stratmaster
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hey guys,
I had an incident with some ich in my tank. Because I have a california stingray and I had to use copper on my emperor angel, I had to setup a hospital tank and dose the copper seperately to the emperor there. All is going well with the emp, but I am concerned because some black specs have developed all over my Ray overnight. Could it be copper poisoning? I messed up in that I was using the same bucket to do the water changes on the hospital tank (with the copper in it) that I use on my display tank. Could the copper have some how leached in the bucket and when I used it to add water to my display tank, there's a small amount of copper that mixed in and now there's copper effecting my Ray? I also was moving my floater hydrometer between the hospital tank and display tank. Or are the black spots not related to the copper? Do you think I should be using a different bucket for the hospital tank so there's no chance of copper going into the display tank?
Also when the emperor is done with the 21 day quarantine period and I'm ready to the move the emp back to the display tank, the copper won't like leach out of his system into the display tank will it?
Thanks,
Steve
I had an incident with some ich in my tank. Because I have a california stingray and I had to use copper on my emperor angel, I had to setup a hospital tank and dose the copper seperately to the emperor there. All is going well with the emp, but I am concerned because some black specs have developed all over my Ray overnight. Could it be copper poisoning? I messed up in that I was using the same bucket to do the water changes on the hospital tank (with the copper in it) that I use on my display tank. Could the copper have some how leached in the bucket and when I used it to add water to my display tank, there's a small amount of copper that mixed in and now there's copper effecting my Ray? I also was moving my floater hydrometer between the hospital tank and display tank. Or are the black spots not related to the copper? Do you think I should be using a different bucket for the hospital tank so there's no chance of copper going into the display tank?
Also when the emperor is done with the 21 day quarantine period and I'm ready to the move the emp back to the display tank, the copper won't like leach out of his system into the display tank will it?
Thanks,
Steve