NEED your advice A.S.A.P...

[Tarolisol]

I've treated my box fish and tangs with it, they both pulled through.

[bulletsworld]

Tarolisol, thanks for your reply,

Did you half to use a smaller dose of copper for the boxfish?

[Seamonkey]

I posted a reply earlier today about this exact subject. In my 5 years of having marine fish I have treated my 90 gal at least 4 times with coppersafe and it never caused a problem with my 2 puffers and always cleared up the ich. I have a dogface and a sharpnose.

[Tarolisol]

I did exactly what it said on the box. I couldnt find a test kit to save my life when i treated though. I took out the carbon running on the tank and let it be. The box fish could incredible bad the first few days in QT then got better. Didnt really eat much in the QT. But lived. same with a blue tang but he ate in the QT, and lived untill today when it jumped from the tank.

[bulletsworld]

Yeah its good to get others experiences for sure.

Thanks for your replies. I'm thinking I will stop my treatment with Cupramine. Do a huge water change and run carbon and treat with Coppersafe.

Feeling uneasy about using Cupramine after everyones had better luck with Coppersafe and that it holds in the water up to a month. Not like Cupramine were it falls outta the soulution like it already has makin it hard to keep the actually dose required to kill the parasites.

Thanks guys for convincing me CopperSafe is the safer choice.

*BIG HUGS*

[bulletsworld]

Any one know if you can run a Skimmer while treating with Copper? Sorry may be silly question but hey you never know. My skimmer just seems to be keeping my ammonia in check.

[Bob I]

I would say yes. To the best of my knowledge a skimmer only removes large protenaceous molecules from the water. It may also remove things bound to those molecules, but I don't think so.

[monza]

Maybe I missed it in your post, is your tank fish only? I don't think I'd hook a skimmer up to a copper treatment tank that would be used on a reef system.
Dave
Hope your fish gets better!

[bulletsworld]

OMG, your so right! Me DOH! I never thought about that! Its a Qt tank only but I took the skimmer off my reef tank.

Just never thought about that it will wreck it for ever trying to put it back on the reef! Sense tells me...DOH! *hand to the head*

Shit now I have a QT skimmer only! Damn!


Thanks Monza for that very good point!

[monza]

Maybe you can take it off and not to much copper would have leached into the skimmer so quickly, but I don't know. If you had a problem down the road that would always be in the back of your mind.

Wow a skimmer on your QT tank...must be nice!

Dave