joaovieira
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I am about to quarentine wrasse for at least 6 weeks. I was considering cupramine at 0.5 leves after starts eating. Does anyone has experience treating wrasses with cupramine ? Please comment. :thumbsup:
Copper to quarentine wrasses ?
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f3honda4me
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Wrasses do not handle copper well in my experience. I would never treat a wrasse with copper proactively. If I had to treat one for ich I'd do hypo or .3 cupramine.
MrTuskfish
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Cupramine at .5 is too high for any fish, IMO. (Although its safe for most.) Cu at about .35-.40 works fine. Also, fish should be eating and CU brought to the therapeutic level very slowly. If your worried about about the wrasse and Cu, tank-transfer is ideal for curing or preventing ich; IMO. However, it won't do anything for most other, though less common, parasites. All of my wrasse have been treated with Cupramine; but I know some folks have had problems and I'd look at alternatives. Larger wrasse, like hogfish, tuskfish, etc., handle Cu very well.
joaovieira
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Thanks for the comments. I will buy the Seachem Copper test since i have salifert Copper test which is impossible to mesure 0,4 Copper.
joaovieira
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Last time i did it all my fishes (1 chevron 1 tailspot 1 slalaria) got ich. They stayed 6 weeks in my QT and showed no ich sign. The Display tank was without fishes for more than 12 weeks. Ich appeared within 4 weeks after transfering fishes in main tank so i have treated with cupramine without complications. Also my experience with cupramine has been very good untill now. about 20 fishes at total treated no one died. I confirm that fishes are eating, step up cupramine dose slowly.
So, based on this my last bad experience with the approach "wait and see" i have decided to use cupramine while QT fishes probably at 0.35-0.4 as Mr Tuskfish suggested.
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