Salifert Copper (Cu) Profi Test Kit - 50 tests

Measure even the most weakly chelated copper in your saltwater aquarium with this handy test.

Key Benefits & Features:

Essential when medicating with copper-based treatments. Helps to maintain a healthy aquarium or pond for fish by ensuring that copper (a common treatment for many parisitic infections) levels are within the healthy range.

The Salifert test kit offers a very sensitive and accurate test for measuring dissolved or weakly chelated copper with a pH of 7.5–9. Lasts for several copper cures or provides sufficient for up to 50 tests on tap or aquarium water as a routine check. Ca be used for marine, fresh and garden pond water Strongly chelated copper will only be partly or not at all detected.

Importance of Testing for Copper:

• Copper is often used to treat many parasitic infections on fresh and saltwater fish. To be effective, the copper concentration in the aquarium must be maintained at the therapeutic level for several weeks. Frequent testing is required to monitor the copper level in the aquarium. Some fish species are very sensitive to copper treatments. Therefore, follow the copper treatment manufacturer’s directions carefully.
• Copper should not be used or evident in aquariums with invertebrates, including snails, shrimp, crayfish and corals, as well as in freshwater aquariums or ponds with plants.
• Tap water may contain copper leached from pipes and, ultimately, it can accumulate in the aquarium. Copper is often used as a treatment for parasite infested fish and it is essential that the correct concentration is used as too high levels can be toxic to marine fish and invertebrates.
• Tap water can also be naturally high in copper and it is therefore advisable to test for this on a regular basis.

WARNINGS:

Warning! KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN. Not for consumption.

Directions for Use:

Add 2ml of water in the test vial. Add 5 drops of the Cu reagent and swirl gently for 5 seconds. Allow it to stand for 10 minutes. Some copper medications might use strongly bound copper and would require a waiting time of 20 minutes. In case of doubt compare the value after 10 and 20 minutes of waiting. The highest value should be noted. To obtain the copper concentration hold the test vial in front of you. Place the white part of the colour chart firmly against the side of the test vial and look from the opposite side. A blue tinge lighter than the 0.1ppm value corresponds to approximately 0.05ppm.

A colour in between two colour bars indicates a copper value in between those two values.