Does copper in meds bother rays

[Florencebigfish]

I got two syno decorus catfish in my 120 with bat girl and some how they got ich. Ive treated my ray tanks with aquari-sol before and now i noticed the bottle i got today says it contains soluble copper salts. Will that hurt her???

 

[keepinfish]

I would not use it

 

[Florencebigfish]

What would be the best thing to use? Just raise temp then?

 

[keepinfish]

Add some salt, maybe 1# per 100 gal
&
Raise the temp

Or move to different tank and then treat

 

[Florencebigfish]

Just use like aquarium salt? Rock crystals.

 

[T1KARMANN]

this is the strange thing i used esha 2000 in my ray tank a few time to treat a group of uaru.f i had problems with and it had no effect on the rays

i even contacted esha before i treated to confirm it was ok

so when i had this gill worm problem the 1st thing i used was esha 2000

when lots of people told me it had copper in i removed it from the tank asap but the rays were showing NO signs of distress with it in the tank

i know copper is meant to be a big no but i may have just been lucky to get away with it

 

[Just Toby]

Also, if you can add a UV made for Aquariums (TMC Vecton are brilliant) then it will kill the larval stage of the cycle and stop it happening again.

I have had Puffers and Clown Loaches in the past for many years and not once had an outbreak and both of those fish are the "kings" of ICH.

I run 2 500litre UVS on my tank - as does T1 and change the tubes regularly. T1 recently let me know that the arcadia tubes last 1 yr.

You need to be careful with treatments and flow the water at the correct rate....too fast and they will not work.

Hope this helps