Accidentally added the wrong Seachem Flourish Product!

[See Gee Sea]

Hello all - In an effort to raise the phosphates in my tank I read yesterday about adding Seachem Flourish. Little did I know, Flourish is a line of product and NOT the particular Flourish I had for my freshwater tank that was for planted tanks. All my soft corals (which as all I have) closed up. I put them into a 5 Gal spare tank I had with freshly mixed saltwater. My question is - What can I use to purge it from my display tank?

 

[AcroNem]

What product did you add? I'd start with quality activated carbon and a big water change.

 

[BrandonS]

Algae is only thing I can think of. For planted tanks it says carbon doesn't effect it. Maybe gfo would pull it out. Would worry more about what trace elements you added over the phosphate though. I don't have a bottle anymore. What are the ingredients in the one you have? Do you have a refugium, algae scrubber? Large water changes might be the easiest.

 

[AcroNem]

Was it still a phosphate product or something else? Brandon is right gfo will pull that, but I'm concerned what else is in there.

 

[BrandonS]

Just looked at your link. If that is it. I would be worried about the iron, copper, and chlorine in it's ingredients list. Algae scrubber would pull all those out. But not sure what else other than water changes for copper. Could try purigen. I think that one pulls metals out.

 

[AcroNem]

If that link is the product, more than one percent is supposedly chlorine. So maybe some Prime would help as well while you're getting water ready to change out.

 

[AcroNem]

Just looked at your link. If that is it. I would be worried about the iron, copper, and chlorine in it's ingredients list. Algae scrubber would pull all those out. But not sure what else other than water changes for copper. Could try purigen. I think that one pulls metals out.

It has very little copper in it, but depending on what kind it is carbon will pull it out. Cuprisorb also pulls metals/copper.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Edit: I use the phosphorus flourish.

@See Gee Sea, how much (ml) did you add to water volume?

 

[AcroNem]

the product they linked mentions it doesn't contain significant phosphate

 

[See Gee Sea]

Did I overdose then? My GSP won't even come out now. I put in 50ml for a 91 gallon system. I was going to run to the LFS to get a polypad and do a 20% water change.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Did I overdose then? My GSP won't even come out now. I put in 50ml for a 91 gallon system. I was going to run to the LFS to get a polypad and do a 20% water change.

I'd do the water change. You should be okay.

 

[kevin_e]

Doesn't seem like anything that isn't in our salt mix. Now concentrations? You'll have to look at the image below.

Amounts per 1 g

Total Nitrogen (N)
0.07%
Available Phosphate (P2O5)
0.01%
Soluble Potash (K2O)
0.37%
Calcium (Ca)
0.14%
Magnesium (Mg)
0.11%
Sulfur (S)
0.2773%
Boron (B)
0.009%
Chlorine (Cl)
1.15%
Cobalt (Co)
0.0004%
Copper (Cu)
0.0001%
Iron (Fe)
0.32%
Manganese (Mn)
0.0118%
Molybdenum (Mo)
0.0009%
Sodium (Na)
0.13%
Zinc (Zn)
0.0007%

Image sourced from a Hawaii graduate course.

 

[BrandonS]

Doesn't seem like anything that isn't in our salt mix. Now concentrations? You'll have to look at the image below.

Amounts per 1 g

Total Nitrogen (N)
0.07%
Available Phosphate (P2O5)
0.01%
Soluble Potash (K2O)
0.37%
Calcium (Ca)
0.14%
Magnesium (Mg)
0.11%
Sulfur (S)
0.2773%
Boron (B)
0.009%
Chlorine (Cl)
1.15%
Cobalt (Co)
0.0004%
Copper (Cu)
0.0001%
Iron (Fe)
0.32%
Manganese (Mn)
0.0118%
Molybdenum (Mo)
0.0009%
Sodium (Na)
0.13%
Zinc (Zn)
0.0007%

Image sourced from a Hawaii graduate course.

Think it would be the chlorine in the product then?

 

[ca1ore]

Hmmmn .... I used to use FW flourish in my reef tank as a supplement to grow chaeto .... never had any problems, but I did dose judiciously (not 50 ml at a time). I’ve since switched to ferrion since it was the iron I was after. Always a good idea to keep a poly filter on hand for just these kinds of situations.

 

[kevin_e]

Think it would be the chlorine in the product then?

I wonder if it is chlorine or chloride. If you get an ICP test it says "chlorine". See my last ICP test. That's the chloride portion of of sodium chloride - salt.

 

[See Gee Sea]

Thanks everybody. I did a 25% water change yesterday. My toadstool and neon pineapple tree look good but the heteroxenia, blue cespitularia, purple anthelia and even the GSP look like they're p-d off at me. I saw the xenia raising only one finger at me . What's strange is all the inverts and fish are unfazed. I also did this to try and raise the nutrients but when I was changing the water and disturbed the sand bed there was a lot of detritus in it so I stopped skimming, thinking my bioload is so low that I'm just over skimming. Thanks again! Should have posted myself about asking about dosing Flourish before I dosed.