Diagnosis on CBB

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

i have some sponges with bacteria on them that have been sitting for a month

Sitting out of water or running in your display tank?

 

[Jack_soho]

running in the display

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

running in the display

Those will help!

 

[W31Olds]

The "long style" Tanks are much better for QT as they provide more area to swim. Your CBB will be a difficult Fish to successfully get through Qt with a DT Fallow period. Treatment must begin ASAP as CCB's in prime condition are a challenge to get feeding.

 

[slingfox]

One tip form Marine Collectors on QT’ing Copperbands: Black out three sides of the tank. This helps keep the fish calmer and the Copperband from injuring its snout. I did this but buying glass blackout film on Amazon. It is very easy to put into the QT tank glass.

 

[winxp_man]

One tip form Marine Collectors on QT’ing Copperbands: Black out three sides of the tank. This helps keep the fish calmer and the Copperband from injuring its snout. I did this but buying glass blackout film on Amazon. It is very easy to put into the QT tank glass.

This is my protocol regardless of fish. Lost a Coral beauty, and a Tomini due to them freaking out in clear tanks and hitting the glass day two of QT. I black out two sides, back and bottom. When you clean the tank the panels they can see reflections in the bottom if your not using a tank mat it have the bottom blacked out, and they will also go into fight mode. Counterintuitive for running QT.