cupramine

[redrocket829]

looking for some help as i have asked lots of people and most people say yes and no to cupramine in main tank setup to treat ick.
most say don't do it never get it out some say its possible to get it out from the tank.
cupramine seachem customer service is telling me yes %100 can be removed with like carbon and CupriSorb from rocks and sand.
some say no live rock and sand will need to replace out then you will be good as it will not stick to glass.
some say pumps powerheads will still have copper in them and there never going to remove it. no more corals and inverts i can put in the system.
just wanted to see if people have actually put it and still be able to add inverts and corals and to grown them for years to come.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

It depends a bit on how long the tank was dosed. You can facilitate getting it out of the tank by filling the tank with FW and dropping the pH. This causes any bound copper to go back into solution, then you just dump the FW and repeat until no more copper leaches out....of course, your LR will no longer be live....
Jay

 

[redrocket829]

There was about 13ml of copper that was put in the tank live rock and sand not a big deal as I was going to swap it out to be safe just more worried about it on the pumps and skimmer and sump

 

[SourAngelfish]

looking for some help as i have asked lots of people and most people say yes and no to cupramine in main tank setup to treat ick.
most say don't do it never get it out some say its possible to get it out from the tank.
cupramine seachem customer service is telling me yes %100 can be removed with like carbon and CupriSorb from rocks and sand.
some say no live rock and sand will need to replace out then you will be good as it will not stick to glass.
some say pumps powerheads will still have copper in them and there never going to remove it. no more corals and inverts i can put in the system.
just wanted to see if people have actually put it and still be able to add inverts and corals and to grown them for years to come.

I’m going to be dosing in my display with Cupramine and from what I’ve read, yes it can be removed and you can keep an extra bag of cuprisorb in the sump to remove any stray copper that leaches over time

 

[SourAngelfish]

Just messaged seachem and they sent me this nice little chart

 

[SourAngelfish]

They said leaving a bag of cuprisorb 2 weeks after a test of 0 copper should eliminate it

 

[Jay Hemdal]

They said leaving a bag of cuprisorb 2 weeks after a test of 0 copper should eliminate it

The trouble is if there is copper bound up in calcified material, and then there is a pH drop, that copper can come back out into solution....
Jay

 

[SourAngelfish]

The trouble is if there is copper bound up in calcified material, and then there is a pH drop, that copper can come back out into solution....
Jay

Makes sense, but it would be fine if you removed the cuprisorb right?

 

[PatW]

I would remove rock and sand and have the tank bars filled with fresh water. I would add muriatic acid and let it sit a couple of days. If you have exposed powerheads, do them also. I would dilute the acid outside about 10 to 1 before bringing it inside and add that to the tank. A tenth of a percent should be fine. To test, add salt water and add a few cheap inverts and see if they survive a few weeks. I think this should work but I have not tried it.