Used cupramine to treat a 75 gallon tank 2 marine land bio wheel filters all carbon removed temp set to 81 degrees my black and white female clown looked great now she has more spots than she did two weeks ago I measured the drops exactly 75 gallon tank 143 drops it is the display tank there is sand and ready rock. Anemones were removed and coral, red banded coral shrimpIn a 30 gallon holding tank. 75 gallon dosed after 48 hours and now I don’t know what to do. should I re dose it has been more than a week and a half I do have to add water regularly as it is evaporating salinity is perfect water looks great already lost a blue tang who I suspect was the culprit and then a beautiful healthy yellow tang please help I don’t know if I should dose again scared to loose my fish
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So I know I'm reading it right, you're treating in your display tank and moved all your coral and anemone over to a 30 gallon holding tank? Any reason why you didn't do it the other way around? Your best bet would have been to put your fish in the holding tank to treat and leave your coral and anemones in the 75. Treating in the display tank is never recommended and theres a good chance you won't be able to put coral or inverts back in the display ever again as your rocks soak up the copper and then slowly leak it back out over time. But dont worry, lots of great users on here, and well be able to help you through this
So I know I'm reading it right, you're treating in your display tank and moved all your coral and anemone over to a 30 gallon holding tank? Any reason why you didn't do it the other way around? Your best bet would have been to put your fish in the holding tank to treat and leave your coral and anemones in the 75. Treating in the display tank is never recommended and theres a good chance you won't be able to put coral or inverts back in the display ever again as your rocks soak up the copper and then slowly leak it back out over time. But dont worry, lots of great users on here, and well be able to help you through this
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So I know I'm reading it right, you're treating in your display tank and moved all your coral and anemone over to a 30 gallon holding tank? Any reason why you didn't do it the other way around? Your best bet would have been to put your fish in the holding tank to treat and leave your coral and anemones in the 75. Treating in the display tank is never recommended and theres a good chance you won't be able to put coral or inverts back in the display ever again as your rocks soak up the copper and then slowly leak it back out over time. But dont worry, lots of great users on here, and well be able to help you through this
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@Randy Holmes-Farley @Humblefish any suggestions as to damage done and next steps?? As others have said, WELCOME to R2R!!!! Sorry for your losses but I would hold off on treating with copper until you can get a decent QT set up... doesn't have to be fancy, for a couple clowns a 10Gal cheapo tank will work.
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Good morning,
It’s an amazing pleasure meeting you and welcome to the forum. As you have seen there are tons of lovely people, with a vast amount of knowledge. Please feel free to ask me questions you have about your tank, and of course we want to see some pics.
I’m not certain why you treated your display tank with copper? As other have stated, you won’t be able to put your coral or Anemones back in it. I also hope that you don’t have any turbo snails or invertebrates in there as well.
I’d love to see pics of your clown, are you sure you have ick? Many people have actually treated for ick when they have marine velvet. We definitely wanna make sure that when we help you, we are treating the proper disease.
I really wish you the best of luck, in all this and do hope to see pictures.
Sincerely
Sarah
It’s an amazing pleasure meeting you and welcome to the forum. As you have seen there are tons of lovely people, with a vast amount of knowledge. Please feel free to ask me questions you have about your tank, and of course we want to see some pics.
I’m not certain why you treated your display tank with copper? As other have stated, you won’t be able to put your coral or Anemones back in it. I also hope that you don’t have any turbo snails or invertebrates in there as well.
I’d love to see pics of your clown, are you sure you have ick? Many people have actually treated for ick when they have marine velvet. We definitely wanna make sure that when we help you, we are treating the proper disease.
I really wish you the best of luck, in all this and do hope to see pictures.
Sincerely
Sarah
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Welcome to R2R. As is quite clear, treating a DT with copper is not recommended. Not only have you "poisoned" the rock, it is extremely difficult maintaining therapeutic levels of copper because the rock absorbs that copper.
I'd still set up a hospital tank and locate all fish to that tank to treat with copper. As far as the DT???? Maybe start with 100 percent water changes and running copper-absorbing products to lower the copper that will be leaching out of the rock. Being able to put inverts in that tank in the future is going to be a crap-shoot.
I'd still set up a hospital tank and locate all fish to that tank to treat with copper. As far as the DT???? Maybe start with 100 percent water changes and running copper-absorbing products to lower the copper that will be leaching out of the rock. Being able to put inverts in that tank in the future is going to be a crap-shoot.
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