As of tonight, 1.89ppm...
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So, I've been treating the tank with Furan-2 and Kanaplex for 8 days straight now as per instructions on the box, is it still safe to continue with these antibiotics for 6 more days making for a total of 14 day antibiotic treatment? Even though the instructions on the antibiotics say a "MAXIMUM OF 3 DOSES"?
Yes. I have done it several times.
How are the fish doing?
The fish are doing much better, their fins are growing back very well, eating like pigs, wrasses are hunting among the rocks and angelfishare picking at the rocks.. However, those mysterious white spots on the powder blue come and go back and forth.. so we will see with that. In addition, he is still blind and hasnt eaten anything since... He went blind in the display tank and ended up crashing into a bunch of SPS and breaking multiple branches.. I though he went blind because of the velvet... thinking the vision would come back once the velvet was eradicated.. his symptoms were swimming in small circles pretty fast and bumping into everything in the tank... at times it looked like he would get better, as in he wouldnt be bumping into no where near as many things and swimming very "chill" and taking it easy, but he never fully recovered... any ideas?
Just checked the copper level and its at 1.78ppm
@HotRocks
So I've been reading about dosing vitamins into the QT that they boost their immunity and help remove heavy metals/toxins in the fishs liver/body? Vitamin C and B Complex vitamins? They also increase fish appetite? Is it safe to use during copper treatment?
@HotRocks
@Humblefish
Yes, Seachem PRIME detoxifies Amonia, Nitrite and Nitrate, but it does say it will detoxify Heavy Metals which would affect Copper. So do your research before using.Is there a product out there that will neutralize/bind to ammonia so that it is not toxic to the fish? Kind of like the de-chlorinator for chlorine?
Yes, Seachem PRIME detoxifies Amonia, Nitrite and Nitrate, but it does say it will detoxify Heavy Metals which would affect Copper. So do your research before using.
As far as vitamins, I use Seachem Zoe for both DT and QT (meds but not copper), and again do your research before mixing products.
Glad to hear this. You've done an excellent job with this.So just an update, all of the fish are still doing well and all are eating like pigs, keeping the copper levels at 1.75ppm and finished 2 weeks of antibiotics (kanaplex and Furan-2) and was wondering if I should prophylactically treat them with anything else during or after copper? Perhaps for internal perasites just to be safe? Or? Please let me know!
Agree. Great job, op!!Brown is just a bowel irritation. As long as it's not white you are fine. My dwarf angels have brown stringy poop every once in a while.