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Cupramine and Prazipro in QT tank at the same time?
I have some fish that are in a QT tank that has ich and flukes. Is it okay to use cupramine and prazipro at the same time?
From my search on the subject it seem 50/50 say yay/nay. |
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TTM and PP would be the best treatment.
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However if you are running cupramine at treatment levels, then you might notice some fish stop eating. that typically doesn't have anything to do with adding prazi. Good Luck! |
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Be careful. If using Cupramine, you need a copper test kit. Best of luck
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I use both products exclusively in my quarantine protocol, although not usually at the same time.
I typically take twice the time the bottle recommends to get to the active dose of cupramine. Are you certain you have flukes? You may be able to get out of it, or at least provide some immediate relief with freshwater dips. The tang may struggle with cupramine, I would not take it to the full dose on the bottle, typically a final dose of 0.4 has been sufficient for me in the past.
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I'm testing with salifert copper test, slowly adding the cupramine. I'm at .10 tonight.
One eye is cloudy on my emperor, and as of today looks like it's peeling. So it could be the fluke coming off his eye? From prazipro, I already added it Sunday before this post |
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Picture might be helpful. If he's got flukes and you out it in freshwater, they will all come off in about 3-5 minutes.
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I don't think that is accurate that all fish will have ich though. But IF that is true, you can't treat something that you don't know. |
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I'm here to tell you though, that if you follow the same protocols every time, you can keep "ich prone" fish fairly easy. Everything that enters your tank must be treated though, that includes rocks, snails, shrimp, nets, tubes, hands, etc. not necessarily all by cupramine. But there can be no cross contamination of potentially untreated water to ich free tank water. Knock on wood, but my tank has never had an outbreak of ich in the past 4 or 5 years and I'm keeping multiple Angels and tangs, including an Achilles, I believe that is due entirely to the steps I take in quarantining fish. Like I said though, you are smart to know what makes you happy and to just enjoy what you have, that's not always easy In this hobby.
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For copper to have a chance, you are talking about long term; that makes answering the question diffiicult.
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Thanks Brian.
Back to the topic, as of last night cupramine at .25 and the fish are eating and looking good. The eye on my emperor cleared up. I do not plan to take the cupramine all the way up to .5, but will remain at .25 until prazipro treatment is done. Then I will remove the prazipro and get the cupramine up to treatment level of .5. |
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