Copper in my tank?!?!?

[JPR1212]

Hey guys,

So I’ve been getting ICP test done recently and for some reason I keep getting copper in my tank. I don’t have any metal fittings. The only possible thing I might have is magnets but as of yesterday I stripped 95% of the amount other than my clip And my glass scraper. I’m just trying to see if you guys might have any ideas to why there’s copper in my tank and where it may be coming from. RODI water is clean on the ICP test. Somehow something in my tank is leaching copper. if you guys have anything to get rid of copper in the water, let me know I’ve been using seaxhem cuprisorb but it doesn’t do a good enough job because the copper levels keep going up after it gets depleted. Please let me know what you guys think. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

What levels are you seeing and from what company?

 

[JPR1212]

These are the levels I’m seeing and the company it’s being done by is Oceamo

 

[JPR1212]

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Ok, that is concerning high.

Did the rock or anything else in the tank get exposed to medication levels of copper in the past?

Cuprisorb, metasorb, and pilyfilter are all able to bind copper, but it is also binding to surfaces and organics in the tank and may take a while to strip.

 

[JPR1212]

Ok, that is concerning high.

Did the rock or anything else in the tank get exposed to medication levels of copper in the past?

Cuprisorb, metasorb, and pilyfilter are all able to bind copper, but it is also binding to surfaces and organics in the tank and may take a while to strip.

I bought everything from the LFS and I never medicated any fish with rocks. All my qts have been pvc and other trashable equipment. So unless it was somehow used in the lfs then no. I have used the Cuprisorb and got it down to 30 now. I just don’t understand where it’s coming from. Are there any other ways to get it out of the system?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I bought everything from the LFS and I never medicated any fish with rocks. All my qts have been pvc and other trashable equipment. So unless it was somehow used in the lfs then no. I have used the Cuprisorb and got it down to 30 now. I just don’t understand where it’s coming from. Are there any other ways to get it out of the system?

It would not surprise me if the rock got exposed, maybe even by someone they got it from.

 

[JPR1212]

Wow ok, you think pulling the rock and changing it out would help?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Wow ok, you think pulling the rock and changing it out would help?

One way to test without doing that is to remove one rock, since for a few seconds on new salt water, then let it soak for a few days in new salt water, and test it.

Keeping on using a binder is also a reasonable approach.

 

[JayM]

Every pump and power head you’ve got has copper in it, though I’m not sure they’d raise your copper level that high and still be functioning.

 

[JPR1212]

One way to test without doing that is to remove one rock, since for a few seconds on new salt water, then let it soak for a few days in new salt water, and test it.

Keeping on using a binder is also a reasonable approach.

Will do thanks for your advice