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DT water isn't a cross contamination concern?
No, adding DT seeded filtration is not either.
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DT water isn't a cross contamination concern?
adding DT seeded filtration is not either
DT water isn't a cross contamination concern?
id assume its to clean off any copper contaminates or disease that fell offI'm definitely no expert - but I guess there are two factors I can think of here. You're going to be putting that fish in the DT eventually anyway, and in theory you've QT'd everything so the DT should be good. And two - you're probably treating the new fish with prazi and maybe copper anyway.
My question is - what do people do with all the used bio media? Throw it away?
Also - what's the point of sterilizing the QT between fish if you've deemed the fish healthy enough for the DT? Wouldn't anything that's in that QT now also be in that fish? If you've treated/watched/whatever the QT then why nuke it?
Yep.If one has run copper in a QT tank, can that tank later be used as maybe a frag tank if the tank is cleaned properly?
Yep.
Yep.
Perfect. That helps me a ton. Then the tank can really be multipurpose and perpetual.
There is definitely different thoughts on this. I would never put inverts in a tank that ever had copper. Copper is known to soak into material and leech out over time. I think cupramine is better at not doing this? Not sure on that.
If you are going to do that I would let the tank sit with water for a good month and test for Cu and see if anything is still leeching out.
That's some good advice. Is there any data on this anywhere? Would be stellar if someone tested this in order to change a theory into fact. I could see it being an issue with rock or other media, maybe even pvc. I wonder if a bare tank could leech any previous copper.
Good to know. I'm glad I don't have to discover this one the hard way.
I’ll retract some here. I believe you can use the tank itself. That’s what I thought you meant. I wouldn’t transfer anything else like filter media, etc. from a quarantine tank with copper into a frag tank later.Good to know. I'm glad I don't have to discover this one the hard way.