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I decided to use Copper Power to treat my fish. I started dosing on July 23rd and my current reading it 1.0ppm of copper power. As of tonight Im not seeing any changes in behavior or eating. Im shooting for 1.75-2.00ppm for my Therapeutic Level per the following thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ratios-for-dosing-copper-power.385871/ Ive also calculated for every 5ml of Copper Power I add I see an increase of 0.12ppm. My DT has to be fallow until Oct 6 2018 or later.
 
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Im 9 days at therapeutic level and everything is going well.

I added a glass pyrex dish filled with sand so my leopard wrasse can barrow at night. I see some Cu absorption but I just a little Copper Power as needed.

My Bellus Angel had some tail rot or lymphocysis so I feed frozen mysis that I treated with Kanaplex & Focus I feed it every other day for 3 doses and it cleared up the fin very well. I should have taken before & after photos but I didnt :-(
 
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Here's my QT. Its a 60 cube with fake decore for hiding & sleeping spaces. In the front right my the pyrex filled with sand for my leopard wrasse. The bio media is a filyer sock that i cut the bottom off & a sponge that I took from my DT. The pump is a mag drive 9 and i have a Smart ATO w 7ish gal reservoir.
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Day 19 all fish are good and still eating very well! Average therapeutic level is 1.792 ppm. The fins to the leopard wrasse has grown back and he buries himself & sleeps most of the day since I have no lights on the tank so I do go wake him up to make sure hes still alive.
 
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Here are some nice corals that I have added during the fallow period.
BigR Candyland
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Uchin Pacific Wave, RR Dying Ember, TGC Wonderland
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WWC Afterparty, RR Lady in Pink TGC unnamed
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Top row left Proximo. Top row right TCK inferno
Bottom row left to right TCK new dragon Arc black dragon Commodes Patrick star Goldfinger
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ARC Black Dragon-frag & mother TCK New Dragon
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ARC Commodus mother
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ARC Patrick Star mother
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ARC Proximo mother
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TCK Inferno mother
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Today is day 30 for copper power treatment. I should thank @Humblefish with the help of his article on How to Quarantine. I successfully QT'd all 13 of my fish in my 60 cube without losing a single fish. I kept the TL from 1.66ppm to 1.99ppm, ave 1.812ppm.

I have to wait for my fallow period to end and then i will start to put my fish slowly back into my DT.

Tomorrow I'm off to Tahiti & Bora Bora for 10 days, which leads to the question will my sister kill my fish????
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Today is day 30 for copper power treatment. I should thank @Humblefish with the help of his article on How to Quarantine. I successfully QT'd all 13 of my fish in my 60 cube without losing a single fish. I kept the TL from 1.66ppm to 1.99ppm, ave 1.812ppm.

I have to wait for my fallow period to end and then i will start to put my fish slowly back into my DT.

Tomorrow I'm off to Tahiti & Bora Bora for 10 days, which leads to the question will my sister kill my fish????
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Nice! Have a great trip!
 
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Im back from vacation, all of my fish are doing well & my sister did a good job by not overfeeding my fish.

Now its time to remove all of the copper & wait for another month for my fallow period to end!

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Blue star leopards are easily one of my favorite fish. Unfortunately for me after about a year they would burrow in the sand and never come back.. Hopefully you have better luck than me!
 
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Blue star leopards are easily one of my favorite fish. Unfortunately for me after about a year they would burrow in the sand and never come back.. Hopefully you have better luck than me!

Ive had this guy for a few years now. While in QT I hardly see him but I also dont have a light on my tank since its a qt.
 
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About a month ago I lost a frag, I also noticed some bite marks on a couple other frags and I dipped (Revive) the affected frags and then I saw a bunch of dead AEFWs. I did some more looking and then I found eggs under 1 of the frag plugs of my Aussie Highlighter that had the bite marks so I cut the coral off that plug & threw out the plug out. I also was able to get a couple of bottles of Purge (unlabeled) which kills AEFWs & I picked up a bottle of Expel which is a dip so while Im fallow Im now making sure I kill those little suckers. Today, was day 6 which required a 5% water change and tomorrow I dose.

Dose 1 I did a double dose at 1oz per 20 gals my tank got all cloudy. The stuff looks like liquid oatmeal.

What I dont know is if I still have AEFWs in my tank or if I caught it in time, I didnt really see anymore AEFWs bite marks on the acros. The Aussie Highlighter is all healed up but Im going to continue with the treatment just to make sure.

On a sad note, after I came back from vacation I did a water change to get rid of the copper and I lost my cleaner wrasse. I dont believe I sucked it out with the water change I would have noticed it.

So 12 fish out of 13 fish made it through 40 days of Copper Power treatment.
 
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Major score!!!

I entered a R2R raffle a few mths back and I finally received my prize!!!!

I won a brand new Triton TRS30 Reef Sump & a custom Stealth ATO 8x15x15 so that its the same height & depth as the sump.

Thanks @Crystal Reef Aquatics & R2R!!!

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I have been dosing PURGE, the in tank AEFW treatment. Today was my final dose. for my 2nd dose I still saw some what looked like bite marks on my acros so I dipped about 30 frags what a mistake, ;Facepalm;Facepalm;Facepalm I overdosed the dip by a LOT! so I ended up killing about 15 frags. I would have been better off just riding it out since it looks like PURGE is working.
 
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Coral QT is up and running.

I currently have a AI Prime HD (picked up used) but Im not sure if I like it! Im going to keep an eye out for a used Radion 15 G4! The tank is a Waterbox 15 that I picked up from a store in Orlando, it had a chip on the back pane of glass so I got it cheap! I also have a MP10QD that I had.
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So its been a while since I posted an update.

I added the Aquatic Life 48" fixture. Ive removed all of my substrate & I purchased the APEX 2016 but I still havent hooked it up yet becuase I have to work on my wire management at that time. Im hoping to get a @turboaquatic ATS soon & the Kamoer Doser for my CaRx.

All of my fish are doing great but Im still having issues with my SPS corals.
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I finally purchased the Kamoer Doser. It was really easy to install!

Im still waiting on the ATS & I still have to replace the APEX Classic w Apex 2016 which Ive had for months but dreading dealing with wire management.
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