Our 150 had copper safe in the tank roughly a year ago (at 1.8ppm). I have run PolyFilters, Cuprisorb, and Carbon since. On my Hanna Checker I am testing 0.0 (but I know that only reads to PPM). Do you think there is anyway or does anyone know of any extremely strong coral (GSP, Mushrooms, Toadstools, Xenia, Etc.) that would potential survive in this tank? Just looking to add some movement to the tank besides the fish. If anyone has experience with some really strong corals surviving in a tank previously treated with Copper will you let me know. Thank you.
FOLWR with Copper Exposure
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Troylee
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Grab some gsp and try it.. I think you’d be fine personally if it’s been a year and running carbon etc.. my last tank I bought was a fowlr and I saw a bottle of copper underneath the stand which scared me but I bought some Zoas and a monti and never looked back… I’m not sure the last time the previous owner dosed it..
I have in the past run cupramine multiple times in my FOWLR tank. Ran carbon and poly filter to remove it. I then left the hobby and keep my sand and rocks dry for a a couple of years. Came back and reused my rocks and sand lfor my RBTA and it’s doing fine in my 10g nano nem tank. Pistol shrimp and coral banded shrimp, + hermit crabs, snails doing well too. If it test 0, you should be good experimenting with cheap corals again
o2manyfish
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Be wary. The copper absorbs into the rock. While there are chemicals to remove heavy metals they remove them from the water column, they don't suck them out of the rocks.
You're tank may be reading zero now. But there can still be copper within the rocks. Remember most of the rocks in our reef tanks are not rock but a coral based structure, it does slowly erode over time. The vast amount of bio-diversity we strive for in our tanks, which we don't see, but which estabilishes a healthy aquarium is living off of the surface areas of the tank and the constant eating, etching, burrowing into the rock work can continue to release the copper.
Dave B
You're tank may be reading zero now. But there can still be copper within the rocks. Remember most of the rocks in our reef tanks are not rock but a coral based structure, it does slowly erode over time. The vast amount of bio-diversity we strive for in our tanks, which we don't see, but which estabilishes a healthy aquarium is living off of the surface areas of the tank and the constant eating, etching, burrowing into the rock work can continue to release the copper.
Dave B
JC1977
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You’ll be fine especially with hardier corals like you mentioned. I’ve ran copper power 3x in my FOWLR and had ricordea mushrooms and several hermit crabs that just wouldn’t die lol. Everybody loves to jump on these threads about copper leaching out of the rocks but it seems like most of us that have run copper in our tanks have few issues keeping inverts or corals later on.
Same thing, try something cheap and hardy.
Just to add:
I’ve heard similar to lion king’s comment from others: water changes with cuprisorb and poly filters seems to work (at least in some cases).
Some threads with examples:
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