FOWLR clean up. COPPER SAFE.

[Trevorbaker96]

In a midnight rush decision after work & coming home to my fish showing signs of rapid breathing. I decided to dose my 125 gallon FOWLR tank with Copper Power. Killing all invertebrates I now no longer have any clean up crew. I understand the tank will now forever have some what of copper in it due to the sand and rock. With all that said what is my best bet for helping the tank overall with clean up that is obviously copper safe. What’re in the tank and have survived so far (THANK GOD) are a Morish Idol, Stars and Stripes Puffer, Sleeper Gobie, Melanurus Wrasse & a Harlequin Tusk. Thank you for any insight and/or knowledge! (QT tank wasn’t readily available at the time)

Novice with a 110 Reef & 125 FOWL.

 

[JasonK84]

Cuprisorb along with water changes will remove the copper (may always have some leeching back out of the rock and sand as you mention). Also GAC will remove copper as well. Maybe a very large water change and then either cuprisorb or GAC.

How Long have you had the moorish idol? I’ve always thought they looked amazing and want one someday.

 

[Trevorbaker96]

Cuprisorb along with water changes will remove the copper. Also GAC will remove copper as well. Maybe a very large water change and then either cuprisorb or GAC.

How Long have you had the moorish idol? I’ve always thought they looked amazing and want one someday.

I’ve had him my whole hobby all 3 months .... he eats everything & loves his tank mates. Did not do well with my tangs in my reef tank.

 

[Trevorbaker96]

I’ve had him my whole hobby all 3 months .... he eats everything & loves his tank mates. Did not do well with my tangs in my reef tank.

Will do that after treatment perfect !

 

[JasonK84]

I’ve had him my whole hobby all 3 months .... he eats everything & loves his tank mates. Did not do well with my tangs in my reef tank.

Can you share some pics? Also, where did you get him?

 

[Trevorbaker96]

Can you share some pics? Also, where did you get him?

I got him from a local LFS he was supposedly in a reef tank for almost a year but the guy couldn’t get him to stop nipping on corals so he traded him in. Picture is a screenshot and he’s def not looking 100% because of this darn bacterial I’m fighting. https://ibb.co/MPtp8Cf
There’s Morry.

 

[JasonK84]

Good looking fish!

I got him from a local LFS he was supposedly in a reef tank for almost a year but the guy couldn’t get him to stop nipping on corals so he traded him in. Picture is a screenshot and he’s def not looking 100% because of this darn bacterial I’m fighting. https://ibb.co/MPtp8Cf
There’s Morry.

 

[lion king]

Run cuprizorb at least 2 weeks past the time your tank test zero for copper. The rocks and sand will eventually leach all the copper back into the water column to be removed. Running the cuprizorb in a reactor makes it much more effective. As insurance you can run a bio-marine poly filter and it will turn blue, even a tinge, if you still have copper, and it will eventually mop up any residual. I have inverts and corals in tanks that I previously ran copper, I have friends with full blown reefs operating for years. Even after all this time the myth continues.

 

[Trevorbaker96]

Run cuprizorb at least 2 weeks past the time your tank test zero for copper. The rocks and sand will eventually leach all the copper back into the water column to be removed. Running the cuprizorb in a reactor makes it much more effective. As insurance you can run a bio-marine poly filter and it will turn blue, even a tinge, if you still have copper, and it will eventually mop up any residual. I have inverts and corals in tanks that I previously ran copper, I have friends with full blown reefs operating for years. Even after all this time the myth continues.

Perfect !!! This is what I wanted to hear, after treatment I will get to work on removing all traces of copper for awhile before adding back clean up crew !