Copper in quarantine?

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

Again, this is all opinion, but so far I've tried hypo (it failed, but I sucked at the protocol, so don't count that as diagnostic for the method), and I lost fish because of it. I've tried copper, and I lost heaps of fish to that. I now use tank transfer method, and I've so far not lost a fish, and it's been 100% effective.

I have used hypo 3 times now, with 100% success rate. There are a couple critical success factors. One is that you have to go down to 1.009 (using a refractometer) and the other is keep it there for 6 weeks since the last time you saw any symptoms. There can be no compromise with those two.

I actually used nearly 3 months total time in QT with mine. I had some finicky fish and used the extra time to get them feeding well and strong before transferring them to my display tank, where they might not be treated well initially by their new tank mates (ie. my yellow tang).