ATI IOD overdose

[solor]

Hello,

I added 100 ml of ATI instead of the recommended 0.92 ml to my 350 gallon water volume system...

It has been a couple of days and I see 2 sps colonies (pink monti and pink and green sps on far left center) with some bleaching in the body of the coral. So far that is the only negative I have seen.

I am running carbon, gfo, protein skimmer, CaRx, biopellets (half dose) and the 125gl sump half full of Chaeto.

The system is a 180 and a 120 with a shared 125 sump.

Do I need to freak out?

 

[GoVols]

@Rakie

Any thoughts?

 

[CNDReef]

Was it the essentials?

 

[CNDReef]

Essentials 1 is carbonate and bicarbonate , it would raise your alk through the roof

 

[CNDReef]

Was it iodine?

 

[Rakie]

@Rakie

Any thoughts?

I'm not sure what "IOD" is, so hard to say. ATI Essentials shouldn't do that in anyway, it's just Alk/Cal/Mag and Trace (basically a water change in a bottle).

 

[solor]

Was it iodine?

It was the ATI supplements 100 ml bottle of Iod it is like $16.95 or so a bottle. I will test alk but I monitor pH and would expect that to raise with it.

Thanks

 

[solor]

It was the ATI supplements 100 ml bottle of Iod it is like $16.95 or so a bottle. I will test alk but I monitor pH and would expect that to raise with it.

Thanks

Says 1ml/100 l raise iodine by 100 ug/l. I have about 1325 l. So my guess is I raised my iodine by 700ish ug/l?

 

[CNDReef]

This is what I found on it

 

[CNDReef]

I’d probably start with doing a pretty decent sized water change

 

[solor]

Essentials 1 is carbonate and bicarbonate , it would raise your alk through the roof

Alk is 8.0

 

[CNDReef]

@Randy Holmes-Farley can definitely give you the right way to proceed but I’d try to dilute the overdose as much as possible with water changes.

 

[solor]

I appreciate the responses. I look forward to Randy’s as well.

I usually keep 40 gallons of saltwater and 40 gallons of rodi on hand. I haven’t done a water change in six months... been sending tests to ATI.

I am going to start making some more water just in case that is the consensus.. might just do 2 120 gallons changes to refresh the water supply.

 

[Rakie]

You still haven't said what "IOD" is. I can only guess it's Iodine, since you haven't told us what it is... maybe it's rat poison, who knows?

Acronyms don't mean anything to people who've never heard it before. I understand it's from ATI. I understand it's a "Supplement"... but which supplement is it? "IOD" doesn't mean anything to me.

 

[Flippers4pups]

It's iodine. I would do some large water changes.

 

[Rakie]

It's iodine.

Thank you. Several searches left me with zero information.

Randy typically says iodine becomes inert quite quickly I believe -- And that what isn't used up, and very quickly removed by filtration (skimming).

100ml is a lot, compared to 0.9 ml, but a LOT of carbon and aggressive watery skimming will remove it relatively quickly.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Thank you. Several searches left me with zero information.

Randy typically says iodine becomes inert quite quickly I believe -- And that what isn't used up, and very quickly removed by filtration (skimming).

That's with a typical dose. OP is way over that. Large water changes.

 

[Rakie]

That's with a typical dose. OP is way over that. Large water changes.

Yep, I edited to reflect that. I always advocate lots of carbon and aggressive wet skimming. Skimmers really can pull out a lot of stuff quickly. A series of large WC along with all the rest definitely help.

But as it's a chemical reaction within water, I'm unsure if the same rules apply or not -- Will it stick around longer due to dose, or does the mechanisms that utilize/remove iodine still make relatively short work of it?

My knowledge of chemistry isn't that in depth to answer that.

 

[Flippers4pups]

I'm no where near at Randy's level of expertise, nor claim to be. It would be the exposure to the iodine at extreme levels for the corals that would warrant possible larger water change.

 

[Rakie]

I'm no where near at Randy's level of expertise, nor claim to be. It would be the exposure to the iodine at extreme levels for the corals that would warrant possible larger water change.

When we start wondering about chemical reactions you know were on the fringe side of the hobby lol