Re: Copper In My Tank

[brick-brothers]

Re: Copper In My Tank

Hey so I finally caught this dam sixline wrasse.:Starwars: ( btw pmoney its yours now ) I also caught some of my fish that looked like they had ick on them. So I started transporting the fish to the qt tank and me like a dummy put the net in the qt tank that has copper and dip it back in my main tank. Should I start worrying or should I just slap my self for messing with my tank at 3am?:banghead: I did 40% water change and i have my dual reactor running on the tank.

 

[INNEED]

ooo mengggg

 

[SevTT]

It depends on the size of the tank, but unless your net was huge or your tank was tiny, you should only have added a minute amount of copper to your tank. I wouldn't worry about it, but if you're a bit paranoid you could run one of those sponges that absorb copper and other free metals.

 

[brick-brothers]

I have a 120g with a 40g breeder fuge.

 

[anthony27]

bro, buy polly pads fast if they change color then you have copper in the tank. Porbly small traces of it, keep a eye out for the coral in the tank and also run carbon as well and check the coral to see if there is any die off

 

[brick-brothers]

ok cool, I'm going to pick up the pads today. I always have carbon running on my tank

 

[jrobbins]

i wouldn't worry about it. assuming you were shooting for .15ppm copper in your hospital tank, and assuming you got maybe 1/10th of a gallon of copper treated water into your tank, which is probably way more than you did, you have nothing to worry about. think of it like this.

.15ppm copper in 1/10th of a gallon of water would be .015 ppm copper in one gallon of water.
which would be .0015 ppm in 10 gallons of water, and .00015 ppm in 100 gallons of water.
and would equal about .00007ppm in your approx 150 gallons of water.

thats a really really small amount. you cant even test for concentrations that low...

 

[brick-brothers]

Wipping my forehead. lol I knew I should've just took my butt to bed. lol

i wouldn't worry about it. assuming you were shooting for .15ppm copper in your hospital tank, and assuming you got maybe 1/10th of a gallon of copper treated water into your tank, which is probably way more than you did, you have nothing to worry about. think of it like this.

.15ppm copper in 1/10th of a gallon of water would be .015 ppm copper in one gallon of water.
which would be .0015 ppm in 10 gallons of water, and .00015 ppm in 100 gallons of water.
and would equal about .00007ppm in your approx 150 gallons of water.

thats a really really small amount. you cant even test for concentrations that low...

 

[aznt1217]

You're fine. You should see my thread. lol

 

[Tangs Rule]

It still can't hurt to buy a poly pad and remove the small trace of copper that is in the tank.

 

[brick-brothers]

yea I'm going to buy some to be on the safe side.