RDNanoguy's 165 gal Reef Upgrade

[RDNanoGuy]

Well a bit of an update.

Day 2 of copper treatment and no deaths! The fish looked a little better today and they all ate some food. Mixed up a custom nutritional mush for them consisting of seafood chunks nori algae wafers selcon and garlic.

Total deaths so far:

Powder Blue Tang (aka Bluey)
2 domino damsels

I will be keeping the fish in quarantine for 8 weeks to let all the cysts in the display die off. It looks so quiet!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by RDNanoGuy

I will be keeping the fish in quarantine for 8 weeks to let all the cysts in the display die off. It looks so quiet!

that part really sucks. I'm at week 5 now...

[RDNanoGuy]

Brad are you doing 8 weeks too? That seems be the concensus from what I've read but some say 10?

[Aquattro]

I read 42 days somewhere, 8 weeks was being safe. Not sure where I found that though.

[Aquattro]

Just ran a couple of searches, most sites list 6-8 weeks, 8 giving a better chance of clearing it from the tank. Higher temps speed up the process, but might be harmful to corals.

[RDNanoGuy]

Well some bad news... lost another fish.

Today it was my Flame Angel. That brings the death toll to 4.

Did a 5 gal waterchange and added a little more copper to the tank.

Fingers crossed cuz I'm running out of fish!

[Aquattro]

Are you measuring copper?

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by RDNanoGuy

Well some bad news... lost another fish

+1 to measuring copper. A seachem kit is cheap enough