Hey everyone, I have two aquariums, a 75 gallon I've had for almost 2 years and a 93 gallon that I've had for coming up on six months that caught velvet and had three fish survive. I just set up a 40 gallon tank with copper and caught my yellow wrasse and two firefish and got them in the copper treatment and have the 93 gallon fishless. So I have a few questions from here:
Because I have a healthy second tank, can I release the fish from the tank with velvet into it after I treat them for 3 weeks in the copper? The affected 93 gallon will have to be fallow 8 weeks so I am trying to keep the fish in copper only as much as is necessary for the parasites in them to be wiped out.
I made the mistake of placing one huge unattached birdsnest coral in the copper tank so it wouldn't get crushed inside the Rubbermaid tubs that I put my live rock in while fishing for my firefish. It looks like **** and is nearly bleached after being exposed to the copper , do you think it might make a comeback? It was in there for several hours before I realized and put it back in the tank after I got the rocks set back up back in the water.
In the process of taking rocks out to capture the damn firefish I knocked some acropora around and broke several pieces off and generally ****ed off and disturbed all my corals. now that the water is clearing up today most all of my corals still look very bad. Is there a chance that some
Toxins were released or could it possibly be that bird nest coral took up copper and is releasing it back into the water now? My snails seem fine but nearly every single coral seems affected, even big xenias have started to shrink up.. I put some carbon in a reactor and did add probably 40% or 35 gallons of fresh saltwater back in after cleaning up and vacuuming/ draining water, however I vacuumed the water out prior to setting the rocks back up and disturbing the corals then added fresh saltwater, and did not draw off/ change water after the corals were broken and potentially released some nasty stuff.
Essentially, I had to catch some evasive fish and tear my tank apart to let it go fallow for velvet and after doing so my corals are bleaching and don't have any polyp extension. I'm getting a little worried and wonder if anyone has any anecdotal experience. Will carbon help much or is the damage done? It's been over 24 hours so far
Thanks.
Because I have a healthy second tank, can I release the fish from the tank with velvet into it after I treat them for 3 weeks in the copper? The affected 93 gallon will have to be fallow 8 weeks so I am trying to keep the fish in copper only as much as is necessary for the parasites in them to be wiped out.
I made the mistake of placing one huge unattached birdsnest coral in the copper tank so it wouldn't get crushed inside the Rubbermaid tubs that I put my live rock in while fishing for my firefish. It looks like **** and is nearly bleached after being exposed to the copper , do you think it might make a comeback? It was in there for several hours before I realized and put it back in the tank after I got the rocks set back up back in the water.
In the process of taking rocks out to capture the damn firefish I knocked some acropora around and broke several pieces off and generally ****ed off and disturbed all my corals. now that the water is clearing up today most all of my corals still look very bad. Is there a chance that some
Toxins were released or could it possibly be that bird nest coral took up copper and is releasing it back into the water now? My snails seem fine but nearly every single coral seems affected, even big xenias have started to shrink up.. I put some carbon in a reactor and did add probably 40% or 35 gallons of fresh saltwater back in after cleaning up and vacuuming/ draining water, however I vacuumed the water out prior to setting the rocks back up and disturbing the corals then added fresh saltwater, and did not draw off/ change water after the corals were broken and potentially released some nasty stuff.
Essentially, I had to catch some evasive fish and tear my tank apart to let it go fallow for velvet and after doing so my corals are bleaching and don't have any polyp extension. I'm getting a little worried and wonder if anyone has any anecdotal experience. Will carbon help much or is the damage done? It's been over 24 hours so far
Thanks.
