Quarantining Your Fish - Reefkeeping Magazine
Careful thought must be put into the tank decorations. Calcareous materials should be avoided as calcium carbonate absorbs copper. This causes two problems if treatment with copper is necessary:
1.It will be difficult to maintain the correct level of copper as the absorption by the calcium carbonate will take the copper out of solution.
2.A drop in pH can cause the copper to be released back into solution potentially causing lethal doses of copper.
那檢疫缸是不是不能放珊瑚骨了
A drop in pH??? pH下降嗎??
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The tank should be kept bare bottom (no sand or gravel) as calcium based substrate can pull copper medication out of solution.
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Rocks, gravel and sand should be left out of the quarantine aquarium that you will use to quarantine new aquarium fish. Calcareous minerals can absorb copper salts and then release them later on, making it difficult to precisely dose copper-based medications. Because marine fish especially are sensitive to overdosing, this is one complication you don’t want to deal with when you quarantine new fish.
