bleach poured in tank

[Henry Colf]

How do I get all of the bleach out of my tank that my 18 yr.old poured in it.my protien skimmer was filling up its cup about every 5 min. I changed about 20 gal. of my 120. My polyps are opening up again and some montipora(Brown)

[titleist]

Boy, what a bummer....

Water change after water change. How much got in there?

[Kent E]

Sorry to hear that. I sincerely worry about this too.
What was he thinking when he pured it in? I don't mean that in a mean way, sometimes they think they are doing something wonderful.


I have a dedicated fish room but you never know what kids will do.

[MarksReef]

You may want to do a larger water change. Try posting this in the Reef chemistry forum and see if you should be adding some kind of dechlorinator or Amquel .
Any idea how much went in ?

[Joxer]

At 80 degrees most if not all of the bleach will evaporate in 24 hr. in an open system. I think the damage is done. That being said i would do water changes daily for a week.

[Gary Majchrzak]

Originally posted by Kent E
Sorry to hear that. I sincerely worry about this too.
What was he thinking when he pured it in? I don't mean that in a mean way, sometimes they think they are doing something wonderful.

An 18 year old?

Do water changes. Lots of 'em.
The damage is done. Hopefully the impact will be minimal.

[SuzLucky]

I concur, do daily water changes. Maybe you had algae and he wanted to "clean" up the tank?

[jstraka1]

Might be a good idea to add some dechlorinator, is'nt bleach chlorine?


J.

[silkchaos]

Originally posted by Gary Majchrzak
An 18 year old?

Kick out the 18 year old?

[Henry Colf]

shes gone i started doing water changes last night, and i will get some de-chlorinater as well as some carbon. I have a handful of corals left

[crp]

*** happened?

[DSkidmore]

I wish you the best of luck working things out with your child. I'm guessing there was a problem before the bleach incident.

[jstraka1]

Put some bleach in his/her cheerio's, naw just kiddin', best of luck.



J.

[wastememphis]

so what exactally happend

[afss]

thats nuts. Sorry to hear that aside from whats been said i can't think of anything other than good luck with your tank and your 18 year old

[Paul B]

Your tank will probably be better now than it ever was. I treat my NSW with Clorox. The bleach will leave on it's own or all the methods mentioned will work including carbon.
Paul

[skippy2]

Curious to see how your tank is doing. I hope good. Bleach must not be to bad. I have seen pics of PaulB's tank and it is gorgeous.
P.S. How is your daughter doing?

[Kent E]

I guess I'm familiar with the little guys, 2 and 3 years. Maybe an 18 yr old is being vengeful. Sorry to hear that, that can be worse than the tank problem.

best of luck for both problems.

[shavedhead]

Hey Henry.....for what its worth....medically speaking Clorox bleach has been so tested, retested, reformulated and de-funk-ified over the years that there is very little that ER's do when a child drinks it.....it's almost virtually harmless...I think the methods that have been suggested....H2O changes, Charcoal, etc. will work just fine !!!

[Henry Colf]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions,I did'nt lose everything all of my Acro's and a few soft corals and a large closed brain. I changed the carbon in one of my filters,did a water change and added de-chlorinator. so far the corals that are left look to be doing fine. As far as my daughter well I hope she gets the help she needs.

[jcanute]

i have a 21 year old daughter that is "difficult" too. best of luck . have faith.