copper safe level for oodinium

[Bob]

Hello;

Well for the first time in 8 years I have an oodinium outbreak in my dish
only 125 and it's all my fault. I broke my own ironclad quarantine rule and now
paying the price by not properly quaranteening a diamond goby. In anycase I
have a sailfain tang (8 inches long) in a 20 gallon quaranteen and a small
niger trigger and kole tang in another 20 gallon quaranteen. The big tank will
be kept fishless for 6 to 8 weeks to let those discusting parasites die out.
The plan is to go hypo-salinity (which I've used before for ich) to get
the parasites to drop off and then use copper to kill them off in the
quaranteen tanks when the new tropophonts (think that's what they are called)
hatch and start swimming. The american phamecuticals test kit seems to read
accaurately based on testing the initial dose I made.
I've got it copper around 2.0 right now. I know too much kills the fish and not
enough is not effective.
I'd appreciate any recommendations as to a good level for this chelated
copper or comments is chelated is that effective at all. There seems to be some
controversy about that. I've used cupramine in the past but there doesn't seem
to be any locally and I had to get started since with oodinium it's act fast or
curtains for the fish.

thanks;

Bob

[Shad~Roe]

"Bob" > wrote in message
...
>
> Hello;

Sorry but this newsgroup has been destroyed, totally wiped out by Roy
"Tristan" Hauer. Perhaps you can find a Reef Forum on the net.


>
> Well for the first time in 8 years I have an oodinium outbreak in my
> dish
> only 125 and it's all my fault. I broke my own ironclad quarantine rule
> and now
> paying the price by not properly quaranteening a diamond goby. In anycase
> I
> have a sailfain tang (8 inches long) in a 20 gallon quaranteen and a
> small
> niger trigger and kole tang in another 20 gallon quaranteen. The big tank
> will
> be kept fishless for 6 to 8 weeks to let those discusting parasites die
> out.
> The plan is to go hypo-salinity (which I've used before for ich) to
> get
> the parasites to drop off and then use copper to kill them off in the
> quaranteen tanks when the new tropophonts (think that's what they are
> called)
> hatch and start swimming. The american phamecuticals test kit seems to
> read
> accaurately based on testing the initial dose I made.
> I've got it copper around 2.0 right now. I know too much kills the fish
> and not
> enough is not effective.
> I'd appreciate any recommendations as to a good level for this
> chelated
> copper or comments is chelated is that effective at all. There seems to be
> some
> controversy about that. I've used cupramine in the past but there doesn't
> seem
> to be any locally and I had to get started since with oodinium it's act
> fast or
> curtains for the fish.
>
> thanks;
>
> Bob
>

[George Patterson]

Bob wrote:

> I'd appreciate any recommendations as to a good level for this chelated
> copper or comments is chelated is that effective at all.

You want to keep the level between .15 and .2 mg/liter for at least two weeks.
Emmens states that "it appears safe below .4 ppm" in marine tanks. Dempster
recommends .15 ppm for two weeks.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

[~Roy~]

YOu heard that right from the horses or make that jhackasses mouth
named CArol Gulley the bitch of a 1000 nyms..........who wsa invited
here by Wayne Sallee the ****tard!

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:45:25 -0500, "Shad~Roe" >
wrote:

<<>>
<<>>"Bob" > wrote in message
...
<<>>>
<<>>> Hello;
<<>>
<<>>Sorry but this newsgroup has been destroyed, totally wiped out by Roy
<<>>"Tristan" Hauer. Perhaps you can find a Reef Forum on the net.
<<>>
<<>>
<<>>>
<<>>> Well for the first time in 8 years I have an oodinium outbreak in my
<<>>> dish
<<>>> only 125 and it's all my fault. I broke my own ironclad quarantine rule
<<>>> and now
<<>>> paying the price by not properly quaranteening a diamond goby. In anycase
<<>>> I
<<>>> have a sailfain tang (8 inches long) in a 20 gallon quaranteen and a
<<>>> small
<<>>> niger trigger and kole tang in another 20 gallon quaranteen. The big tank
<<>>> will
<<>>> be kept fishless for 6 to 8 weeks to let those discusting parasites die
<<>>> out.
<<>>> The plan is to go hypo-salinity (which I've used before for ich) to
<<>>> get
<<>>> the parasites to drop off and then use copper to kill them off in the
<<>>> quaranteen tanks when the new tropophonts (think that's what they are
<<>>> called)
<<>>> hatch and start swimming. The american phamecuticals test kit seems to
<<>>> read
<<>>> accaurately based on testing the initial dose I made.
<<>>> I've got it copper around 2.0 right now. I know too much kills the fish
<<>>> and not
<<>>> enough is not effective.
<<>>> I'd appreciate any recommendations as to a good level for this
<<>>> chelated
<<>>> copper or comments is chelated is that effective at all. There seems to be
<<>>> some
<<>>> controversy about that. I've used cupramine in the past but there doesn't
<<>>> seem
<<>>> to be any locally and I had to get started since with oodinium it's act
<<>>> fast or
<<>>> curtains for the fish.
<<>>>
<<>>> thanks;
<<>>>
<<>>> Bob
<<>>>



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