Live rock and coppersafe

[Proud2bd]

I dosed my 55gal once with copper before I knew better. Since I only used it once can it be brought back to life?

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[that fish guy]

i have used coppersafe more than once in my tank within a years time.. it did absolutely nothing to my rocks. It has been proving that coppersafe does not kill bacteria on live rock.

 

[Proud2bd]

Oh thank you. I thought I was going to have to start the tank over. Should I add live Pods?


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[that fish guy]

I would because copper does kill them... you just have to be careful when adding coral.

 

[Awibrandy]

i have used coppersafe more than once in my tank within a years time.. it did absolutely nothing to my rocks. It has been proving that coppersafe does not kill bacteria on live rock.

I guess my tank was the odd ball here!

I used CopperSafe once in my fowlr, and it totally killed everything on my lr as well as a couple of fish.
No I did NOT over dose the tank!!! I used the recommended dosage.;(

YES, you can bring it back! My tank is now holding anemonies as well as some soft corals along with star fish, snails & a few hermits after about 1.5 years since the dosing of CS.

 

[bizarrecorals]

if this is a fish only tank, a few water changes will bring the rock back to its full potential, if is for a reef tank, I'd probably running under f/w for awhile before using it, copper dosn't come out easily, a lot of the test kit dosn't even show .1 on their scale.

 

[funkmaster]

iv been down the same road as u .....the bacteria on the rocks will remain but anything living in your rocks are dead ...what i did was removed all my copper from my tank added some new live rock and now im back to normal ......

 

[that fish guy]

I didn't even add new rock, I just added some stress zyme in there to help boost up the bacteria load.

 

[funkmaster]

i dont think that is needed if u want u can add some nitromax that stuff works mint

 

[that fish guy]

I have never heard of nitromax.

 

[funkmaster]

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this is the stuff