Can you test your water for Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate when using COPPER POWER...

[TheSwampFox]

Wanting to know if I can test them in my hospital tank or if they are only going to give me a false reading.

I am pretty sure Copper Power is an amine based copper treatment.

 

[TheSwampFox]

well, here's a hopeful bump.

 

[Zoodiver]

You'll probably have false readings.... depending on the test kit. Most warn you right no the outside.

 

[FLESHY]

Do h2o changes on hospital tanks like no other...the whole point is to keep them very sterile...if you are worrying about nitrate build up in there, you probably arent running the tightest QT.

 

[TheSwampFox]

Do h2o changes on hospital tanks like no other...the whole point is to keep them very sterile...if you are worrying about nitrate build up in there, you probably arent running the tightest QT.

Right now I'm doing water changes every 3 days, and they've held up so far through the process.

Thank God they can finally go back in the main tank on Sunday... Marine Ich is a pain in the ***!

 

[FLESHY]

Yea, keep h2o and diet quality up, stress down and you should never get marine ich.

When you do, its usually a sign that you are doing something wrong.

 

[TheSwampFox]

Yea, keep h2o and diet quality up, stress down and you should never get marine ich.

When you do, its usually a sign that you are doing something wrong.

Well a fish came in with it, of course me being new to salt I didn't quarantine... The fish that brought it in died and now I have a quarantine tank in which every newly bought fish will go.

You live and you learn, as they say.

 

[FLESHY]

QT is a good idea...but essentially is only for "removing" disease from fish.

The thing that sucks is that it is basically impossible to replicate tank settings in a QT, but still a good idea.

I dont run one at home...yet...I will as my stocking gets high, because that is a stressful situation and it will take less to have an outbreak.

That being said I have added fish that were otherwise healthy with ich to display tanks and never had an outbreak because of it. Happy fish.