What is in Coppersafe?

[slow_leak]

I can't determine if Mardel Coppersafe is copper sulfate with citric acid or copper sulfate with EDTA.

Does anyone know? Can you recommend it as effective. It is a bit tricky to eradicate ich so most info is hard to believe. I can make 1:1 Copper Sulfate with Citric Acid if necessary.

 

[JHemdal]

slow leak,

Coppersafe is not chelated with citric acid. It uses a much stronger chelating agent, possibly EDTA.

I've used it for 30+ years, and anecdotally, I've found that while it works well as a preventative, it is not very effective at reducing acute infections. Case in point; I recently added three triggerfish with active Cryptocaryon infections to a quarantine system containing 10+ other fish. Coppersafe was in the system at normal levels. The Cryptocaryon continued unabated, and the three triggers died, yet none of the other fish ever had a visible infection. For active infections, I prefer using copper sulfate, citric acid at 0.20 ppm. HOWEVER, once you add Coppersafe, its higher reading on the poryphrin copper test overshadows the low level testing needed for a copper/citric acid treatment....

Jay

 

[RBU1]

Cupramine seems to be the copper of choice....

 

[slow_leak]

Jay

That was exactly the detail I was looking for. I suspected sequestered with citric acid would be more available to effect ich, but it not explicitly written. I have lab grade Copper Sulfate and natural citric acid available. Salifert test kit should do fine.

I have a baby atlantic blue tang right now at 80C under care, with no visible illness and eating a little squid.. It is really a bit of effort to do this right. He will be there till year end. Only trade name I encountered that was just Copper Sulfate was Snail-B-Gone as a direct solution, so i made my own. Lot's of testing for a few weeks.

I have a Naso and 2 clowns to join him in December sometime. Only Name brand additive I'm using is Brightwell MicroBacter7 to help filtration. I hope it helps but will check ammonia every few days.

Drew