Current Quarantine Protocol

[Jay Hemdal]

Im not asking to cut QT short, im just saying given certain fish are sensitive to copper is there any drawbacks to easing into copper over a period of 2 to 3 days rather than hitting 2.25ppm in under 24 hours.

If you are using amine chelated copper, you don’t need to ramp up slowly, that’s old advice from using ionic copper.

You just need to add it in controlled portions in order to reach a proper dose - that takes most folks 24 hours.

LFS acclimate fish right into full copper all the time.

 

[EricR]

This is probably a silly question and may have been covered before but couldn't find it so...

What's the longest the "free swimming" stage of ich/velvet/brook/other? could live on a dry surface?

I'm thinking in terms of equipment, like conductivity probe that you use in QT, then rinse with freshwater and dry, then want to put back into normal (non-QT) use.
*dry out is likely critical but then are we talking minutes/hours or is there some survival method whereby some infectious parasite could still be problematic longer than that?

EDIT -- my question relates to fishless, invert QT so no chance (I think) of tomonts/trophonts on the equipment in question