Can i quarantine flashing tile fish by using Cupramine ?

tai27969 · Oct 25, 2023

MnFish1 · Oct 25, 2023

Many would recommend copper safe as 'safer' but IMHO you can. Just to make sure though - are you saying the tilefish is 'flashing'? If so - does it have any lesions, breathing issues? Are your other fish ok? If you're talking about treating (not QT) a disease, its important to try to pin down what the disease is

i cant think · Oct 25, 2023

tai27969 said:
Can i quarantine flashing tile fish by using Cupramine ?

Don’t quarantine them. It stresses them out more than needed, if you have one then take the risk and throw it in display.

I have had 2-3 personally and not one went through QT. It’s more likely to thrive this way. Make sure they have 7-10 caves at a minimum to dart into. These are shy fish that don’t like bright light once in a tank of any kind. And they also hate high activity displays. It’s better to have an understocked tank with this species.

nereefpat · Oct 25, 2023

Copper Power or Coppersafe is what you want. Ionic copper (Cupramine) is harder on fish, and has to be lower and more accurately dosed and tested.

nuxx · Oct 25, 2023

Always had good luck with Cupramine, but also had kind of over the top large / comfortable QT tanks where they were by themselves as well.

Fishfreak2009 · Oct 25, 2023

I've used cupramine on Hoplolatilus marcosi, Hoplolatilus fourmanoiri, Hoplolatilus purpureus, and Hoplolatilus starcki without issue. Definitely quarantine in a larger tank, maybe with zebra dartfish or chromis as a dither to draw them out and teach them to eat better. The darts worked nicely in my experience. From what I've seen in tiles both available locally and from what I've purchased online, they tend to be prone to flukes as well as ich.

i cant think · Oct 26, 2023

Fishfreak2009 said:
I've used cupramine on Hoplolatilus marcosi, Hoplolatilus fourmanoiri, Hoplolatilus purpureus, and Hoplolatilus starcki without issue. Definitely quarantine in a larger tank, maybe with zebra dartfish or chromis as a dither to draw them out and teach them to eat better. The darts worked nicely in my experience. From what I've seen in tiles both available locally and from what I've purchased online, they tend to be prone to flukes as well as ich.

IME, you’ve Quarantined the easier species. If you try a Chlupatyi you’ll find they are a nightmare (10x worse than purpureus can be).