How worried should I be?

[chadfish]

Last week, while I was fragging Zoas off some rocks, I accidentally knocked a pair of tweezers into the tank. They quickly disappeared.

I searched and searched, I dug down into my sandbed, reached under arches, shined flashlights all around… nothing.

Should I be taking drastic action to find and remove them before they rust? For me, drastic action would be removing rocks with Acros on them, trying not to accidentally damage anything.

 

[thrillreefer]

How big of a tweezer? If you could estimate the weight you could estimate the max impact on iron, nickel, cobalt etc based on typical stainless compositions. The divide over a year’s (?) worth of water change volume, thinking it might take that long or longer to decompose. Or just ICP test to know if/when it’s becoming problematic. Better to find it though!

 

[Darin c]

Try a magnet!! You can find a nice telescoped one at auto parts stores

 

[coralfishreef]

Try a magnet!! You can find a nice telescoped one at auto parts stores

Tunze ph magnet on a string worked when this happened to me.

 

[chadfish]

Magnet is a great idea. Duh. I should’ve thought of that.

These are small tweezers you would use for your eyebrows. Not reefing tweezers. They have a black coating on them but they are stainless https://a.co/d/9KkjOFw

 

[reefstarter]

Most likely they aren’t 316 stainless more likely it’s 304 . Which does have some magnetism to it . You will need a pretty good magnetic to retrieve them . But nothing crazy like said above auto parts store type . Just be careful about bumping it in to things as you go by .