Quarantine chaos

[Ruzoko]

Long story short, I dropped the ball on my new 20 gallon quarantine and waited my usual 1 week for a water change vs every few days, now I have nitrite/nitrates up. nitrite was at .50 ppm and nitrate spiked at 40-80ppm. Noticed due to angry finger leather, and thankfully only 2 turbo snails in there. Wondering if they will be able to survive until tomorrow for a 100% change into a new quarantine with water taken from main DT or acclimate them in bags tonight to DT water and hold them there until I can do the change tomorrow.

 

[fishguy242]

hi, jmo but i think will be fine until tomorrow,if ammonia is high also,i would be worried about snails,if you can swing it,
take 3 1/2 gal from DT ,put coral and snails in bucket ,throw towel over to slow temp cooling,until tomorrow.
no need to acclimate if salinity is same. best wishes.

 

[Ruzoko]

hi, jmo but i think will be fine until tomorrow,if ammonia is high also,i would be worried about snails,if you can swing it,
take 3 1/2 gal from DT ,put coral and snails in bucket ,throw towel over to slow temp cooling,until tomorrow.
no need to acclimate if salinity is same. best wishes.

Thankfully ammonia is 0 i just think i didnt have enough sponges with established bacteria so it wasnt keeping up with nitrite @.@ but glad to know they will be ok until tomorrow. First time i needed a QT tank so def a lesson learned.