Need Help A.S.A.P

g-stacks

Member
My gf went to feed my fish this morning , while she went to feed the fish my dog got in the way and triped her and she spilled the entire contents (80g.) of spectrum into my 29 gallon tank. Theres food everywhere what should i do?
 

david24

Member
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.
 

digitydash

Active Member
Originally Posted by David24
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
 

b bauer

Member
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.
was it eating your home work when you tripped over it lol
 

g-stacks

Member
So the food became heavily mixed wit the sand so i had to pull out all of my LS and there was still a ton food left at the bottom of my tank. did about a 50% water change and bought new LS cleaned up my LR put my fish back in the tank water is still a little murky but coral seems to be doing great
. But i dont think my gobe will make it.
 

g-stacks

Member
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.
 
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