Dog Food ] Copper Sulphate is essential to hemoglobin function, as well as bone growth and maintenance.

Trade name: Blue vitriol Chemical formula: CuSO45H2O See also: Chemical Table.

Similar to aluminum sulphate, this chemical provides a coagulating and flocculent function in water. Used in ponds. This amount of copper would stain swimming pools.

A compound of copper and sulphur, blue in colour. The chemical formula for copper sulphate is CuSO4.

An effective treatment for a range of diseases, but unwise to use in a home-made treatment. Only use copper sulphate when properly formulated in a proprietary fish disease cure. Its effectiveness can be reduced by hard water. Over-dosing with copper causes goldfish and carp especially, to become thickly and fatally coated with an over-production of body mucus. Death follows quickly.