10g Nano Emergency

chunkysoup56 · Apr 30, 2019

Woke up this morning to find my BTA sucked into the powerhead of my 10g Nano. Looks like it’s almost completely destroyed and the water in the tank is a milky white color.....

I know a large water change is imminent. Is there anything else that I can do???? It’ll be another 24 hours before I can have water ready for the change. I have 2 small clowns, another BTA and a large fire shrimp currently in the tank.

Side note: my other BTA got sucked into the powerhead yesterday too but we were able to catch it in time. Weird how they both got caught in their in the same day?!?!

JumboShrimp · Apr 30, 2019

If you’re having to wait 24 hrs to make RO water (?), you can run down and buy distilled water in a pinch.

Frtdrmrose7 · Apr 30, 2019

Most grocery stores have water machines where 5G is around $1.50 and I’ve used it in the past. My local glacier machine was around 3 tds

Tuan’s Reef · Apr 30, 2019

10g is a bit too small for an BTA . You’ll likely run into this problem again unless you have a powerhead guard

dansreef · Apr 30, 2019

+1 for a powerhead guard.

I would also head right away to a LFS and pick up some water rather than waiting. I would remove all that you can of the BTA that got creamed.... and do a couple of sizable water changes. With such a small tank... things can get funky pretty quick. I would go buy 20 plus gallons of premixed salt water from a LFS and start by doing 2.5 gal changes... daily for a few days.

I know... I am sure this is overkill.... but this should help stave off a crash and kill the rest of the tanks inhabitants. I also wouldn't wait.....