So I lost a damsel pretty fast with no explanation as to what went wrong just rapid breathing one hour dead the next. That was until I saw the dusty look on my other damsel (oh great velvet). I have never used cupramine or any copper based medication so any and all tips would greatly be appreciated. I’ve done a lot of reading on it and it definitely make this stuff sounds very scary. I shipped from amazon and a copper testing kit that will be here today. Anything I should know? My biggest concern is my mandarin who doesn’t have actual scales...
Cupramine tips
- Thread starter Erino
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Crabs McJones
I'm so shi-nay
Excellence Award
Reef Tank 365
Article Contributor
Moderator Emeritus
Hospitality Award
Reef Tank 365 Boss
Wisco Reefers
My Tank Thread
It's not as scary as it seems. Running qt can actually be very easy. Being that your fish are already infected on a serious level, I would ramp up the copper pretty quickly. You can freshwater dip your fish to give them some relief of the symptoms. @HotRocks can explain it better than I. He is the QT guru along with @Humblefish @ngoodermuth @4FordFamily and @Big G
HotRocks
Fish Fanatic!
I don't know if the mandarin will tolerate ionic copper (Cupramine) I have successfully treated a mandy with chelated copper (Copper Power).
@Crabs McJones is correct, if you are dealing with velvet you want your copper level to be within the therapeutic range within 48 hours for the best chance of success. As he also mentioned a 5 min FW dip and then a 90 minute acriflavine bath (Ruby Reef Rally contains Acriflavine) would also increase your odds a bit and provide some temporary relief as well as an antiseptic treatment to help prevent a secondary infection at the entrance wound locations.
@Crabs McJones is correct, if you are dealing with velvet you want your copper level to be within the therapeutic range within 48 hours for the best chance of success. As he also mentioned a 5 min FW dip and then a 90 minute acriflavine bath (Ruby Reef Rally contains Acriflavine) would also increase your odds a bit and provide some temporary relief as well as an antiseptic treatment to help prevent a secondary infection at the entrance wound locations.
^^ Agree
If you can't find Rally in time, 30 mins in 3% H2O2 works pretty well for clearing velvet trophonts: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/hydrogen-peroxide.640232/
If you can't find Rally in time, 30 mins in 3% H2O2 works pretty well for clearing velvet trophonts: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/hydrogen-peroxide.640232/
Thank you all so much, I will hop by my petco and see what they have. It’s been super weird because I’ve dealt with ich and you could just tell the fish were uncomfortable, with what I’m still guessing is velvet, there have been almost no symptoms, just the dusty look spreading. I should mention that it’s only my damsel showing it neither of my clowns or mandarin.
