Killing hippo tang humanely

[Bryan47]

My hippo tang which looked great after a few days in cupramine is now on his side and it looks like the end is near. This happens to me every time with cupramine I e had one successful fish make it through quarantine. I will be treating with hypo salinity from now on. I've lost so many fish to cupramine and at the correct levels of course.

What's the most humane way to end it quickly for him

My clowns weren't doing well either so I took them out and put them back in DT. They seem to be doing ok just ich spots. Luckily I'm upgrading to a new tank soon so I will have one treatment tank and the new DT will be left fallow. Ich is the cancer of out world, I hate it!

 

[KJ]

Put him in zipper bag and put the bag on top freezer .

 

[KJ]

Very quick death

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

I would use clove oil. I feel this is the most humane. It works like anesthesia.

 

[glb]

I'm so sorry about your fishie.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Clove Oil.

 

[4FordFamily]

I haven't ever had issues with cupramine.

I would be willing to bet one of two things is happening:

1) you're using prime, Amquel, or some sort of ammonia nitrite and nitrate detoxifier (HUGE no no)
2) you're using a test for copper that is anything other than seachem (the company that makes cupramine)

I have used cupramine on
Yellow belly hippo,
Chevron tang,
Purple tang,
Desjardi Sailfin tang,
Yellow tang,
Powder blue tang
Emperor angel
Queen angel
Passer angel
Potters angel
Flame angel
Rock beauty angel
Moorish idol
Magnificent foxface
Australian harlequin tusk
Red coris wrasse
Lime green wrasse
Cleaner wrasse
Banana wrasse
Melanarus wrasse
Candy cane squirrelfish
Maroon clownfish

And more without ever an issue

 

[4FordFamily]

Ok I am pretty sure I know what is killing them. Oxygen loss. That little tray is too small and there's no water movement inside. They're starving of oxygen.

 

[akma]

Are you treating in the specimen container in the dt? And testing?

 

[PaulKreider]

I wouldn't blame the treatment, did you recently receive him? Hippo tangs are VERY subject to shipping stress and are finicky at best until properly acclimated.

 

[4FordFamily]

Op? Where did you go?

 

[bneufelder]

Get him out of the cupramine until he recovers? I had a lot of death when I followed the directions on the bottle. What worked for me was doing the math to have a max level of .5 and then dividing that dose over the course of a week. It's much more gradual of an adjustment.

 

[HiddenUser]

You need to give them oxygen...that little container will only support fish for so long.

 

[PaulKreider]

Wait you're treating with cupramine in a separate tank not that little container correct?