Ich, copper treatment

[JollyGreen]

I have a fish with ich in my main display, so I setup a quarantine tank for all of my fish. I have a small 3 in 1 filter, mechanical, chemical and biological, I took the activated carbon out. I plan on dosing with copper sulphate, for a month.

Does all of this sound good?

Anything else I should add to the tank?

Right now it's bare bottom with some pvc pipe for fish to hide.

Any help would be appreciated!

JG

 

[JollyGreen]

Oh yeah, fish are Blenny, clown, royal gramma, and six line wrasse, think all of those will be ok with a copper treatment?

JG

 

[pelochas]

i have the same setup

its been a month and my blue tang is looking pretty good

 

[GlobalEvan]

I just figured i would add my question to an existing thread.

I just figured i would add my question to an existing thread.

All my fish have ich and are in QT (four days now). I'm using "copper safe" and have tested the copper levels at 2ppm . They are going to be living there until after new years; I'm just wondering how long it will take to kill the ick that's on them now in the QT.

 

[Steven Pro]

Check the bottle. Most copper treatments only last for two weeks.

 

[JollyGreen]

Well, I had to take all the live rock out of my display tank to catch all the fish, it was only out for a couple minutes, but I got them all into the Hospital tank. After putting them in there, I realized the thing needs to cycle. I have a wheel bio-filter on there, but I was reading forums and people were saying to use bio-spira, do I need this or will the bio-wheel be enough? I was thinking of running to the fish store and getting some bio-spira real quick.

JG

 

[Steven Pro]

If the biowheel was running on the display, it should be well cycled. If not, the Bio-Spira is not a bad idea.