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So I did a total of three baths and transferred four times, copper the whole time. I think he is going to make it. Should I get him out of copper and run GC or can I run GC and copper at the same time? Thanks for your help!!
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by transfer. Are you doing TTM with copper? How many days have you been at full copper?
 
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I’m not sure I understand what you mean by transfer. Are you doing TTM with copper? How many days have you been at full copper?
Yeah it was a week with just copper and he wasn’t look good so I did formalin bath and transferred to new QT with copper. So it’s been two weeks of copper.
 

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So I did a total of three baths and transferred four times, copper the whole time. I think he is going to make it. Should I get him out of copper and run GC or can I run GC and copper at the same time? Thanks for your help!!
Great. Glad it worked. Give it a couple of more days in copper, then go GC. Feed with garlic in food and feed sparingly.
YOU HAVE A HIPPO TANG !!!
 
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I did have two live rocks in QT for the first week so maybe copper wasn’t right. I know for sure it’s been a week at full copper.
 
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Great. Glad it worked. Give it a couple of more days in copper, then go GC. Feed with garlic in food and feed sparingly.
YOU HAVE A HIPPO TANG !!!
Sounds good I just transferred this morning so I’ll give it 36 hours and transfer to new QT without copper and run GC.
 

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I did have two live rocks in QT for the first week so maybe copper wasn’t right. I know for sure it’s been a week at full copper.
Many consider 14 days as a comfortable minimum duration for velvet with copper at full therapeutic and then into a fresh QT to observe.
 
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Many consider 14 days as a comfortable minimum duration for velvet with copper at full therapeutic and then into a fresh QT to observe.
Ok I’ll consider the start of this thread day one. I’ll chill on the tank transfers and continue copper till next Tuesday. This little guy has cost me a lot of saltwater but velvet is something I don’t want in DT!!
 

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Great to hear he pulled through! Did you get a chance to test copper levels throughout, esp because the copper could have been absorbed by the live rock?
 
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Great to hear he pulled through! Did you get a chance to test copper levels throughout, esp because the copper could have been absorbed by the live rock?
Thanks. I can’t believe he looks so good today. I did not test the copper. I thought the rocks I used would have been leaching copper because I’ve used them in other QT with copper. I think this is the first velvet I’ve had. I did bleach the rocks this time and are drying outside now getting ready for the next fish QT.
 
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Great. Glad it worked. Give it a couple of more days in copper, then go GC. Feed with garlic in food and feed sparingly.
YOU HAVE A HIPPO TANG !!!
Thanks again for your help!! He made it into my DT. He has been in DT for just over a week and is doing great.
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