Medication Advice

[Gilli]

Hello peeps! Being fairly new to the hobby Ive read up loads and have been fine with medics so far. But ive now added 3 amano shrimp and a bristlenose plec to my gang and im not sure if they would be ok if I needed to add medicine to the tank for any reason. If im right there will be some medicines I cant use. Can someone please advise ?

 

[Davo86]

any treatment containing copper is poisonous to shrimp, As for the bristlenose he should be ok (you can just half the dose if your not comfortable adding the whole dose) unless you often treat with salt which he will not like.

 

[Gilli]

Thank you for your help - I assume that copper would be listed somewhere on the medicine bottle if it contains it?

 

[OldMan47]

Any medication containing copper will either say it contains copper or will say not to use it with invertebrates. Either way, it will warn you.