Lesson Learned

[gowyn]

So a couple of weeks ago my fish came down with Ich. Pulled them out of DT into a quarantine tank (32gallon.)

Coming along nicely, all better.

So yesterday was time for a water change. Took out 20% and thought I’d “top up” the medication.

So added some more PraziPro and 1ml of Cupramine. I don’t test for Cu mainly because most tests are inaccurate.

Anyway all done. Happened by the QT tank a couple of hours later and uh oh! All fish were panting. My Flame Angel was lying on its side. Not good.

I figured too much Cu so did a 60% water change (all I had on hand.). Luckily within an hour all fish were back to their normal selves.

Got REAL lucky.

Moral of the story, either test or be very careful adding meds.


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[harleymike]

Mine are in cuppermine now, and I test.
The test kit from Seachem is accurate.

 

[Copperkills]

So a couple of weeks ago my fish came down with Ich. Pulled them out of DT into a quarantine tank (32gallon.)

Coming along nicely, all better.

So yesterday was time for a water change. Took out 20% and thought I’d “top up” the medication.

So added some more PraziPro and 1ml of Cupramine. I don’t test for Cu mainly because most tests are inaccurate.

Anyway all done. Happened by the QT tank a couple of hours later and uh oh! All fish were panting. My Flame Angel was lying on its side. Not good.

I figured too much Cu so did a 60% water change (all I had on hand.). Luckily within an hour all fish were back to their normal selves.

Got REAL lucky.

Moral of the story, either test or be very careful adding meds.


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Gotta be careful because Copperkills

 

[Seame]

Hi, I know this post is aging a bit but I found this forum today and was browsing a few.

Always check on line when mixing chemicals. Cupramine and Prazipro are not safe to use at the same time and can be deadly. Seachem has a question and answer forum and searching you will see they state not to mix these two.

Similar cupramine and Prime are not good to mix together, I learned that one the hard way myself.

When using cupramine it's a good idea to have an established biofilter like a sponge filter or hang on the back filter so you don't have ammonia spikes in your quarantine tank.

 

[loonie8]

Its good, we share our experiences, all of us do have had bad experiences once awhile, sometimes we do not know the answer. Last Dec, lost a lot of new fish, a lot of money gone due to my mistake, despite they were in a QT tank. I used a kind of construction glue for my divider since its strong but did not know it produce kind of chemical which will affect the chemistry of the water. I did not figure out why the fish were dying until sometime later. What I did, I soak the divider in water, a hour later I find there was kind of foaming white substance floating, its strange, so I figure out this must be the reason. Yes, angry I was for my mistake, I threw it away, bought a couple of damsel fish as test fish, they are doing fine now for 2months, so it confirms my mistake. Just sharing what happen to me.

 

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