carbon pieces in tank!!! HELP!

[cain420]

ok, so some "superpower" decided that after i rinsed the carbon for over 15 minutes to get all dust out and hooked the canister back to the display.. some small pieces of carbon shot right into the tank...
Is this going to kill anything such as corals or fish?
how worried do I need to be?
what should i do?
seems like it is one thing after another with my luck..

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by cain420
ok, so some "superpower" decided that after i rinsed the carbon for over 15 minutes to get all dust out and hooked the canister back to the display.. some small pieces of carbon shot right into the tank...
Is this going to kill anything such as corals or fish?
how worried do I need to be?
what should i do?
seems like it is one thing after another with my luck..
Use a siphon hose to suck those carbon pieces out. I wouldn't leave'em in there!!! As they will des centigrade and turns into something, can't remember what it was...maybe someone knows.... :happyfish

 

[cain420]

i stirred the sandbed up real good, ended up breakin a piece off my brand new coral, and there are still a few pieces scattered around and prolly inside the rocks.. i sure hope the $3000 i have spent isnt all going to be toxic now..

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by cain420
i stirred the sandbed up real good, ended up breakin a piece off my brand new coral, and there are still a few pieces scattered around and prolly inside the rocks.. i sure hope the $3000 i have spent isnt all going to be toxic now..
As long as you get most of it out, I wouldn't think it would be a problem. What coral did you break off?? :happyfish

 

[cain420]

a piece of the colt coral that i just bought yesterday.. cuz somehow it came unlodged from where i had put it and fell while i was trying to get carbon out...

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by cain420
a piece of the colt coral that i just bought yesterday.. cuz somehow it came unlodged from where i had put it and fell while i was trying to get carbon out...
I would just attach that piece to a rock, it'll grow from there. Eventually you can trade that piece for something else, it's your first coral frag!!! :happyfish
ps. I haven't see Jerth around, have you?? He hasn't replied back to our thread yet in days....

 

[cain420]

i put it as much onto a rock as i could.. no glue here.. but i hope both pieces make it!
hes prolly busy.. i havent seen chadman either lol

 

[alyssia]

I have had loose carbon in my tank that I couldn't get to and it didn't hurt anything.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by alyssia
I have had loose carbon in my tank that I couldn't get to and it didn't hurt anything.

Ditto..... Also, it's in your filter, correct? If and when you see the pieces pull them out. A few pieces isn't anything to get concerned over. The concern with leaving carbon in a filter too long is that it can leach back in what it pulled out and PO4.

 

[uberlink]

Originally Posted by cain420
i put it as much onto a rock as i could.. no glue here.. but i hope both pieces make it!
hes prolly busy.. i havent seen chadman either lol
If you don't have glue, take a toothpick and stick it through the base of the coral crosswise (like the axle of a car). Then you can use a rubber band to fix it to another rock--glue free. After it attaches to the rock (a few weeks), remove the rubber band and carefully pull out the toothpick.