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Hello there!!! I'm at the end of week 1 of cupramine treatment in my 32G and 10G HT's following an ich outbreak (powder blue started it). Unfortunately, I have lost my yellow tang, sailfin tang, and today my powder blue died . Still have two clowns,a royal granma, cardinal, aurora goby, flameback angel in my 10G plus 2 anthias and a hippo tang in the 32G HT. They are eating and doing well.
My powder,however, had stopped eating for a few days before it died but yellow and sailfin were eating and doing well and they still died. I think my mistake was to dose cupramine too quickly (I followed recommendation by LFS friend); I went with full dosis on days 1 and 2, and 1/2 dosis on day 3 and that, I believe, sent my tangs to downward spiral to their demise so lesson learned.
I also did not seed any sponges in my display tank prior to start the HT's so I'm experiencingsome ammonia levels which I need to correct. I performed 50% WH on both tanks to control ammonia (Copper level is still at therapeutic level since it was very high before). My question is, Is it too late to use BioSpira or Stability to try to control ammonia? What about Prime?
If I am reading this correctly you have SERIOUSLY OVERDOSED your tank! Full dosis on day and two plus half dose? So you basically dosed 1,5x the required level and instead of 0,5 concentration you were at 1,5...? If that is the case I wonder how any of your fish would still be alive.
Get a Seachem kit and test! Instructions state half dose (0,25 concentration) on day one, another half dose 48h later to bring up to 0,5 . I have typically had more success raising just 0,1 per day for 5 days.