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That is fantastic! It's amazing how things always seem to work out in the end for people who go out of their way to do the right thing.Been running carbon for a few days in a filter sock and the return pump output flowing into the sock, but hasn't affected the copper level yet. I'm assuming the water is just flowing around the carbon in the sock, so I hooked up an old avast reactor last night and doubled the carbon inside, so hopefully this setup will filter the copper out of the water soon. If not, I'll do another 100 gallon water change this weekend to reduce it.
In other news that makes me glad I did this quarantine when I did; we just went under contract on a new home (Which already has a climate controlled storage room outside, right next to the exterior wall the tank will sit by, FINALLY a fish room!!). We plan on closing middle of April, and my fallow period will expire a couple weeks before that, so this will work out perfect. I'll already have a temporary housing for the livestock setup, so I can move the tank and all equipment without having to stress about keeping the livestock alive, and I won't have to go through the stress of catching all the fish again out of the display, just scoop out of the QT when the tank is back up and running.
*And I'll be starting up at the new place with an Ich free tank! I'll also have room for a coral quarantine setup at the new house, so everything will go through quarantine before going in the display.
When you get a build thread going for your new system started make sure you link it in here. I will definitely be following along!Thanks @Brew12 ! I'm ecstatic about the getting to spread out all my equipment in a dedicated room, so I can properly access and maintain it with ease. I'll keep you all updated on that, but I plan on starting Prazipro as soon as I get the copper out of the system. It's so great looking at my fish and not seeing ich for the first time ever! My pyramid butterflies always had a spot or two on their faces..pretty awesome no longer seeing them suffer with that annoyance!
Activated carbon will only remove copper that has been bound to other impurities in the water so it is a very slow process. You should get much better results with the Cuprasorb.Well I was gone for the weekend and got home last night to another dead wrasse; so I'm down to 1 lone wrasse survivor, but everyone else is still doing great, without any signs of lympho. I did a large water change a week ago and have been running a lot of carbon through a reactor, but my levels haven't come down after a week of copper usage. I did another 100 gallon water change last night, and have some Cuprasorb arriving today from amazon, so I'll throw that in the reactor and hopefully it will take the remaining copper out.
Is that unusual for carbon to not remove the coppersafe? I just dumped a bunch in so not sure how much was in there, but it was a copious amount, more than enough for 200 gallons of water.
+1, using carbon is a very slow process for copper removal. I've used the .5L cuprisorb in a reactor for 300g qt systems with multiple poly filter pads where they will have water forced through them in main drain area with much higher effectiveness/better efficiency.Activated carbon will only remove copper that has been bound to other impurities in the water so it is a very slow process. You should get much better results with the Cuprasorb.