Emperor Angel with velvet
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@iamurri33 Good job! 
Assuming you are using Cupramine, you will want to hold the level @ 0.5 ppm for 4 weeks. Fallow period for velvet (in your DT) is 6 weeks, but I personally would go fallow for 76 days just in case ich is also in the system.
Moving forward, you will want to closely monitor ammonia in all the QTs. That can kill fish just as quickly as velvet. When you do a WC, mix the appropriate amount of Cupramine to the freshly mixed SW in the bucket before adding to the QT. The objective here is to ensure the therapeutic level of copper never drops below 0.5 at any given time (very important as you never know what stage of velvet is currently active in your QT.)
Assuming you are using Cupramine, you will want to hold the level @ 0.5 ppm for 4 weeks. Fallow period for velvet (in your DT) is 6 weeks, but I personally would go fallow for 76 days just in case ich is also in the system.Moving forward, you will want to closely monitor ammonia in all the QTs. That can kill fish just as quickly as velvet. When you do a WC, mix the appropriate amount of Cupramine to the freshly mixed SW in the bucket before adding to the QT. The objective here is to ensure the therapeutic level of copper never drops below 0.5 at any given time (very important as you never know what stage of velvet is currently active in your QT.)
Exactly. Hold the line at 0.5 ppm in your QTs. To keep it simple, add 20 drops of Cupramine per 5 gallons of water when doing water changes. So, that's 60 drops for a 15 gal WC. You have to remember that Cupramine's instructions on the bottle tells you to dose once, wait 48 hrs and then dose again; so you have to double that first day dosage when doing water changes. Makes sense?
That should be fine. But get either a Seachem or Salifert copper test ASAP so you can start measuring the Cu level. Cupramine's instructions tend to sometimes be on the low side.
Brian Kim
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It's 20 drops to get to .25 so you need to double that in order to get to .5
^^ This. If you haven't done so already, do the second dosage to get it up to 0.5 ppm. There's no time to play it safe when dealing with velvet.
Brian Kim
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I thought you already dosed enough to get to 0.5 in this case do it all at once to get to 0.5 when you are doing W/C and like Humble fish quoted, mix copper before you put in your QT tank
Brian Kim
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Correct.
Brian Kim
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You know what's weird? My copper level are always low even at recommended dosage. I am assuming those 2 pieces of tiny live rocks and Matrix inside HOB are absorbing some of it
Brian Kim
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Let me ask you something, did you already have saltwater mix when you started out your hospital tank or are you using tap water along with water conditioner?
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