can copersafe ruin the tank?

[BadRoma1]

i'm looking at used tank and asked the owner if any meds were used in the tank. she said she used copersafe and i was wondering if it means that the tank is not coral and invert safe. thank you

 

[SpockthePuffer]

I'm not positive but I'm sure if you gave it a good cleaning with bleach it would be good to go.

 

[BadRoma1]

another possible issue is that she is not the first owner of the tank and someone had it couple of years before her

 

[BadRoma1]

oh, and she only has fish so there is no way for me to tell if anything stays alive in it

 

[SpockthePuffer]

what size is it and how much are they asking?

If its a good deal, you could always get it and clean it with bleach and what not. If that ends up being a problem you could always keep a lizard of some sort!

 

[BadRoma1]

I can't afford looking at it that way because i don't keep anything else that could go in the tank. on top of that i'm trying to put two tank together that i already have with corals and shrimp. asking price is $600.00 for tank and stand 220g. 74"24"32" or something like that. there is fish in it like puffer with blind eye, butterfly of some kind, foxface and eel, which i can't keep any of them. the stand is light custom made wood but the trim of the tank doesn't match the stand. what do you think? sound kinds high i think.

 

[Germanman]

tank should be fine after a good cleaning like the other poster said above...but i wouldn't use anything absorbent, (like rock/deco), due to the fact that it may still have some copper in it. should be fine for a fish only....but if you doing a reef its not worth the risk.

 

[BadRoma1]

thank you. i just didn' want to be rational as far as getting this tank goes, because i would hate to kill all my stuff by a new tank and i don't know if coppersafe is the same thing as copper.

 

[Dale W.]

If the tank is glass, the copper will adhere to the silicone. If it is a plex tank, the copper will get into the scratches. Bleach will not do anything for copper as it is a heavy metal and not an organic. I have used them in the past without any problems but you have to scrub the tank out better than good, fill it up and use a copper binding solution to nuetralize the remaining copper if there is any.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yes, there is a Cu removing solution you should use but I forget what it's called.