Jay and others,
First of all, I want to THANK YOU for the amazing and extremely useful information that you have shared on this thread. I have read all 12 pages and I surely learned a lot about QT.
I'm super new to the hobby, and while I can't keep using that as an excuse, there's just a lot of things that I don't know yet and by reading this thread I realized that I might have made some mistakes.
I'm setting up my very first saltwater tank but it's not ready yet. However, in the meantime I started last week a QT tank (17.7 gals) with a Tidal 55 HOB. I used Bio-Spira and put four 2" MarinePure cubes in the HOB. I left the sponge that came with the HOB and just added today a Tidal polishing pad. I got 2 clownfish from my LFS last week and put them in my QT tank. In my defense, the instructions on the Bio-Spira bottle say that after pouring the content, your tank is ready and you can put fish right away. Before adding the Bio-Spira, I added just a few drops (the recommended dose) of Prime. I have a RODI system, but I didn't know that adding Prime could cause any problems with medications. I have a few questions:
1. I have a bottle of Copper Power that I want to use, but I'm waiting for my Hanna Copper HR checker to be delivered to begin the treatment (my fish look healthy and are eating well, but still want to do the copper treatment) . Given that I treated the water with prime, should I refrain from adding the Copper Power?
2. I topped off my tank today and added a couple of Prime drops to treat the water before I added it to the tank. Should I maybe just wait a few days before I start adding Copper Power?
3. It wasn't clear to me what are the safe alternatives to Prime. Should I simply use RODI and nothing else if I plan to put copper on my QT tank?
4. Should I remove the cubes from the HOB and put the Matrix instead, or is it safe to keep the MarinePure cubes even when I plan to use copper (or any other medication for that matter) ? Someone on this thread mentioned Matrix does not absorbs Copper
TIA for the help!
First of all, I want to THANK YOU for the amazing and extremely useful information that you have shared on this thread. I have read all 12 pages and I surely learned a lot about QT.
I'm super new to the hobby, and while I can't keep using that as an excuse, there's just a lot of things that I don't know yet and by reading this thread I realized that I might have made some mistakes.
I'm setting up my very first saltwater tank but it's not ready yet. However, in the meantime I started last week a QT tank (17.7 gals) with a Tidal 55 HOB. I used Bio-Spira and put four 2" MarinePure cubes in the HOB. I left the sponge that came with the HOB and just added today a Tidal polishing pad. I got 2 clownfish from my LFS last week and put them in my QT tank. In my defense, the instructions on the Bio-Spira bottle say that after pouring the content, your tank is ready and you can put fish right away. Before adding the Bio-Spira, I added just a few drops (the recommended dose) of Prime. I have a RODI system, but I didn't know that adding Prime could cause any problems with medications. I have a few questions:
1. I have a bottle of Copper Power that I want to use, but I'm waiting for my Hanna Copper HR checker to be delivered to begin the treatment (my fish look healthy and are eating well, but still want to do the copper treatment) . Given that I treated the water with prime, should I refrain from adding the Copper Power?
2. I topped off my tank today and added a couple of Prime drops to treat the water before I added it to the tank. Should I maybe just wait a few days before I start adding Copper Power?
3. It wasn't clear to me what are the safe alternatives to Prime. Should I simply use RODI and nothing else if I plan to put copper on my QT tank?
4. Should I remove the cubes from the HOB and put the Matrix instead, or is it safe to keep the MarinePure cubes even when I plan to use copper (or any other medication for that matter) ? Someone on this thread mentioned Matrix does not absorbs Copper
TIA for the help!