Removing copper?

[twintrades]

So i have a breeding rack and for some reason a month ago i had some ich appear....... I decided to treat the whole set up. I am ich free now ! So how do i go about removing the copper? I see that i can use carbon to remove it. I dont have a reactor to run it in. Would putting it in a mesh bag work ? Or is there a easy DIY thing i could make to remove it? ( no i dont have a spare HOB filter either.)

My breeding rack has all the returning water come into a single filter sock. I was thinking i could put a mesh bag of carbon in there and have the sock act as a back up to prevent the carbon from being crushed and flowing back to the brood stock tanks. What do yall think?

 

[NC2WA]

Buy Cuprisorb by Seachem and put in a filter sock...follow instructions bottle.

 

[twintrades]

Ok ill have to pick some up

 

[fishheadz]

A polyfilter will absorb copper also, (if you can flow water through it somewhere).

 

[Mike J.]

I would think, to be absolutely safe, it should be drained and cleaned with acetic acid (vinegar) or a diluted solution of muriatic acid.

 

[twintrades]

...... Mike its a clown fish breeding rack no inverts. Just need to get the copper out so they will start laying again. Residual copper ist going to hurt anything.

 

[Reefing Madness]

A polyfilter will absorb copper also, (if you can flow water through it somewhere).

agreed. You could also just run a whole lot of carbon, as carbon absorbs heavy metals.

 

[twintrades]

Ive been running carbon....... Its not doing much. lol

 

[Mike J.]

...... Mike its a clown fish breeding rack no inverts. Just need to get the copper out so they will start laying again. Residual copper ist going to hurt anything.

Actually, I knew I read somewhere that copper can affect embryo development in fish eggs.

The effects of copper on the morphological and... [Aquat Toxicol. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI

 

[twintrades]

LOL you musta had to do some searching to find that one!. When treating for ich you run it at .5 mg. Convert that to micrograms ( mcg ) Its 500. The study shows that the higher end of the concentration had the most affect 1000mcg. And they were left in the water after hatching. You pull fry the night of hatching or days before. The amount of copper left over after absorbing it would be below what there test recorded. Thanks for taking the time to find that BTW it was an interesting read. It would have been nice to know what kind of copper it was that was used for the study tho..... chleated or sulfate?

Good thing clowns are hardy compared to zebra fish.

 

[Mike J.]

Actually took .2 second search to find it. Not the exact one I was looking for, but it's the thought that counts. The greatest mortality to the embryos was between 5 - 12 hours after fertization. Unless your snatching the eggs out within hours of the male doing his thing they're exposed. I'd find a better article for you to contemplate, but don't want to spend more than .2 seconds searching.

 

[twintrades]

Lol Im not stressing. I'm going to get the copper to undetectable levels and go from there. Did a WC tonight and added another tank to the system. Pay day ill get some cuprisorb. And go from there. I talked to someone on MOFIB and they had fish spawn with copper in the water and had no issues with the fry. Now to get them to lay !