copper question

[reefjunkie42]

hey guys i am running cuprimine on a Qt with a few angles in it. Selcon is making the water a bit cloudy and I was thinking about doing a water change. Is this ok to do and what is the proper way to go about this? or should I wait the 21 days and not worry about ammonia. It is a 40 B tank

 

[andrenym00]

hey guys i am running cuprimine on a Qt with a few angles in it. Selcon is making the water a bit cloudy and I was thinking about doing a water change. Is this ok to do and what is the proper way to go about this? or should I wait the 21 days and not worry about ammonia. It is a 40 B tank

I would do a water change and add cupramine in the replacement water. You definitely dont want an ammonia spike. Just keep the cupramine levels at .50 steady.

 

[reefjunkie42]

ok thanks.

 

[MrTuskfish]

With Angels, I'd run Cupramine at .35ppm. Angels are copper-sensitive and Cupramine is very effective at this level. I'd skip the Selcon for now. Its great stuff, but its benefits are long-term. The fish won't be missing anything for the short time in QT and you're just adding another pollutant. Most ammonia test kits don't work with copper, but the stick-on badges do. Monitoring ammonia in a QT is vital. You can't "just not worry about it for 21 days". Unless you had a way to cycle the QT, ammonia will need to be controlled with very regular WCs. Do not use any of the ammonia neutralizers (Prime, Ammo-Lock, etc); they form deadly compounds with copper.
BTW, are these newly purchased fish and what are you treating for: Prevention or parasites?