Question

[Psionicdragon]

I am currently battling ick in my hospital tank. I have set it currently to a hyposalinity treatment.

However, I have a few questions. I removed all these fishes into the current QT tank. The corals are left in the current DT to be left fallow for 3 months or so.

The current QT tank will become a DT tank after the treatment. What is the best way to do the conversion? Should I take out all the fishes and dry the tank with a space heater then refill the tank after the treatment is done?

Also, if I am planning to do a double wammy on the ick issue. I plan to add copper to the tank and wanted to know if the copper will adhere to the acrylic. Would the tank be usable as a reef tank afterwards?

Thanks in advance

 

[Avi]

Some of the copper is possibly going to leech back into the water. If you apply some chemical medium that would remove copper from the water over a significant period of time at some point the copper would no longer pose a risk your use as a reef tank but it's difficult to say precisely how long that would take. It's best to not use the tank unless you have plenty of time to spare and you're willing to run it with the kind of medium to assure that there are no traces of copper capable of effecting your coral/inverts negatively.

 

[wooden_reefer]

I am currently battling ick in my hospital tank. I have set it currently to a hyposalinity treatment.

However, I have a few questions. I removed all these fishes into the current QT tank. The corals are left in the current DT to be left fallow for 3 months or so.

The current QT tank will become a DT tank after the treatment. What is the best way to do the conversion? Should I take out all the fishes and dry the tank with a space heater then refill the tank after the treatment is done?

Also, if I am planning to do a double wammy on the ick issue. I plan to add copper to the tank and wanted to know if the copper will adhere to the acrylic. Would the tank be usable as a reef tank afterwards?

Thanks in advance

Copper will not adhere to any non-calcareous material like glass or acrylic.