Quarantine Questions - Sandbed

[DustinB]

So my small yellow tang finally died despite my best efforts. I was treating him in a 5 gallon bare tank for ich/fin rot with cupramine and maracyn two. Didn't make it 24 hours.

Went to petco, got into an argument with the manager, ended up with a replacement. Wouldn't budge on a refund. I'm going to go ahead and treat the new tang anyway with cupramine, which brings me to my questions.

I just got a 14g biocube to transfer the fish out of my 12g eclipse system. I have the new tang in the 12g eclipse tank getting settled. I have a 1.5" sandbed, no live rock, and an HOB filter.

I want to go ahead and treat the tang with cupramine for 4 weeks. Would I run into any problems with keeping the sandbed in during this treatment? I don't want to remove it with the fish in the tank. Anything to watch out for during this treatment? Never used curpamine before.

 

[skibum9884]

Depending on the type of sand, it is likely that it will absorb the Cupramine. I would recommend removing it. You could do so just by siphoning it out, shouldn't be too stressful for the tang.

 

[DustinB]

It's the aragonite sugar sized sand. Would I really be able to siphon 10 pounds out before draining all 12 gallons? I guess I could transfer most of the water to a holding tank and dump the sand out.

 

[MCCOOL]

My QT has special grade sea floor sand in it for my burrowing fish, and I haven't run into any problems dosing copper or prazipro. The sand might absorb a little, but you should be testing the level pretty often anyways, and it's easy to correct if it does absorb a little. just be aware you won't be able to use that sand for anything but the QT