copper safe and plants

[gi4get]

does copper safe harm live plants?

 

[Alien Anna]

It won't do them a tremendous amount of good. Probably depends on the plant.

 

[gi4get]

eek...how 'bout java ferns, camboda (sp?), and ambulia?

 

[Alien Anna]

eek...how 'bout java ferns, camboda (sp?), and ambulia?

Java ferns could probably survive a nuclear war (even I can't kill them) but the other plants are somewhat more delicate. Why are you using this med?

 

[gi4get]

i have a mix of cardinals, gourmais, a guppy and an oto. the cardinals picked up what i thought was ich but it hasn't been responding to treatment. that leads me to think it's not ich but something else. i want to get rid of this stuff before it spreads to my gouramis. i've used copper safe in the past and it seems to do the trick.

 

[Alien Anna]

i have a mix of cardinals, gourmais, a guppy and an oto. the cardinals picked up what i thought was ich but it hasn't been responding to treatment. that leads me to think it's not ich but something else. i want to get rid of this stuff before it spreads to my gouramis. i've used copper safe in the past and it seems to do the trick.

I was hving a discussion about ich with Ken (? ) in another discussion and he mentioned his problems with intractable ich. Ich is pretty unmistakable - if you see salt grains of white scattered over various fish, it's ich. Ich can be resistant to meds, however, like a lot of things these days.

Ken recommended putting the temperature way up (slowly, of course) to 86F as at this temperature, the ich parasite cannot survive. Also, add aeration.

Personally, I've always found that ich medication works and doesn't harm my plants but its always good to know of alternatives. I've only use Protazin and King British WS3.