Help!

[draconius]

I need to know a good way to detox a tank in a rush, in the last couple days i have noticed some of my snails belly up in the bottom of the tank, i proceeded to flip them over to help them out, and now i am seeing about 5-6 empty shells and a couple of my hermit crab shells belly up, so i took a chem test and as suspected the chemicals were to high. So i need to know a way to detox quickly. I used PRIME chemical, it says it detoxes/removes amonia, nitrate, nitrite from the water. PH was still fine 8.4 and the bottle of prime says to remove nitrite in a hurry add 5 times normal amount, so i did that. Should I do anything else to remove prevent further lose to my snails and potential lose to fish?

 

[40 galons]

id be making some serious water changes!

 

[jmerk]

buy some chemical stuff that won't harm the tank or its inhabitants.
Jmerk

 

[symon]

Water changes will help you out, do them consistantly!

 

[draconius]

Yeah i just did about a 20% change well its in the process took 20% out, and putting it back in to the tank. And its all going thru my RODI, to help out also.

 

[draconius]

Originally Posted by Jmerk
buy some chemical stuff that won't harm the tank or its inhabitants.
Jmerk

yeah prime claims to be non harmful to the inhabitants. So now i got to take some more tests in the afternoon tomorrow to try and give it some time. to balance itself out or something like that.
On a side note You always lived in Providence jmerk? or you lived anywhere else in the state?
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