Hi Everyone,
I am 3 months into the hobby, and unfortunately, my tank went through a pretty intense Ich outbreak after adding a Kole Tang. I lost the tang but was able to save my other 2 clownfish and have them in a hospital tank, using Copper Power. I have a few questions about this particular hospital tank / dosing / next steps.
1) I noticed my ammonia was high (the seachem badge thing is garbage), so I did a 50% water change yesterday. That means I needed to replenish the copper. I re-dosed last night, and this morning I noticed the copper (using Hanna checker) was at 1.19, below the 1.50 therapeutic level. Is this 10-hour lapse in time going to negatively affect my quarentine time? I dosed 2 ML this morning, and will check the parameter in a few hours.
2) Is there an easier way to water change and know how much copper I need? I have a 10 gallon tank and haven't been able to figure out how to know exactly how much copper I need each time I dose.
3) After a few weeks of using copper, should I be doing water changes to get the copper down as much as possible? My understanding is that now that the copper is in my tank, it'll always be in there to some degree. I plan on using this tank as the quarentine tank for each fish moving forward. I guess my ultimate question here is... Should I / When should I lower copper, and to what PPM, and for how long? Can other fish go in it? Sorry if that isn't making sense haha.
Any other thoughts and feedback would be greatly appreciated. The main 55 gallon tank is going fallow for a few months, so the fish will be in here for a while. I pre-ordered a Waterbox Marine X 110.4, and once that gets here, I plan on cycling it and then adding the clowns to that tank once that is completed. Then take some rock out of my 55 gallon as well as my corals, snails, crabs, and shrimp. I want the Waterbox to be completely Ich-free.
Thanks!
I am 3 months into the hobby, and unfortunately, my tank went through a pretty intense Ich outbreak after adding a Kole Tang. I lost the tang but was able to save my other 2 clownfish and have them in a hospital tank, using Copper Power. I have a few questions about this particular hospital tank / dosing / next steps.
1) I noticed my ammonia was high (the seachem badge thing is garbage), so I did a 50% water change yesterday. That means I needed to replenish the copper. I re-dosed last night, and this morning I noticed the copper (using Hanna checker) was at 1.19, below the 1.50 therapeutic level. Is this 10-hour lapse in time going to negatively affect my quarentine time? I dosed 2 ML this morning, and will check the parameter in a few hours.
2) Is there an easier way to water change and know how much copper I need? I have a 10 gallon tank and haven't been able to figure out how to know exactly how much copper I need each time I dose.
3) After a few weeks of using copper, should I be doing water changes to get the copper down as much as possible? My understanding is that now that the copper is in my tank, it'll always be in there to some degree. I plan on using this tank as the quarentine tank for each fish moving forward. I guess my ultimate question here is... Should I / When should I lower copper, and to what PPM, and for how long? Can other fish go in it? Sorry if that isn't making sense haha.
Any other thoughts and feedback would be greatly appreciated. The main 55 gallon tank is going fallow for a few months, so the fish will be in here for a while. I pre-ordered a Waterbox Marine X 110.4, and once that gets here, I plan on cycling it and then adding the clowns to that tank once that is completed. Then take some rock out of my 55 gallon as well as my corals, snails, crabs, and shrimp. I want the Waterbox to be completely Ich-free.
Thanks!