Think I Just Poisoned All My Inverts

[ZoddyZod]

in my haste to treat my tank containing some infected ANGELS I neglected to think about possible issues with snails and shrimps I have.

I've treated the tank with eSHA Hexamita which contains copper sulphite (just read the ingredients)

Think I will be waking up to a handful of assasin snail, MTS and amano shrimp corpses.

stupid mistake.

 

[ZoddyZod]

hmmmm....but maybe not?

http/www.eshalabs.eu/pages_eu/faqs_engels.html

I thought inverts simply would not tolerate copper?

 

[Jinty McGinty]

I was thinking omg no!!! But then reading the link you may have been lucky.........

 

[Blubble37]

same

 

[ZoddyZod]

Well let's hope. Would like someone to be able to explain why copper sulphite is not a problem?

 

[Blubble37]

well if they dont like copper then copper sulphite may be different... like chlorine - poisionous untill it gets in with sodium and then you have salt.


Just a thought though

 

[ZoddyZod]

well if they dont like copper then copper sulphite may be different... like chlorine - poisionous untill it gets in with sodium and then you have salt.


Just a thought though

yeah, you might be right......could be the compound is not a toxix one to inverts.

No could not see any signs of deaths this morning. Several assassins still roaming around and none of the amano have died.

 

[Blubble37]

glad nothing bad happened

 

[BigbruiserAl]

If all your snails die there is a good chance of a tank wipe, the amount of ammonia a single dead snails gives if is amazing

 

[Blubble37]

If all your snails die there is a good chance of a tank wipe, the amount of ammonia a single dead snails gives if is amazing

depends on what snail, pomacea give off a lot of ammonia but other snails give off hardly any.