Quarantine Tank for gold rim tang

[Tsmith1203]

Can someone help me out this week. I have a gold rim tang that I took out of my tank and put in a 10 gallon because I noticed some white spots on him. When he was in my main tank Alls he did was sit in front of a fan all day. He's not eatin right now and he's not lettin the cleaner shrimp clean him. So I was wondering if someone has a quarantine tank I could put him in till he's better.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

from my experience and other mays have experienced different, tangs very much like those cleaner wrasses.
They do a great job cleaning the tangs and other fish.

[Tsmith1203]

i went ahead and just put some copper in the tank he is in i'll get a new filter and do some good water changes to get the copper off the rocks.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Quarantine tanks should have nothing in it. If you are going to try the copper way you dont want the parasites a place to live. Did you do any research on copper and how much to use?

edit: warm water will also speed up the lifecycle. I have never had luck with copper. do you have some pics how bad the tang is?

[Southern Flame]

edit: warm water will also speed up the lifecycle. I have never had luck with copper. do you have some pics how bad the tang is?

Warm water will also keep oxygen levels low just keep the water temp stable around 76-78 degrees and remember tangs are scaleless fish and copper is harsh and if you treat with it GET the TEST KIT so you can TEST the water every day or twice a day to be on the safe side


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[kkiel02]

Copper will also kill your cleaner shrimp, along with any other inverts.

[Tsmith1203]

The cleaner shrimp didnt die with the copper in the tank and the tang is looking better every day he is swimming around more and the spots seem to be going away. i will take a picture of him when i get home to see what you all think. i think i'll leave him in the tank with copper for another week and see how he is doing then. The copper bottle i have has the instructions on how much to use and i also have a test kit to test daily.

[kkiel02]

What did the test kit read? With copper in the tank all your inverts(pods, shrimp, snails etc) should die. That's the downside of copper.

[Dean]

What did the test kit read? With copper in the tank all your inverts(pods, shrimp, snails etc) should die. That's the downside of copper.

Dang, in an established system that could be enough die off to kick start a cycle. I've never had to medicate for Ich. the one time I have dealt with it I knew no better and it killed the couple of fish I had. I just left the tank fallow for 4 months and ran a UV light. So I have never done much research until recently (getting a presentation ready for my fellow MAASTards for an upcoming meeting). Here is just a short note on the long term effect of copper meds on a marine tank.

"Treating with copper isn't difficult, but it must be done correctly to be effective and safe. The first rule is one that hopefully most saltwater aquarists have already heard: don't use copper with invertebrates. Anemones, crabs, shrimp, live corals, "live rock" and all the rest of the non-fish critters we might keep in an aquarium are killed by copper just as easily as, although perhaps more slowly than, the invertebrate Cryptocaryon. Generally this means moving all the fish to that different, properly set up and conditioned "quarantine" tank we're all supposed to have in waiting. Removing the invertebrates to other quarters and treating the main tank is another option, but removing all traces of copper after treatment is such a time-consuming and unreliable process that it would probably be best to never return invertebrates to that main tank again."
http://www.bestfish.com/copper.html was my source

[BBQHILLBILLY]

My experience using it, is that, I will never use it again. It seems as though the fish was struggling with the copper more than the ich. It takes more than a day. The parasite falls off and dies in the copper.
Ive lost a tang too copper. very sad

The good news I have found wherever there is a tang I will have cleaner wrasses and all the tangs are happy. o yea

[Southern Flame]

My experience using it, is that, I will never use it again. It seems as though the fish was struggling with the copper more than the ich. It takes more than a day. The parasite falls off and dies in the copper.
Ive lost a tang too copper. very sad

The good news I have found wherever there is a tang I will have cleaner wrasses and all the tangs are happy. o yea

I have my hippo in QT and I bought a cleaner wrasse just for my QT even tho I have one in my 90 lol


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