Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board - Does hyposalinity really work for ich?

I don,t think cupramine is so nocif to fish as long as you don't use any type of water treatment or dechlorinator that could bind with the amine and release the nocif copper. So no Prime while using Cupramine or any other similar! But from what I read it is efficient and safe.

So I guess a freshwater dip is a good way to quickly help a fish plagued with velvet get rid of most of it, but personaly I would be so afraid of bringing that into my main system that I would want to treat with cupramine to be 100% sure it's dead.

I hope that you will never have to deal with any of this.

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Originally Posted by Myka (Post 558210)

Hehehe, freshwater dips don't look nice because the buoyancy of saltwater is different than freshwater so they get all messed up. It does look like you`re killing them.

I refuse to use copper these days. Ten years ago when I didn`t know there were better ways or that copper can be so harmful I used it for Ich. Since then I have never had to resort to using copper since other treatments have always worked for me.