Chipped metal razor blade while cleaning

[Reefer508]

When cleaning coralline build up around overflow weir with a metal razor blade, I guess I chipped off a corner of the blade. I noticed it when I was done, and chip is somewhere in tank or overflow. It is a small piece, maybe the size of 2 grains of rice into a 120 gallon.
Should I be concerned or will running carbon or even CupriSorb be enough to remove the rusting metal?
Right now, only have softies and RBTA in tank but I do want to move some LPS into this tank.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

If you can find and remove it that would be best. Try getting strong magnet and run it over all the areas you used the scraper at to see if you can find it that way. If the magnet is not successful then running carbon won't do anything for iron oxide. Curisorb will but it may also remove other trace elements that you do want in the tank. If you cannot find it with the magnet and decide against Cuprisorb and if it's that small of a piece it likely won't impact anything that much.

 

[takitaj]

I wouldn't leave it in there, especially if you have sand sifting fish like gobies, etc., or someday stirring the sand by hand. Use the in-tank part of your algae cleaner magnet and wave it over the sand bed. Should pick it up.

 

[Reefer508]

DOH, lol never thought of using a magnet. Thanks

 

[Reefer508]

Magnet worked like a charm, found chip in less than 5 mins.
Thanks for the great idea

 

[PatW]

Glad it worked. I don’t think the iron oxide would be much of a problem. But steel is usually an alloy and I would worry about some of the other metals in it. But you got it so no big deal.

 

[vetteguy53081]

When cleaning coralline build up around overflow weir with a metal razor blade, I guess I chipped off a corner of the blade. I noticed it when I was done, and chip is somewhere in tank or overflow. It is a small piece, maybe the size of 2 grains of rice into a 120 gallon.
Should I be concerned or will running carbon or even CupriSorb be enough to remove the rusting metal?
Right now, only have softies and RBTA in tank but I do want to move some LPS into this tank.

I have done this more than once and walked away. At 120 gallon volume, a minute piece of stainless steel is not going to impact your tank or send your parameters haywire.
Test the blade to see if it is magnetic which I doubt. Should it be, you can use a $3 magnet pickup tool and fish the area and retrieve it