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[EASTERN INDIGO]

The bleach is overkill. The fresh water alone would have killed any saltwater pests. That much bleach in an enclosed area could be dangerous as the fumes are toxic. I hope the area is well ventilated. Also, I doubt they sterilize the seawater. Who knows what that will bring with it.

What's done is done, and it's sealed so there won't be any fumes. I will be dissipated by then, but I'll drain it anyway and refill it with fresh for a week, then put it out in the florida summer sun for a few days. ThatHadAwtaDoIt. Thanks. By the way, I once read an article about guys growing I think it was rotifers. They used bleach to sterilize the water, then used some other crystaline substance - can't remember which - to remove it, and that worked.

 

[Earl Coleman]

Will activated carbon take out what you might be worried about? Run a canister on it for a few days.

 

[Earl Coleman]

Will activated carbon take out what you might be worried about? Run a canister on it for a few days.

 

[flying4fish]

All you had to do is treat the saltwater with bleach, aerate for a day, and then remove the bleach with sodium thiosulfate. I used to do that all the time when I was managing a marine fish hatchery.

 

[PhreeByrd]

Let's be logical about this. The water from your display that was sucked back into your new water tank did not come from some alternate universe. It's the same water that's in your display tank. Using that water will not add anything to the display that isn't already in the display tank.

Stop worrying. Go ahead and use it (on the tank it was "contaminated" by). When the new water vat is empty, wash it out and sterilize it.

 

[drblank1]

I just did a water change on a 120 fish only. The tank has 8 foxfaces, one clown trigger and one angel. They have all lived together peacefully for two or three months. NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH COPPER OR CP. I took my eye off the tank for one minute or less and the water level rose to the point where the feed end of the hose (which I NEVER allow to touch the tank water) accidentally became submerged. When I turned the pump off it syphoned water back into my 325 ALMOST FULL, storage vat. So now my concern is this: Since those fish were never treated with ich/velvet preventatives, have I contaminated my vat? I already know the answer: Possible, and it's now Russian Roulette. Now I plan to throw 225 gallons of water away, refill with fresh and bleach to sterilize. Then buy more water. Anybody disagree? Am I too paranoid? I have two other long term large tanks with no known disease ever. Thanks in advance.

The other 2 systems you mention: are they currently in operation? If not, I would use the water and then clean and sanitize the vat. If the other 2 systems are in operation the next question is: did you use a quarantined process before adding to those tanks and not the 120 FO? If yes, I would not use the water on those 2 tanks. But if you did not use a qt. process with the other 2 systems, I would use the water and then clean and sanitize the vat for good measure. Just my 2 cents.

 

[threebuoys]

I guess its to late now. Seems to me you had no more risk for ich to develop in your reservoir than for it to develop in your display tank. If you haven't had ich for 3 months in the DT, who is to say it isn't hidden on one or more of the fish and that it won't appear in the future if a fish is stressed or its immunity is weakened. In the reservoir you have no fish to host ich. After 14 days +/- at 80 degrees the ich will all die anyways.

 

[2Wheelsonly]

I just did a water change on a 120 fish only. The tank has 8 foxfaces, one clown trigger and one angel. They have all lived together peacefully for two or three months. NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH COPPER OR CP. I took my eye off the tank for one minute or less and the water level rose to the point where the feed end of the hose (which I NEVER allow to touch the tank water) accidentally became submerged. When I turned the pump off it syphoned water back into my 325 ALMOST FULL, storage vat. So now my concern is this: Since those fish were never treated with ich/velvet preventatives, have I contaminated my vat? I already know the answer: Possible, and it's now Russian Roulette. Now I plan to throw 225 gallons of water away, refill with fresh and bleach to sterilize. Then buy more water. Anybody disagree? Am I too paranoid? I have two other long term large tanks with no known disease ever. Thanks in advance.

Waaaaaaaaaaay over reacting but that’s the hobby I guess. I’ve seen worse, I know a guy that did a 90% water change (ended up killing his corals) because the tip of his fingers touched the water without gloves. Some nudnik on the internet told him hands in the tank kills corals, dude is a grade A idiot. Unfortunately he is still holding strong in the hobby constantly doing odd things.