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  1. I just tested the copper level that my QT tank is at, to see if the fish are ready to come out, and for over the 14day period it's been at 1.10ppm, and when I converted it to mg/L(how the medicine refers to the levels), its 1.1, which is almost twice the recommended dose, and still WAY over the apparent maximum safe dose on .8 mg/L! Can this be right? I have relatively sensitive fish in it, and they have all been happy and healthy the entire time--Bangaii cardinals, firefish, cleaner wrasse, green chromis(by the way, why are they so extremely delicate these days? They used to be crazy hardy!). I'm using cupramine, and the dose I'm going by is on the bottle, so Its definitely referring to the correct type of copper. this is similar to before when I was treating my main tank after the oodinium or brooklynella event last year, and when I got the Hanna copper test kit, it turned out just following the directions put the level over 1.5, with angels, tangs, and a butterfly, which I can't imagine would have all survived if the level was truly twice the maximum safe level. Whats the deal here, there's gotta be some mistake somewhere. Are the numbers and dose info all correct and my fish are just all from krypton, or are the number/dose info off, and im not treating with a high enough dose?
  2. 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!
  3. 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?
  4. The copper meds(cupramine)specifically say to be sure to turn off UV sterilizers, but that just doesn't seem right to me. How coulda a UV sterilizer have any affect whatsoever on copper? A sterilizer would make treatment like a million times better, but it says to turn it off. I dont want to do anything to hinder treatment at ALL, but the amount of additional help the UV would do working TOGETHER, is too much to not look into.
  5. Does anyone have experience or knowledge of ammonia burn? I've thankfully never had any experience with it, and although it just doesn't seem at all likely, cause there was no way it was over-ammonia'd on my end, and although it says it usually doesn't show up until 2-3days after the exposure, I really do trust where I got it from, but i haven't found any other issue that fits the symptoms like it. seems its treatable, but I'm just freaked out cause it seems pretty serious, and I've almost never had anything come back from this state, albeit it's always been because of other issues. A fish laying down all day, only moving when touched, when it starts shaking and jerking in place at first. Then it CAN keep itself up and swim a bit but it obviously wants to just go back down and lay on the ground again. It would lay on its side, or however it, but it's been positioned upright but leaning. It was breathing pretty heavy all morning but has been breathing much closer to normal, although when it breathes its open fast/close fast, instead of gently open/close. Except earlier when I was gently lifting it up now&then to check on it, it's been totally motionless other than mouth, gills, and slight tail due to gentle current. can....DO things really recover from this level of problem? Writing that includes these symptoms(as the more serious ones)seem to consider it treatable, but that really doesn't mean much. I haven't medicated yet because I don't want to stress it with a move to a smaller tank(yet). I've done big water changes, added air directly behind it, and it's between 2nfilter intakes(not touching, just close, so it'll have more but still gentle flow, and of the additionally oxygenated air(however slightly). I'd hoped to see some improvement, but nothing yet other than the breathing.
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