Bryce Peterson
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First off, there needs to be a 911 forum, but I'll post here for now. My son just dumped an almost full jar of freeze dried mysis in my tank. Not sure what to do. Please help!
HELP!!!!!MAJOR CRISIS!
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Jimbo662
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Do you have anything you can use as a filter sock on your drain line? That'll take most of it out then plan to do some water changes because I suspect you'll see your phosphate go up.
- Turn off return.
- Leaving powerhead(s) on to keep shrimp stirred up, net out everything you can from display.
- Clean skimmer cup.
- Perform ~30%+ water change to system.
- Repeat daily as/if required.
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Thanks for the replies. Been too busy to reply. Any idea how the fish might be effected?
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Amonia might be a problem
Exactly what I was going to say too.
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Looks like you don't have filter socks. I would rig up something temporary with an old sock.
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Filters Socks are a must but I would also start doing water changes ASAP. The other thing I would do is go ASAP and get a bunch of snails, crabs, shrimp whatever that will eat the mysis that isn't moving of the rocks and sand.
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Do you have a brine shrimp fish net? That's what I keep handy just in case I feed too much. Just blow around with a turkey baster and strain out the excess food. As mentioned, watch your Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates and Phosphates. You may have to do a couple of WCs.
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Hows the tank doing now?First off, there needs to be a 911 forum, but I'll post here for now. My son just dumped an almost full jar of freeze dried mysis in my tank. Not sure what to do. Please help!
Don't freak out. It just looks bad because of the foaming. It's probably not a bad thing really in an empty tank. Might be goodreally.
Strain it out best you can and do some WC and the nutrients willl feed the tank. That's a bout it. You'll probably get a pod bloom from heck and maybe cyano but the uglies were on thier way any way. We should feed well and clean well in a new tank anyway. It doesn't kill coral and the only thing that makes algae grow is putting it in the tank. I'm not afraid of some high nutrients.
Actually WC right now won't really do much as you won't really be able to make a dent in the amount of stuff in there. So just keep stirring it up so it makes it to the filter sock. If you can keep stirring it a few days it'll get out of the dt and into the sump. Much easier to clean it it out there. Then do water changes to Lower the nutrients.
So it's no big deal. IMO.
Im sure your young un feels pretty bad about the foamy sumpy thing.
Strain it out best you can and do some WC and the nutrients willl feed the tank. That's a bout it. You'll probably get a pod bloom from heck and maybe cyano but the uglies were on thier way any way. We should feed well and clean well in a new tank anyway. It doesn't kill coral and the only thing that makes algae grow is putting it in the tank. I'm not afraid of some high nutrients.
Actually WC right now won't really do much as you won't really be able to make a dent in the amount of stuff in there. So just keep stirring it up so it makes it to the filter sock. If you can keep stirring it a few days it'll get out of the dt and into the sump. Much easier to clean it it out there. Then do water changes to Lower the nutrients.
So it's no big deal. IMO.
Im sure your young un feels pretty bad about the foamy sumpy thing.
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Bryce Peterson
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Getting there. I have 30 gallons of RO I'll mix tomorrow. The fish are in a 30 gsllon that is about 70/30 dirty to clean water. We netted a lot of the stuff out of the main display, but the water is still really cloudy.
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Bryce Peterson
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That's my worry. The fish were just about to go into a hospital tank for velvet / ich treatment. Hope this incident doesn't push them over the edge.
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Bryce Peterson
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The timing couldn't be much worse. I took my surviving clown out the other day after she got sick. I used most of my reserve water getting that tank set up. The copper is already too high to risk dumping my other two fish in. I'm down to 1 30 gallon spare tank and a heater that barely works for it. I had to use mostly dirty water to set it up. I'll start transferring some of the copper treated water into that tank until I can get them all in one safely. After that, it's fallow for 76 days. Should have time for the main to recover, though.
TbyZ
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Personally, I'd find someone else to feed the fish!
skim
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I would not worry too much, maybe add some Carbon to help with the Organic load along with everything else said. That photos are great for 2 reasons. 1 when people say " my skimmer is not foaming I think I need a new one", well try this and see if it is not working you need something to skim. 2 for when people say "my skimmer is too small, I don't think it's handling my bioload", well does it look like this then maybe.
Don't be worried mon everyting going to be irie.
Just tink about the nice sandy beach mon and that lite breeze carrying that sweet smell of Herb across the sands, all is irie. No 911.
Don't be worried mon everyting going to be irie.
Just tink about the nice sandy beach mon and that lite breeze carrying that sweet smell of Herb across the sands, all is irie. No 911.this had me rollin!Don't be worried mon everyting going to be irie.
