urgent urgent problem

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obi1970

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hello

i have a big urgent problem with my tank i only keep fish no corals and last week my angelfish got really bad ich, i go to shop to get help and told shop owner i also have sharks and lionfish (bamboo sharks)
so he give some product that he insured it was save for my sharks have to add to he water ....
after a week i check my water again and i messure a treatment dose level of copper in my water 1ml/100l
its not marked on the bottle butt i tested the product and it has copper in it
now my sharks dont eat anymore i dont know if its because of the copper , i know that i have to avoid copper in shark tank


now my question:
how can i get ridd of the copper fast?
and how dangerous is copper for my sharks and what level will be safe again?
can i leave my shark in the tank and try to get ridd of the copper with extra water changes
i really want to do all to save my sharks
and what else you can recommend me to do?
i really need help on this!!!
(yes i plan to kill the shop owner and feed him to my sharks :p: )
because i have no possible way to take out the shark and putt them somwhere else

i allready plan to remmove all life rock tommorow

thx in advance Obi

ohh yes sorry for my crapy english (i am not a english native speaking)


some tank info
all parrameters for tank are good
tank 180 gallon (684 liter) + 240 filtration tank
bubble king skimmer
tunze streamers
 
You might get better responses if you post this in the saltwater forum. You said you have live rock but no corals which leads me to believe this is a saltwater setup, right? My understanding is that copper in a saltwater tank is very bad especially if you have corals, live rock, and or inverts such as snails, hermit crabs, and shrimps such as peppermint shrimps or cleaner shrimps. The copper once in the tank is very hard if not impossible to get out of the tank once it is there. It seems that once it gets in the tank it bonds to the silicone that bonds the aquarium togather and will not be removed. It then will start to leech out into the water killing most reef life such as snails and hermits as well as corals too. I would suggest doing some large water changes using RO water and if you are not doing it already, keep the protien skimmer going on max to try to skim some of this out of the system.

If your fish is sick with something like ick why did you treat in the main display tank? It is advisable in any set up but even more so with saltwater to have a quarentine tank set up for emergency situations such as this. That way you can isolate the sick fish in the quarentine(hospital tank) and treat him without affecting the main tank and the other fish. I had to learn this the hard way when a blue hippo tang brought ick to my main display tank and it was awful. I had to remove all the fish from the main display and treat them in a quarentine tank. (Try catching all these fish with 89 pounds of live rock in the tank). Then I had to let my tank go fallow (absolutely no fish in the main system)for nine weeks to make sure that the parasite was dead and gone before putting the fish back into the main tank very slowly like one at a time over the couse of several weeks. If you do not have a quarentine set up I strongly advise getting one. You can treat the sick fish easier and then your main tank will remain free of those nasty parasites that we all hate.

I am sorry that you are having this problem and oh by the way, if at all possible can you remove the live rock today so you do not have a lot of die off from the live rock? Do you have a container to put the live rock with a powerhead and a heater? In order to save the life on the live rock this is what is reecommended that you do.

Again I am sorry that you are having this problem.

Marinemom
 
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