coppersafe in reef tank!! please helppp

[egybels]

damn man i just started my tank and added new fish. i have over a 100 lbs of lr.

[corpusse]

Originally Posted by egybels

damn man i just started my tank and added new fish. i have over a 100 lbs of lr.

If you're never going to have corals ever. It might be okay. You're still going to have to soak it out if you want to keep snails hermits or other inverts.

I know it sucks but at least you found out now before you bought 100 snails and they all dropped dead, or spent months if not years trying to figure out why you can't keep corals.

[egybels]

its just pretty discouraging being new to this hobby and the amounts of money i keep having to waste.

[viperfish]

Problem is copper bonds with calcium carbonate, so unless some chemist can chime in and tell you a way of separating the two I would be very hesitant to use to with corals or inverts.

[MikeInToronto]

Originally Posted by egybels

its just pretty discouraging being new to this hobby and the amounts of money i keep having to waste.

To put things into perspective, you will likely buy a number of coral pieces at say, $40 a piece, and you will likely lose a few of them over the course of a year; maybe some fishes. This loss is probably equivalent to the cost of replacing the LR. This hobby is expensive and although it sucks to waste any money, you will find redoing your LR isn't a big deal in the grand scheme. You might even find deals in the classifieds.

For me, I'd also replace the tank after adding copper but there is debate about whether copper really does stick to glass and silicone sealant.

Edit: I speaking about coral loses in an untreated tank, i.e.: losses you'd have regardless of whether there was copper in the tank.