Bad day.
So this morning I get a call from a friend of mine that needed an emergency ride to the hospital...while I was drip-dosing a two part calc/alk additive. Needless to say in the rush, I forgot to stop the additives... I came home to an extremely cloudy (white) tank.
I immediately stopped the dosing but I'm not sure what to do next. I'm making as much RODI as I can so that I can mix some fresh saltwater up and start water changes...
Is there anything else I can do?
Nothing looks incredibly stressed at this point, other than me, but this can't be good. I was only dripping the additive so it isn't like I emptied all of it in there, but obviously it was way too much.
Ugh. So...did I in all likelihood just kill my tank or is there still a good chance things will pull through? Would I be better off trying to set up a couple rubbermaid containers as quarantine tanks for the fish and/or corals while I figure out how to fix the main tank or should I use the new saltwater I'm going to make to do water changes? At this point, I plan on doing the latter. Unfortunately, I don't have much water right now and I have a LOT of water volume (350g or so) so it is going to be a while before I can do much of anything at all.
I feel like such an idiot.
Joe
So this morning I get a call from a friend of mine that needed an emergency ride to the hospital...while I was drip-dosing a two part calc/alk additive. Needless to say in the rush, I forgot to stop the additives... I came home to an extremely cloudy (white) tank.
I immediately stopped the dosing but I'm not sure what to do next. I'm making as much RODI as I can so that I can mix some fresh saltwater up and start water changes...
Is there anything else I can do?
Nothing looks incredibly stressed at this point, other than me, but this can't be good. I was only dripping the additive so it isn't like I emptied all of it in there, but obviously it was way too much.
Ugh. So...did I in all likelihood just kill my tank or is there still a good chance things will pull through? Would I be better off trying to set up a couple rubbermaid containers as quarantine tanks for the fish and/or corals while I figure out how to fix the main tank or should I use the new saltwater I'm going to make to do water changes? At this point, I plan on doing the latter. Unfortunately, I don't have much water right now and I have a LOT of water volume (350g or so) so it is going to be a while before I can do much of anything at all.
I feel like such an idiot.
Joe
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