Just rinse them gently in clean seawater before using them in your DT. Copper doesn’t bind to plastic, you just need to rinse off any copper treated water.
Well, that adds another issue - if you were treating with just prazi, I would dose at least twice, 8 days apart. For egg laying flukes, it is usually needed to treat a third time, after another 8 days. The trouble is the GC has metronidazole in it as well. This has no effect against flukes. I would do a 25% water change before the second (and third treatment).
From what I heard, metro only stays active in the water for 8 hours maximum? Is this correct?
So I'm really not sure why more experts on the subject aren't suggesting it but Copper Power is much better than Coppersafe for copper sensitive fish treatment. It's milder, but between 2.0-2.5ppm dosing gets the job done. I also have been using Copper Power with live rock and sand without issue (its more stable than others). I would switch to that @websurfer Copper toxicity is rare, but immune suppression due to copper is not and Moorish Idols usually develop bacterial infections when their immune systems are compromised. I have 2 idols in my DT now that were successfully treated with Copper Power.
Sounds good i did try to dip them when i first got them one almost died on me.. As soon as he hit the water like 40 sec later was on his back no gill movement etc... The other one had no issues just sat in the FW like nothing was going on.. I did not see anything come off them however I'm a true rookie and this is my first every QT try...
All good brother I'm new to the hobby as well. Just a dork and did a bunch of research. Jay is absolutely awesome and has great advice so do what he is tell you to do and you should end up fine. I believe he is the one who told me Copper Power was more mild actually. I have a lot of finicky eating fish and wrasses so I wanted to treat with a copper less likely to cause appetite suppression. If that happens though just go by some topneck or little neck clams. Those two clams I'm convinced can get any fish to pig out.
Thanks for the info I'm no pro either i just read a lot haha.. back in the good ole days I used to do this full time way back about 28 years ago I worked in a fish store.. But man how things have changed since then.. I still have some of the common sense but not much... Waiting for the coopersafe to arrive it was sold out at all the LFS around here.
It could be they are irritated with the copper and the GC at the same time? Sorry, I don’t dose those together, so I don’t know what the chance is for a reaction like that.
The scratching has stopped after water change. should i ramp down the copper as well before the 30 days (on day 20 right now)? It seems my clown trigger and lionfish in the tank are stressed and not eating. The trigger is breathing heavy too with some fin damage. The puffer and eel are doing OK and still eating
Triggers are not sensitive to copper, so that worries me. Lionfish are reported to be, but I've not seen that myself except possibly in some of the exotic species.
The scratching has stopped after water change. should i ramp down the copper as well before the 30 days (on day 20 right now)? It seems my clown trigger and lionfish in the tank are stressed and not eating. The trigger is breathing heavy too with some fin damage. The puffer and eel aredoing OK and still eating
Here you go. The puffer was eating today and suddenly started moving erratically and scratching a couple of times. I am not sure if my water parameters are off or not. Ph is 7.9, nitrate is 20ppm. Or is it the shrimp I'm feeding them. I was thinking to do a 50% water changes to see if it helps reduce stress. So far the puffer and eel are eating. Lionfish ate a bit yesterday. The trigger hasn't eaten for 3 days and mostly hides. Should I maintain copper?
I'm using hanna checker. Copper Power at 2.5ppm. Unfortunately the trigger didnt make it. I doubt it was flukes as I completed 3 rounds of GC recently. I even did a FW dip on the corpse to be sure. I did a water change. They seem less stressed. Although the lionfish used to eat heavily and come to the front of the tank but now its become quite shy. Not sure if it got spooked during my water change. My 30 days of copper ends in about a week. If everyone is eating, would it be safe to put them in my DT? Or I should observe for another week or so? I was thinking it would be good to pull them out of full copper into the DT.
