brine shrimp problem?

[r3dc4t]

yeah so I bought a tube of brine shrimp so i can give my aquarium a treat once in a while, well my kid decided to pour the whole tube in the aqu arium last night while i wasnt in the room, now at least half have hatched and i need to know if this is going to crash my tank do to them eating too many nuetriants and if so what can i do. I noticed the eggs this morning but had to get to work.

 

[sfoister]

Likely you'll be okay. But I don't know how big a tube is. What do you have in the tank that will eat them? How often are you doing water changes?
I would do water changes more frequently, other than that it's not the end of the world.
Monitor your trites, trates and ammonia, change water as necessary.

 

[r3dc4t]

6 GMs of eggs...i'm guessing grams with an incorrect symbol of it? in a 20 gallon tank. I have a small anemone and 6-10 blue legs hermits and 3 damsels 15 lbs of live sand, 20 lbs of live rock. oh and about 10 snails.

 

[cannonman]

6 grams in a 20 gallon tank is A LOT. I put less than that in an empty tank one time as an experimnet to raise them and it crashed the empty tank and stunk to high heaven. I would get right on the water changes and keep up on them for some time!

 

[r3dc4t]

I had the feeling that would be an answer i got, i was hoping my crabs would make a large dent before they hatched, i did notice them eating near where most eggs landed. Wish i had a much larger tank, better chance of successful recovery then. I also noticed one of my damsels may be getting effected too, breathing rather fast.

 

[r3dc4t]

looks like my nitrates and nitrites sky rocketed too...

 

[1journeyman]

You need to start mixing water for water changes. Aerate the water well before you do any water changes.
Watch your anemone closely....

 

[lesleybird]

See if you can get a fine brine shrimp net and get most of them out of there. Or, you could put a micron filter pad in your filter to remove them then take the pad out before they rot in it and cause more of an amonia spike. Lesley

 

[r3dc4t]

its too late at night for me to get supplies to filter or net them, a have my canister filter running hoping it will catch a good deal of them, but ammonia levels have all ready killed one of my damsels, another seems close to death and the other is always hiding so i am unsure of its condition, last i saw it, it didn't seem unhealthy though, i think i am going to start syphoning the water into a makeshift filter of paper towels and put the water back in the tank