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Unread 10/16/2014, 10:08 PM   #1
mskvarenina
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My tank is doing great!

First a thank you to everyone here to answered my questions as I got back into the hobby. Today I'm happy to report my 93g tank is doing just great. I haven't lost a fish in months, there is no flashing, no signs of stress, everyone is "fat and happy".

There is real different between a talk you're trying to start up and an established tank with happy, healthy inhabitants. In the beginning months as some here know I struggled with a little ick, I dosed the tank with copper (it's a FO tank) and I lost some fish.

Now things are so good I almost don't want to touch anything or add any fish for fear of disrupting the perfect environment.


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Unread 10/17/2014, 08:51 AM   #2
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if you start a FO tank - and use copper to treat Ick -

does that mean you can never start reefing in there? or does that copper "evaporate" eventually and it becomes reef safe after a while?

i ask because i am setting up a new tank - and plan to add rock and fish in the start ONLY - and will add corals way down the road.


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Unread 10/17/2014, 09:20 AM   #3
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copper will be absorbed into the sand and rocks which will kill any inverts/corals you plan to add later. this is why copper is used in either a dedicated fish only tank or a hospital tank.


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Unread 10/17/2014, 09:28 AM   #4
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From my understanding of cupramine, if you continue to run cuprisorb and copper for several months following removal of the initial copper treatment, you will likely be okay to add inverts...Obviously it would be safest not to do so, but just throwing it out there


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Unread 10/17/2014, 11:12 AM   #5
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I ran cupramine then later cuprisorb and polyfilter for 2 months after treatment and two different test kits measure zero copper so I'm guessing it's removed.


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