Help! Bleach residue in tank...

allirudy

New Member
Please help! I re-activated my Purigen with bleach yesterday, de-chlorinated, and put it back in the tank early this morning. After work (9 hours later) I discovered my skimmer CRAZY full of bubbles. The fishies look fine, even the snails look OK. The anemone and zooanthid corals aren't super-happy though. I re-read the re-activation instructions and realized I didn't use enough dechlorinator. I just finished doing a 15% water change, and turned off the skimmer for now because it's doing nothing but overflowing... I also added some dechlorinator directly into the tank.
What else can I do? Will the bleach residue kill my live rock? If the fish and inverts seem OK, am I OK?
Such a stupid mistake
-- please help! I don't want any of my little buddies dying on me!
THANK YOU in advance for any help!
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Relax put some declorinator in it, that should help your out. Clorine is very unstable, and should pretty quickly dissapate under direct strong lighting. But make sure to run your skimmer to oxygenate your tank.
 
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