Emergency QT Help

[Saltine]

So I've come to the conclusion I have Velvet in my DT. Lost my first fish 2 days ago then one a day, so I setup an emergency QT today. Display is a 58g, QT is 10g. I have plastic rocks and I put a piece of Live Rock from my display into the QT (From my sump, probably trashing after this) Moved 1 fire fish and 2 clown from DT, to 5 min. fresh water bath then 45-60 min formalin bath. Fish were in QT for about an hour and I had ammonia registering, did a 50% water changed, didn't seem to help. Added 1 ml of prime, but says it will reduce ammonia and heavy metals. I was trying to bring up the Copper to 1.5-2.0 but it was only at 1.0 for now.

Should i continue to monitor ammonia and add prime as necessary? Then once the ammonia is under control start dosing CopperSafe again?

I just threw 4 marine pure balls into the QT to try and help seed it.

@Humblefish
@melypr1985

Thanks,
Salt

 

[Saltine]

After dosing prime ammonia seems to have dissipated, still need to add 2 chromis and a yellow tang to the QT. Should I wait?

Salt

 

[TheEngineer]

Don't mix prime and copper!!

 

[TheEngineer]

How are you testing for ammonia? Have you confirmed the test is accurate?

Sounds like you are following @Humblefish 's velvet treatment. Good plan!

 

[Saltine]

How are you testing for ammonia? Have you confirmed the test is accurate?

Sounds like you are following @Humblefish 's velvet treatment. Good plan!

To the "T", testing using an API test.

 

[Tahoe61]

Live rock is going to absorb medication. Are you using an ammonia badge or an API test kit?

 

[TheEngineer]

To the "T", testing using an API test.

How did you confirm the test result?

 

[Saltine]

Don't mix prime and copper!!

Oh great, just saw this, I did, so what now? Don't do it anymore?

Salt

 

[Saltine]

Live rock is going to absorb medication. Are you using an ammonia badge or an API test kit?

API, how do I get beneficial bacteria then? Or I just have to dose more copper to get it to the right levels?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

(From my sump, probably trashing after this)

no thats fine. good filter skews copper results.

 

[TheEngineer]

Oh great, just saw this, I did, so what now? Don't do it anymore?

Salt

Well definitely don't do it anymore

It might be OK if the amount of copper in there was low.

 

[Saltine]

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How are you testing for ammonia? Have you confirmed the test is accurate?

Sounds like you are following @Humblefish 's velvet treatment. Good plan!

I've got nothing to compare to right now.

 

[Saltine]

Well definitely don't do it anymore

It might be OK if the amount of copper in there was low.

Lol, It was below 1ppm. I did a 50% water change it it was like it did nothing, that's why i added the prime.

What's worse, mixing prime/copper or ammonia?

Thanks,
Salt

 

[TheEngineer]

Lol, It was below 1ppm. I did a 50% water change it it was like it did nothing, that's why i added the prime.

What's worse, mixing prime/copper or ammonia?

Thanks,
Salt

Uhhh... I have no idea. Lol.

You've got the experts tagged. One of them should know.

 

[Saltine]

Uhhh... I have no idea. Lol.

You've got the experts tagged. One of them should know.

Thanks for the responses! I still need to add a yellow tang and 2 chromis, not sure if it can handle the load :/. And a mandarin if I can find it, do you know if pods survive copper? How do I feed a mandarin that only eats pods? Put in some cheato from my sump (Have tons of it), let the pods die off and the mandarin will still eat them? Then just add cheato every few days?

Salt

 

[Saltine]

no thats fine. good filter skews copper results.

Thanks! Does this mean I still need to dose more copper until it reads the correct PPM or just leave it as I'm probably already at that level per the instructions, I've added 12ML, instructions say 10ML.

Thanks,
Salt

 

[Saltine]

Some pics

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thanks! Does this mean I still need to dose more copper until it reads the correct PPM or just leave it as I'm probably already at that level per the instructions, I've added 12ML, instructions say 10ML.

Thanks,
Salt

yes stand by for the experts. You doing good.

 

[Saltine]

 

[Brew12]

Having copper in your system will give you false positives on your ammonia test.

You need to get a Seachem alert ammonia badge to determine ammonia levels.

If you see ammonia on the badge, you need to do a water change and add a product like biospira (bacteria in a bottle) but not Prime!