just starting with rodi

[wrasse326]

im fixing to treat my fish and leave my tank empty for 9 weeks to let ich die off. found out you can't use dechlorinator with cupramine and I've always just used conditioned tap water. so i ordered a max water 6 stage ro di unit. what i need to know is can i go ahead and start my prazi pro treatment like i was planning and do my 50% water change after im done with that treatment and put ro Di water in then and be safe to start my cupramine treatment? is replacing 50% of the water with rodi water enough to be safe and be able to add the cupramine?

 

[MaiTank]

If your tank has no livestock. empty the tank and claen with vinegar.
If you have LR and or sand, then put it in a Brute garbage can and do water changes in the dark with treatment and mixing the sand with a pump for circulation. That way you can get the tank completely clean with vinegar. That also allows the LR to goin berfore the sand for stability.

 

[wrasse326]

Its a quarantine tank and there is already two clownfish and a cardinal on there. There's no live rock and just a thin layer of sand.. I really have to clean the tank that much just to replace with rodi water?

 

[MaiTank]

No, I just thought it was a new tank. Sorry. Just swap the rodi for the old water through water changes. 50 percent at first then 25 percent every week for 6 weeks should do it. The rodi will just produce less problems

 

[wrasse326]

Oh ok.. well after I do the first 50% water change will that be enough of a change to put cupramine in

 

[MaiTank]

That sounds good

 

[MaiTank]

Haven't used it, but it sounds like a safe product.

 

[wrasse326]

I had just read you can't use dechlorinator with it. I thought it was just ammonia detoxifiers you couldn't use it with but then I read a couple other websites that said you can't even use dechlorinator..

 

[MaiTank]

Well after 50% and a week then 25%. No dechlorinator should be left.