Noob_Sam
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Hello,
So 4 months ago I had a bad marine velvet outbreak which I lost 70% of my fish. The remaining that survived I treated them witch copper for 30 days and left my DT fishless for 80 days. So now I am buying new fish every two weeks. I already bought a coral beauty, pair of clowns and some damsels. I QT them all for 3 weeks. They are in my DT now (its been 2 weeks) and non of them have any signs of ich or velvet or fungus. So what I have being doing is, I have a 30 gallon QT with copper at 2.0. I just put the fish in there for 2-3 weeks. Then if its good i put it in my DT. I then have my QT fishless for two weeks do a 5 gallon water change on the QT and then add a new fish to it and quarantine is for 2-3 weeks.. and the cycle repeats. Is it ok that I am not removing all the water for the QT? because my thought is that the copper kills the ich and velvet etc in the water so there is no reason for me to remove it and put brand new water in. Of course I do a water change when nutrient levels are high. I am getting a blue tang on Sunday so I want to make sure that my QT process is ok.
Thanks
So 4 months ago I had a bad marine velvet outbreak which I lost 70% of my fish. The remaining that survived I treated them witch copper for 30 days and left my DT fishless for 80 days. So now I am buying new fish every two weeks. I already bought a coral beauty, pair of clowns and some damsels. I QT them all for 3 weeks. They are in my DT now (its been 2 weeks) and non of them have any signs of ich or velvet or fungus. So what I have being doing is, I have a 30 gallon QT with copper at 2.0. I just put the fish in there for 2-3 weeks. Then if its good i put it in my DT. I then have my QT fishless for two weeks do a 5 gallon water change on the QT and then add a new fish to it and quarantine is for 2-3 weeks.. and the cycle repeats. Is it ok that I am not removing all the water for the QT? because my thought is that the copper kills the ich and velvet etc in the water so there is no reason for me to remove it and put brand new water in. Of course I do a water change when nutrient levels are high. I am getting a blue tang on Sunday so I want to make sure that my QT process is ok.
Thanks