I am doing a copper treatment for my powder blue tang in a 30 gallon hospital tank and dropping the salinity in my main display to 1.018 and trying a reef safe ich killer for a month or so as a precaution as the tang is the only one so far to show signs of ich and so I don't have to take my 7 other fish out of my main. I have heard that the ich killer stuff doesn't work and then I have read that it does. So I am just going to use it anyways. I have read that these methods are a safe way of killing off all parasites that may be in your main tank without having to take all your fish out. Now I have a few questions.
Question number one the hospital tank is a 29 gallon, and I am wondering what do I do for filtration. I have a brand new hob filter that came with a carbon filter that I run when I use it for a QT tank but now that I have copper in the water I assume I shouldn't run the filter? So I just do water changes then with no filtration and how often do I do water changes on the hospital tank.
Question 2, I accidently put a shrimp into the hospital tank as I usually have one in during QT periods forgetting that shrimp and copper probably are a bad combo. The copper wasn't as strong as it needed to be before I realized my mistake but he was probably in the water for 10-15 minutes before I realized. Is he doomed to death and if not can I put him back in my main display without killing my other inverts?
Question number one the hospital tank is a 29 gallon, and I am wondering what do I do for filtration. I have a brand new hob filter that came with a carbon filter that I run when I use it for a QT tank but now that I have copper in the water I assume I shouldn't run the filter? So I just do water changes then with no filtration and how often do I do water changes on the hospital tank.
Question 2, I accidently put a shrimp into the hospital tank as I usually have one in during QT periods forgetting that shrimp and copper probably are a bad combo. The copper wasn't as strong as it needed to be before I realized my mistake but he was probably in the water for 10-15 minutes before I realized. Is he doomed to death and if not can I put him back in my main display without killing my other inverts?