copper treatment and water changes

Lance · #1 03-22-2009, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by e46er

ok thanks guys thats what i figured but then it suddenly dawned on me that with hospital tanks your ment to do WC daily or every 2 days to keep up water quality so i started to second guess

I've found that I have to change about 20% of the water every 4-5 days to keep the ammonia levels in check. (I have 19 fish in a 180 gal QT) After the water change I have to top up the copper again. I've got 3 more days to go with the copper treatments.

e46er · #2 03-23-2009, 01:15 AM

Thanks but copper treatment is over i had another question in post 4 so i asked on my original thread on the problem instead of making a new thread

marie · #3 03-23-2009, 01:29 AM

After going through all the hassle of taking the fish out and treating them I would think it would be better to be safe then sorry and wait the extra week.
I personally went 8 weeks before placing fish back in the display but then I had marine velvet

e46er · #4 03-23-2009, 01:33 AM

ok thank you i was going to wait the full 6 weeks anyways im too tired to do it this weekend and during the week im fairly busy
i was just wondering if 6 weeks was long enough to kill the ich in the tank regardless of what stage the parasite was at if 6 weeks without a host was enough or what other people had done ie 8 weeks

thanks for the reply i dont wanna go through catching them again that flame angel was NOT easy