Cupramine dosing

[mattb2989]

Hi all. After my bad experience with copper power. I now have a few fish in qt again and will be using cupramine. As theres various different figures out there. What is the therapeutic range for cupramine and what levels have worked for you guys?

Thank you

 

[gbroadbridge]

Hi all. After my bad experience with copper power. I now have a few fish in qt again and will be using cupramine. As theres various different figures out there. What is the therapeutic range for cupramine and what levels have worked for you guys?

Thank you

Over 3 days raise to 0.5ppm.

Follow the directions on the bottle. Test with Seachem Copper Test after the day 1 and day 3 dose to ensure you are at the correct 0.5ppm level at day 3. Maintain for minimum 14 days.

Remove with Carbon and Cuprasorb

 

[mattb2989]

Over 3 days raise to 0.5ppm.

Follow the directions on the bottle. Test with Seachem Copper Test after the day 1 and day 3 dose to ensure you are at the correct 0.5ppm level at day 3. Maintain for minimum 14 days.

Remove with Carbon and Cuprasorb

Thanks mate.

 

[Projects with Sam]

any idea if salifert test will work ok with cupramine?

 

[gbroadbridge]

any idea if salifert test will work ok with cupramine?

I think if you're dosing cupramine, you should use the Seachem copper test.

I don't know about Salifert, but the Hanna Copper test gave me strange results.

Others may have found they work just fine.

All part of the fun.

 

[Reefahholic]

What happened with the Cooper Power? I dosed Cupramine for 10+ years and it’s pretty harsh on fish compared to Copper Power.

I find Copper Power to be gentle, stable, effective, and easy to dose. Best Copper I’ve used to date.

 

[gbroadbridge]

What happened with the Cooper Power? I dosed Cupramine for 10+ years and it’s pretty harsh on fish compared to Copper Power.

I find Copper Power to be gentle, stable, effective, and easy to dose. Best Copper I’ve used to date.

Copper power is illegal in Australia.

FWIW, so is cupramine but it tends to get delivered whereas Copperpower gets destroyed by the border officials.

 

[Reefahholic]

Copper power is illegal in Australia.

FWIW, so is cupramine but it tends to get delivered whereas Copperpower gets destroyed by the border officials.

Ok, but what was the problem with Copper Power?

 

[gbroadbridge]

Ok, but what was the problem with Copper Power?

Don't get me started

There are a whole slew of products available in the US which are quite simply prohibited imports into Australia including many antibiotics.

They can be prescribed by a vet, but are illegal to sell retail.

Unless things have changed recently all Copper treatments are on the prohibited list.

Perhaps things have recently changed as I can see a number of stores in Queensland selling online, nothing in my home state. Perhaps they are simply dodging the law.

Lol, I bought some off amazon and have it in the first aid kit if I need it, but no LFS has any copper product except for Reef revolution which somehow gained approval.