Copper Treatment in Quarantine Tank

[J_Vee]

Copper Treatment in Quarantine Tank

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I tried treating my main tank with "Chem Marin Stop Parisites" for 5 days. My Cinnamon clown fish still has the white spots. So I broke down and bought a Marineland Eclipse 12 gallon tank for Quarantine treatment with copper. I only have one small Watchman Goby, Yellow tail Damsel, Cinnamon Clown fish and Long nose hawkfish. (All of them are small size)
I have several questions:
1. Do I have to remove my Biowheel and filtration media for the copper treatment ? (I am using SeaCure and it did not say to do so)

2. How long do I leave the fish in the Quarantine tank ? (2 weeks or a month)

3. The only thing left in the 30 gallon tank is 1 Horseshoe crab, do I have to do any treatment on the this tank ?

4. Once the fish are treated, and returned to the 30 gallon tank, do I dispose of that water or can I use it to quarantine new fish in the furture ?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Joe

 

[thegreatpablo]

Here's a combination of all of the good advice I've received. Move all of your fish to the q-tank, treat with copper. Bring the temp up to around 82-84 if you haven't already, and lower the salinity to a SG of about 1.008.

You don't want to have anything in your q-tank that will absorb the copper, including carbon, biowheels, substrate, etc. I'm running my q-tank right now with just a powerhead, heater, and piece of pvc pipe for the fish to hide. Keep ammonia levels down with very frequent water changes.

On your main tank, I'd let it run fishless for 6 weeks and maybe use a reef safe med, such as Ruby Kick Ich during that time. Ich can stick around for 4-6 weeks, but without any fish, it will die off.

Just remember to keep feeding your crab.