has anyone treated a large fowlr with cp ?

[dominic]

I have a total of 500 gal with sump and was going to buy that cp off ebay just in case .
I qt everything but you never know .
I would never be able to treat these guys separate they are huge angles so if I ever needed to I am seeing if anyone has done it in the display of a large tank.

 

[jbvdhp]

I think someone is currently doing it now... you should try to search it, i remember seeing it recently

 

[tkeracer619]

Yes, but you will need to pull anything calcium based including the live rock and sand.

It is a serious undertaking. I recommend picking up a 150 gallon rubbermaid stock tank or two for your live rock.

 

[ca1ore]

CP will kill inverts and algae, but as this is a FOWLR, not sure why calcium-based materials would need to be removed? There was somebody here in this forum who treated a rock filled tank with CP, you'd have to search - I cannot recall who it was - with success I believe.

 

[alprazo]

I have treated a 1500 gal display. I typically dose my QT tanks that are 600 or 125 gal for every new fish. No different than a 20 gal except you have to put more in.

There is no issue with calcium based substrate. I think the poster is confused with copper.

For established systems with a fair amount of algae, keep an eye on the ammonia level.

I haven't heard great things from the eBay store. I pretty sure they buy it by the kilo off Alibaba. You can do the same for ~ $60 /kilo and get the same stuff for much mush cheaper. I have researched it and traced the reported location of manufacture back to one of the office share buildings in China, where you can rent an address, desk and phone number of a physical space for meetings with clients. It kind of like a business time share. That was about two or three years ago, but I have a feeling things have not changed much.

 

[tkeracer619]

I'm not confusing it with copper, maybe I misread something or there is conflicting opinions in one of the many threads.

Has someone with the equipment capable of making the measurements confirmed it is not absorbed?

 

[alprazo]

Chloroquine binds to glass and proteins like heme, but it is not like some meds that will complex out from calcium or calcium bicarbonate. Concentration in the aquarium water vs concentration in the fish or specifically concentration in the lysosomes of the parasite is what truly matters. In a glass tank, it has been shown that the levels are high enough to kill and microscopically free a fish of velvet in hours. In practice it also works in a tank full of live rock. All of my initial work with it involved tanks with live rock. This is at a dose of 10 mg/l. Studies in Ich were lacking the last time I looked.

These studies are referenced in an earlier thread.

 

[tkeracer619]

Good to know, thanks.