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I'm doing an introduction 2month copper treatment after finally adding my new angels, but I want to be 100% sure it's effective enough--what are the ideal copper levels? I'm using cupramine. I remember there's a "standard" medication level, and i was told that some people double it, which I did after the oodinium or brooklynella murders, but I can't remember now(it's been the better part of a year, i think...maybe around 9+ months?). I think ideal/double was 50/100, but I don't want to end up having done 2 months of innefective treatment, and still be at serious risk. I got the API, and seachem copper tests, which are always off from each other by about .50ppm I believe, so I'm never 100% sure where I'm ever actually at, so I try to keep in mind I could be anywhere within that range. Of course I'm never totally sure anyway, cause the API instructions don't say if ur supposed to use the color visible while holding the vial in the air above the card(I believe that's correct), or against the card, which makes a significant difference(maybe from shadow/no shadow?), and the seachem test assumes you can eyeball the result from along a fading color scale where probably only a computer could differenciate anything within .50ppm!
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While treating oodinium(velvet?), or brooklynella, I'm not 100% sure which, luckily it doesn't matter for treatment, do the white spots show up again, through out treatment? I've never dealt with this stuff before. Every few days or so, I'll see a few white spots on someone, and i thought the treatment was supposed to interrupt the process, keeping them from reaching that stage, meaning my copper levels should be higher. They're already supposedly sufficiently high, so it's making me wonder if it's just not working, or if the parasites continue going through the stages, at least for a time. Does anyone have experience treating these jerks, and can give me an idea of what I'm seeing going on/what to expect/signs of successful and/or unsuccessful care?
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Why is it impossible to just get directions for a furan 2 bath? It neglects the info on the box, and only 1 place mentions a furan bath, at least without like 2 or 3 other things added too, but on the forum where it was brought up, no one answered the guys question, they just started talking about other crap! Lol the world is against me today! Or maybe against my poor fish:( I'd imagine a bath(not dip)would be 2x the aquarium dose, but I'm not gonna just risk it. Does anyone know what to dose it? It's a 5gal bucket, and the stuff is 1 packet for 10gals.
