Originally Posted by David24
If you don't get the food out it will overload your bioload and restart your cycle. Get as much food out as possible. If you have a reef tank you might need to remove the corals to a bucket temporarly if possible. And suck up as much food as possible. Then put back the corals and do as big a water change as possible.
Make sure you check all power heads and equipment to make sure they haven't sucked in a lot food, if they have clean them. Test your water for a couple days to make sure ammonia doesn't rise, if it goes up at all do a water change again.
Quick story, when I was younger I got mad at my older sister and she ran into the bathroom to get away from me. I tried to follow but she had locked the door. I was so mad i put my hand through the door, it was one of those really cheap hollow doors.
I begged my sister not to tell on me and she agreed she wouldn't. Later when my parents came home I told them I tripped over the dog and my head went through the door.
Can you believe they didn't believe my story? The tripping over the dog excuse reminded me of this situation.
LOL, but i actually saw it, it all happened in slow motion too.