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Copper only for 30 days then.
Should I use the cupramine I have or go pickup some coppersafe?
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Copper only for 30 days then.
Should I use the cupramine I have or go pickup some coppersafe?
I personally prefer Coppersafe, but Cupramine works too if you maintain 0.5 mg/L for 30 days. I think many Cupramine failures are due to people skirting the minimum therapeutic level too closely. 0.5 gives you some wiggle room in case it suddenly drops.
I picked up some coppersafe and started treatment. I don't see much change.
I picked up an API test since it's the only one I found locally and it says I'm right over .5 mg/l.
Should i just leave that alone?
I picked up some coppersafe and started treatment. I don't see much change.
I picked up an API test since it's the only one I found locally and it says I'm right over .5 mg/l.
Should i just leave that alone?
Ok, so if the recommended dose on the bottle put me at .07, then I should do at least another full dose?
I went to this when i started to this hobby five years ago, I have same mates of fishes as you do. When tangs and clowns together in a poor unstable water parameters this always happened, ether one will start the problem. I used Paraguard from Seachem (www.seachem.com/paraguard.php) works great for me without harmful effect on my inverts and some corals that i have those days.
Just follow the instruction and do a 20% water change every three days until everything back to normal. Run a UV sterilizer to kill the free floating parasites at the same time. Taking care two or more hippo tangs needs a huge filtration system to keep them healthy, then adding a cleaner shimp will help them a lot. Hippo tangs always hungry and poop like a duck, they will nip on soft corals when nothing to eat. i feed mine 4X a day.
I'm testing copper levels with a Salifert and API and getting different readings... which should I trust?
Also, my yellow Tang has developed Popeye. Can I dose anti bacterial along with the coppersafe?
When dosing Coppersafe, use the API test kit.
You can dose antibiotics in conjunction w/Coppersafe.
But is the Popeye in one eye or both?
One is worse than the other but they both have it.
That's a bacterial infection starting up then.
I advise dosing antibiotics (preferably erythromycin + minocycline) to combat it: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/antibiotics.283711/
I started the bacterial treatment, he was dead this morning... :/
The earlier photos were almost certainly velvet. That is ich on the fish, potentially velvet as well if I look closely.
Be sure to look read the test from the top, not the side. That looks like a combination of ich and velvet almost. Though, I'm still certain velvet is in play here.
If it's still there, then we have to look at your QT practices. When you do a water change are you adding copper the new water before adding it to the QT? Have you used any equipment at all in other tanks and this one? Even just a turkey baster or spoon when feeding? Wet hands going from one tank to another? Is this tank within 10 feet of any other tanks?