Aclimation of fish in QT with copper to main tank?

[inetmug]

Hi all,

I do use the drop system to acclimate all fish between moves. Easy peasy between healthy tanks, or from DT into QT, or from LFS into QT.

But what about from a "coppered" tank? So I have some copper water in the bucket, and I start a drip, then what? Seachem does have a curpsorb product as well. They are not recommending dips like Parguard at all as it can change the chemical composition of the cuprimine.

So, the question is how do one move fish in a copper QT tank to DT, without getting copper from the QT into the DT?


BTW, the seachem site states paraguard will now do ick... interesting. Send it to mythbusters....

[bnumair]

from medicated qt to dt if i understood ur question right?
i take a bucket of water from dt then using a dedicated qt net, net the fish out of qt and into the bucket. then using a dedicated dt net, net the fish out of bucket to dt.
or you can use cuprisorb/carbon/polyfilter and water changes to rid copper out of qt and then transfer fish.

[inetmug]

Yes, you read the question right.

Ok, so no drip acclimation process from QT to DT bucket in this case. That makes sense in this particular case.

So here is what I will do:

1) Put DT water into DT bucket.
2) Give time to bring DT bucket water to same temp and salinity.
3) Move fish via from QT to DT bucket net as you suggest using dedicated net.
4) Acclimate the DT bucket with drip from DT tank.
5) Move fish from the acclimated DT bucket into the DT tank using dedicated DT net.

This makes me feel ok about this. That will work. Thank you. I have not lost a single thing since I started the 250G tank project since I inherited the system from my bud. I know he would be proud of my diligence to the subject.

I did this so many times in the past in my 55G when we collected together, but this new 250G took so much work to get set up I am paranoid of my potential ignorance at time.

[Pife]

Your qt should be the same salinity and temperature as your dt. I don't drip between the two at all. Fish into bucket of dt water. Then fish into dt. Don't cross find contaminate the nets either.

[bnumair]

let me clear up few things. no drip required.
few days prior to moving the fish from qt to dt. bring qt parameters to match dt specially temp and salinity and pH as close as u can get. then take a bucket fill it with water from dt. using a dedicated qt net catch the fish and place in the bucket. using a dt dedicated net catch fish and place in dt right away.