Please Help digital thermometer fell into sump

[sage051995]

Need help!!!! About a month ago I found the digital thermometer fell into the sump of my 55 gallon tank. I am unsure how long it was in there. I took it out and since then have done 2 50% wc and several 10% wc. All water parameters are good. Corals are not so great hammerhead, frog spawn and mushrooms were in the tank with 2 fish. After getting water parameters back put cleaner crew in 3 turbo snails died next day crabs fine. Weeklater tried 3 smaller snails died next day. I’mthinking substrates are containing metals from the digital thermometer. Any suggestionswould be greatly appreciated. Also runningchemipure elite.

 

[sage051995]

Also just recently added a small zoanthid frag and a Star polyp frag which were good for 1 day and now closed up.

 

[cmcoker]

I'd run a metal removing media, such as a Boyd Poly-filter, Metasorb, or cuprisorb. And see how things do.

 

[Jeepguy242]

And carbon

 

[sage051995]

I was thinking the same thing. Do you believe that could be true about the metals getting into the substrate?

 

[tangtime]

I highly doubt it was the thermometer. How long has your tank been running?

 

[sage051995]

I highly doubt it was the thermometer. How long has your tank been running?

7 years never an issue

 

[tangtime]

Has to be something else. Any metal object that falls into water doesn’t immediately start leaching metal to catastrophic levels. It’s just not plausible or factual. Even if it was a few days still not even remotely an issue.

 

[sage051995]

Has to be something else. Any metal object that falls into water doesn’t immediately start leaching metal to catastrophic levels. It’s just not plausible or factual. Even if it was a few days still not even remotely an issue.

Any ideas running led lights
Salinity 1.025
PH 8.2
Ammonia between 0 and .025
Phosphate 0
Calcium 440
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
KH 10
Temp 78.6

 

[sage051995]

Any ideas running led lights
Salinity 1.025
PH 8.2
Ammonia between 0 and .025
Phosphate 0
Calcium 440
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
KH 10
Temp 78.6

Sorry nitrate 10 ppm

 

[sage051995]

I'd run a metal removing media, such as a Boyd Poly-filter, Metasorb, or cuprisorb. And see how things do.

Going to try the cuprisorbandnsee what happens

 

[cmcoker]

Going to try the cuprisorbandnsee what happens

Did you happen to open it and see what the batteries looked like?

 

[sage051995]

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Did you happen to open it and see what the batteries looked like?

Unfortunately no