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Wondering if anyone has seen this before. I have a Carpenter's wrasse and Royal Gramma in QT, both have been through Prazi and are on day 10 of Cupramine. I brought the Cupramine up very slowly to .5 and both showed no adverse affects to it. However, I did a 30% water change 2 days ago and brought the Cupramine back up to .5, and the wrasse looked like it was gone. It was lying on the bottom of the tank most of the day and refused to eat. I am using the Seachem copper test kit and it might have been a tad over .5 so I did a 10% water change to bring it between .45 and .5. The next day the wrasse's condition began to improve and he began eating. However, he had these strange white stripes down one side of his body and he looked pale. The stripes looked almost too organized to be a bacteria infection but I'm not positive. Today the wrasse is 100% back to normal, eating well and has full color back with no signs of the stripes. Should I treat both with Kanaplex after finishing Cupramine for safe measure or can this happen to a wrasse when they are stressed? I just really hate to treat unnecessarily but don't want him in my DT with problems (even though these are the first 2 fish). Also, 0 ammonia, monitoring with ammonia alert.