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Old 12-12-2012, 02:18 AM
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SeaChem's Cupramine is pretty good too. I use it in my personal quarantine tank. The label claims that the copper stays in solution and won't precipitate...

The tricky part about setting up a treatment tank on the fly when you need it... you have to be careful if you set up a system that it might not have a biological filter with bacterial count ready for the corresponding bio load... then your fish die from ammonia poisoning (ammonia is exponentially more toxic in higher pH... as in seawater). Best practice is to keep a quarantine tank on the go with mollies or something all the time to keep it cycling, and keep new fish acquisition in observation with copper for week(s).

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