Engineer goby

[Adam624]

Ive treated my fish with copper, finding out engineer gobys dont do well in this treatment, what can i do to save him?!

 

[Lilly45nano]

sorry ...short of removing from tank...maybe mix up 5 gal bucket of salt and air stone and heater?

 

[Lilly45nano]

this is only a way to get the fish out of the copper treated water until one of the admins offers help

Mix enough for 3 gallons of water ...make sure your salinity and temp is close and you have the air stone working below the surface of the bucket also that the heater is in a jacket so it wont burn the bucket.

5 or 10 gallon tank setups are always a good idea to keep around for just these kind of emergency's.

hope everything turns out okay for you

 

[Adam624]

Thanks alot lilly45nano i will do that, i had an outburst of velvet all recovering nice apart from the goby iv just realised with the copper.

 

[gone fishin]

what are you treating for? if velvet then a freshwater dip followed by a formalin bath works better than copper IMO. There are stickies in the fish disease forum on the topic.

I will assume you do not have anything like cuprisorb on hand. Basically your option is to remove the fish from the copper or do a large enough WC to dilute the copper. Good luck