Removing Sailfin Tang From QT

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I just did a full 30 day Copper Power treatment on my sailfin tang and he’s been very healthy throughout the entire process. Is it safe to move him from the QT to my DT without completely removing the copper from the QT? I did a W/C yesterday so copper is sitting around 1.25 ppm. If so, how long should I acclimate him for? Thanks!

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Should be safe. Place it in a bucket of tank water (as a rinse with the copper) and leave in there for 15 mins ( same as acclimating to the new water) and do your transfer
 
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Should be safe. Place it in a bucket of tank water (as a rinse with the copper) and leave in there for 15 mins ( same as acclimating to the new water) and do your transfer
Place him in a bucket of my DT water? Don’t use the QT water? sorry for all of the questions, just don’t want him to get sick during the transfer.
 

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Place him in a bucket of my DT water? Don’t use the QT water? sorry for all of the questions, just don’t want him to get sick during the transfer.
Questions good. I state tank water as it is a rinse but mainly introducing it prematurely to the new environment water. Will eleiminate acclimation. In many cases QT water and tank water differ and aquarists will drop fish right in whereas PH, salinity will differ in many cases. Additionally rinsing in qt water still contains copper.
 
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Questions good. I state tank water as it is a rinse but mainly introducing it prematurely to the new environment water. Will eleiminate acclimation. In many cases QT water and tank water differ and aquarists will drop fish right in whereas PH, salinity will differ in many cases. Additionally rinsing in qt water still contains copper.
will do! Thank you!
 

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