Need some advice/help...

[Manners]

My wife finally came out and told me she has been cheating on me, and needless to say I'm leaving her. As she left the house she poured a few big puffs of baby powder into my tank. All I have in there is eggcrate, sand, and baserock with maybe an inch of water.


Does anyone have any suggestions on how to remedy this? I really want to get rid of the tank in general and downgrade to a 40B or something cheaper. I am the bread winner and she won't be getting alimony (I'm 23, she's 22, married four years) so I'm not concerned about affording it, just taking precautions since she was the finance person.


I posted it on Craigslist locally with no interest, and I'm pretty sure no local LFS would be willing to credit me or trade me. Any ideas?

 

[cparka23]

You should post the ingredients from the label to get a sure answer, but baby powder is often mostly talc, which is a magnesium silicate. No worries about the magnesium, but the silicate salt could be a little problematic as silicates can bring on nuisance algae. You should still be able to sell/trade the tank if you just clean it out. I wouldn't keep the sand, though.

Sorry to hear about your troubles, friend. Chin up and stay positive, and things will get better in time.

 

[REEFKEEPER10]

Dude I'm sorry to here that !!!!!!
Did you try putting it on eBay.
I don't know if the baby powder will hurt anything but a waterchange want hurt.
Again sorry man.

 

[Manners]

Well there isn't any water in the tank, so I'm not sure where to start with cleaning the sand. You'd think you could rinse it somehow...

 

[REEFKEEPER10]

Well there isn't any water in the tank, so I'm not sure where to start with cleaning the sand. You'd think you could rinse it somehow...

Well if you can get the tank outside you could drop a hose in it and let it overflow for a while just stir it a lot. The power is a lot lighter than the sand.