Can I redose my tanki?

[sphenta]

Last night I had to treat my tank with coppersafe because of ick. And I just remembered that I put a new carbon in the filter just 3 days ago. Now what? Can I take carbon out and remedicate? I really don't know what to do. Don't want to over medicate. But the fish do look worse today then they did last night.

 

[OrangeCones]

I've never used the medication. You might try to raise the heat up to 85 if the fish can tolorate it.

 

[Thyra]

Most of the "old-timers" on this forum do not use medication to treat ich. The remedy most often recommended is just raise the temp as OC says and vacuum the substrate daily for at least two weeks. (This is to get rid of the spores that drop off the fish)

 

[KcMopar]

Is this a salt tank or fresh water tank? If freshwater just do the temp treatment.

 

[djm761]

carbon will not remove copper

 

[KcMopar]

Its only called coppersafe because is does not contain copper so you can us it in saltwater tanks.

 

[djm761]

Its only called coppersafe because is does not contain copper so you can us it in saltwater tanks.

I've used formalite II, in the past, thougth coppersafe was the samething.

 

[KcMopar]

There is so much out there its hard to keep track of it all.

 

[djm761]

I didnt like the formalite do you think coppersafe would be a better choice for parisites

 

[KcMopar]

I would not recommend anything for ich as its easily treated by raising the temp. Other parasites may need to treated but its best to due so in a separate tank. I have never used either of these lately. I have used copper safe years ago for some SW ich that was hard to get by the temp treatment and it seemed to be ok.

 

[djm761]

I would not recommend anything for ich as its easily treated by raising the temp. Other parasites may need to treated but its best to due so in a separate tank. I have never used either of these lately. I have used copper safe years ago for some SW ich that was hard to get by the temp treatment and it seemed to be ok.

I agree Ich is easy I like the salt and temp method, guess I never tried it with out the salt. My real parasite problems started when I ordered wild caught corys online, nothing but problems for about 2 months, 8 of the 10 wild caught are gone now, the other 2 are in a hospital tank, but the real sad thing for me was I lost 10 or more of my old cats that I've had for years, From now on I'll find tank raised

 

[KcMopar]

I totally agree on the tank raised. I wont even buy salt water that are not tank raised. The biggest advantage with tank raised is they eat dried foods while some wild caught may starve before they learn its food. Good luck with your corys. Do they have a parasite? I have never used salt when I treated ich, the temp always worked OK except for the one time with SW.

 

[djm761]

I totally agree on the tank raised. I wont even buy salt water that are not tank raised. The biggest advantage with tank raised is they eat dried foods while some wild caught may starve before they learn its food. Good luck with your corys. Do they have a parasite? I have never used salt when I treated ich, the temp always worked OK except for the one time with SW.

I think its under control now as I stated in a earlier post corys are hard to treat, but I found that they will tolerate about a 60% dose of clout.

ADDED: I ended up at 60% with clout, But I started at 40% and slowly increased the dose over time.

 

[sphenta]

Thanks everyone for your replys. Answered my questions.

 

[OrangeCones]

My real parasite problems started when I ordered wild caught corys online, nothing but problems for about 2 months, 8 of the 10 wild caught are gone now, the other 2 are in a hospital tank, but the real sad thing for me was I lost 10 or more of my old cats that I've had for years, From now on I'll find tank raised

I think it depends on the source of your wild-caught fish. Of the 6 species of fish I have, all are wild-caught. I've never had disease/parasite issues with one exception: I had ordered 10 Otocinclus cocama and when they arrived, all had Ich. One died within two hours (prior to being released into the hospital tank) and the 2nd one less than 24 hours later. The shipper refunded the cost of both fish (now THAT is unusal!). The rest were treated only with high heat and have remained healthy for the past 2 years.

The supplier I use treats for internal/external parasites automatically before selling and does not sell/ship out until they have passed a quarantine and are eating well.