Copper medication
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Mike J.
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There's not enough info to give an accurate answer. Copper in the main tank will linger for a long time and you won't be able to keep any invertebrates in the near future. It will also adsorb into the rocks. Running carbon will help clear it up. A generic answer, without more info, is it would be a bad idea.
NeverlosT
SPS nut
To the best of my knowledge the tank silicone can absorb some copper and make the system permanently invert unfriendly.
Only use copper if you bever intend to keep corals in that system would be my advise.
Only use copper if you bever intend to keep corals in that system would be my advise.
dunc101
Community Member
The copper being absorbed in silicone is pretty much a myth. I have taken a HT/QT tank which I used cupramine in (copper) and then used it as a SPS frag tank just fine.
As far as using copper in the DT, you just shouldn't do that, at all. The first problem is as Mike stated in that the rocks will absorb it (and any sand for that matter) and make your copper readings on your test kit go crazy. This would also render those rocks useless if you ever wanted to place corals on them in the future as they can leach copper over time.
As far as using copper in the DT, you just shouldn't do that, at all. The first problem is as Mike stated in that the rocks will absorb it (and any sand for that matter) and make your copper readings on your test kit go crazy. This would also render those rocks useless if you ever wanted to place corals on them in the future as they can leach copper over time.
Don't use any treatments in your display tank. All treatments should be done in a QT tank. You never know down the road if you'll want inverts and you never know down the road who the unlucky person will be that tries to put corals in the tank and has them all die. 
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yazeed
Active Member
I wondered if you have heard about
Chloroquine phosphate for treating ich!!
Is a medicine for malaria,it combined with fish food and feed them for several months and its not harmful for coral or live rock exe.....
Chloroquine phosphate for treating ich!!
Is a medicine for malaria,it combined with fish food and feed them for several months and its not harmful for coral or live rock exe.....
mcarroll
10K Club member
I'm not going to be the one doing the testing to prove it, but I think most of the facts about copper treatments must be myths.
First, one important fact to hold in mind is that natural sea water has copper in it and copper is crucial to that environent. It is not evil or a poison, per se.
Second, I took care of a system before that was ostensibly a fish only system. The system was OLD and was treated many, many times with copper over the years. Occasionally things like crabs were added to feed some of the fish and they managed to get away and hide - residual copper you'd think would be in there due to all the treatments having no apparent effect. In particular, a gorilla crab lived happily in that system for the 4 years I took care of it - probably a dozen copper treatments (toxic level) had been done in that course of time. Go figure.
-Matt
P.S. That's just an anecdote..still be careful using copper around inverts.
First, one important fact to hold in mind is that natural sea water has copper in it and copper is crucial to that environent. It is not evil or a poison, per se.
Second, I took care of a system before that was ostensibly a fish only system. The system was OLD and was treated many, many times with copper over the years. Occasionally things like crabs were added to feed some of the fish and they managed to get away and hide - residual copper you'd think would be in there due to all the treatments having no apparent effect. In particular, a gorilla crab lived happily in that system for the 4 years I took care of it - probably a dozen copper treatments (toxic level) had been done in that course of time. Go figure.
-Matt
P.S. That's just an anecdote..still be careful using copper around inverts.
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