective for internal parasites typically.

Thnk you for addressing this subject. this is still a grey area for those just starting to research

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Day one has begun guys!

when to start copper?

 

[johnsamm7]

Sorry my work schedule is crazy just caught up I am using seachem copper test kits with cupramine I will start slowly dosing today I have a 8 gal nuvo I believe it's somewhere around 6 gal of water in the tank so what would you guys recommend I start dosing to slowly bring the copper up over the next 5 days or so

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Sorry my work schedule is crazy just caught up I am using seachem copper test kits with cupramine I will start slowly dosing today I have a 8 gal nuvo I believe it's somewhere around 6 gal of water in the tank so what would you guys recommend I start dosing to slowly bring the copper up over the next 5 days or so

4fordfamily takes 3-5 to raise cupramine to therapeutic levels for hardy fish like clown fish

 

[johnsamm7]

Okay so per cupramine instructions it says 20 drops per 10.5 gallons so I'm basically cutting that in half and doing 2 drops for five days to reach therupedic levels if that sounds right just added my first two drops now

 

[NowGlazeIT]

from what I’ve read it’s not just wise to go slow but to go less then directed on the bottle and test to dose up when your close. But two drops dose seem like a good start I would just start to test after you think your about half way done

 

[4FordFamily]

Day one has begun guys!

when to start copper?

I wait until everyone is eating, or a few days, whichever is longer.