Copper on rays

[yUwEn]

Hi all, I've a 300gallon fowlr tank. It was treated with copper before. What i want to ask is that can a stingray survive if it was previously treated with copper. The brand of the copper i used is cupramine.

 

[TX_REEF]

@lion king I know you're the monster fish expert, any thoughts?

 

[Sharkbait19]

Have you done anything to remove the copper from the water/tank? Have you tested levels to see if they are still positive?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

You can try and remove any copper in the rocks/sand using cuprisorb and poly filters.

I’ve heard similar to lion king’s comment from others: water changes with cuprisorb and poly filters seems to work (at least in some cases).

Some threads with examples:

has anyone ever treated display tank with copper and recorded long term issues after the fact?

im forced into treating my display with cupramine and was wondering if anyone on here has in detail recorded a daily log of how hard it was to stabilize copper to proper levels in a display tank/how long it took to remove it/how they removed it/what issues they face long term due to doing so. if...

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Copper treatment in a DT, Documented

Hello everyone. I have Ich in my DT. I tried using ich-x which worked well when it was in use, but the day I stopped dosing it, the ich showed back up. because my tank is very new, I have no corals yet, and very few inverts at all. I decided after reading the thread by @Marc88 , I would make my...

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[yUwEn]

Have you done anything to remove the copper from the water/tank? Have you tested levels to see if they are still positive?

I've done a water change and turned on my protein skimmer recently. I will test the levels later on.