After White Spot Treatment

[darkfool58]

Hi Guys
 
I have just finished a white spot treatment with waterlife protozin. As part of it i had to remove my carbon. My carbon is in the Boyu Carbon Cartridges.
 
questions to help me know what to do next.
 
Obviously i open up the cartridges and throw out the carbon. but should i clean the cartridges with anything before reuse?
 
Should i leave it 48 hours to allow the meds to have finished in the tank before reintroducing the carbon and performing the water change?
 
Should i do a 50% water change before reintroducing the carbon cartridges with new carbon in?
 
Should I replace the filter floss i replaced as i was medicating the tank?
 
thanks
 
Russ
 
suggestion to admin is it worth having a forum area for non emergency medications enquiries like these

 

[Lunar Jetman]

I'm not sure what filter you have but personally I wouldn't bother putting carbon back in. I stopped using it a while ago and just have sponges and ceramic rings in my filter.

If you've finished meds just carry out some water changes.

 

[MBOU]

suggestion to admin is it worth having a forum area for non emergency medications enquiries like these

 This would be very difficult as with members all over the world, different medications are available and more to the point, different medications are legal! UK laws are far stricter than those of Europe and definitely more so than the US.
 
Its fine to post about any medication stuff in the Emergency section, just might be worth us looking at the name of the section, so good point that you made
 
I would leave it a day after last dose before doing a good sized water change. Don't put carbon back in yet as you may need to repeat the course. Im not sure I understood what you said but did you take your carbon out *before* you medicated the tank? Because if not, you will likely find the medication didn't work at all or very well as the carbon strips out the medication as fast as you put it in there.

 

[DrRob]

As LJ says, i tend not to run carbon unless I have a need to, or lots of space in my filter. Your need for biological capacity tends to outweigh the benefit of carbon.
 
If the filter allows I replace with standard filter material. Again, as LJ says, knowing the make of filter would help.
 
Out of curiosity, where are you with the whitespot? It's a pain of a condition and can recur if not cleared properly and treated at the right times. Needs to be hit in it's free swimming stages.
 
As for the sections, we tend to leave questions like that in general discussion unless there are a lot of them. Too many subforums makes the place near impossible to find anything in, but it may make a good subsection of the emergencies section.

 

[darkfool58]

ty for all your comments, reading up on it a bit carbons only good for chemicals and polutants so as long as i use a water conditioner am i right in thinking that carbons a waste of time.
 
If so i think ceramic rings are for me now moving forward. I am using the shelf on the boyg86 (http/www.boyuaquarium.com/en_ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=1639) to place my media on so the pump runs it up and over.
 
how would you know if the white spots in the free swimming stages as i noticed the infected fish spots have reduced to cleared.
 
mbou yes i read the instructions on the bottom and took out the carbon as instructed.

 

[the_lock_man]

If you've followed the directions on the Protozin bottle, you'll have done the day 6 dose. I'm assuming that the day 6 was a couple of days ago. I would leave it a couple more days, then put a carbon cartridge back in (assuming you've seen no more whitespot infestations in that time). Leave it for 2 weeks. Then replace the carbon with ceramics.
 
Carbon removes pollutants like heavy metals. Protozin is a copper-based treatment, ie it's a heavy-metal pollutant. Therefore the carbon will get rid of the old Protozin, and stop it from weakening your fish.
 
You may want to buy a 2nd new carbon cartridge, and keep it in storage until you need to remove more medications.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

+1 lock_man.