Accidental Carbon Dosing Overdose

[aaron186]

Help! I accidentally dosed 100ml of Tropic Marin Elimi NP carbon dosing instead of 1mL. Stupid mistake on my doser. I have a bacterial bloom and a lot of my corals looks a little angry. What should I do? It was dosed about 12 hours ago

 

[aaron186]

I do have UV running and a skimmer

 

[steven168ny]

Water change.

 

[aaron186]

I did a 30% water change. Added new activated carbon to reactor, took off the lid of my skimmer and cranked the pump to high, added 2 air stones, and I’m running a 25 watt uv sterlizer?

Besides not being careless, is there anything else I should do to help my tank survive this?

 

[Outlaw Corals]

I did a 30% water change. Added new activated carbon to reactor, took off the lid of my skimmer and cranked the pump to high, added 2 air stones, and I’m running a 25 watt uv sterlizer?

Besides not being careless, is there anything else I should do to help my tank survive this?

Another water change

 

[Reef.]

Think you have probably done enough, oxygen starvation is the biggest risk, if the fish look to be struggling then another water change…maybe also worth keeping an eye on po4 and nitrates as you don’t want them going to zero…elimi is only a food source so shouldn’t be a serious problem apart from as said the oxygen lvls dropping.

 

[aaron186]

Think you have probably done enough, oxygen starvation is the biggest risk, if the fish look to be struggling then another water change…maybe also worth keeping an eye on po4 and nitrates as you don’t want them going to zero…elimi is only a food source so shouldn’t be a serious problem apart from as said the oxygen lvls dropping.

Thanks
I just refilled my SW res. I have a 50 gal brute with about 40 gal of salt water. I usually run auto water changes of 1.4% per day. I just reset my apex to do a 30 gal change over the next 24 hours. So it should be exchanging a little more than a gallon an hour continuously. I’m hoping that is enough to keep everything alive.

This in addition to the 30% bucket exchange I did today is about 60% over 36 hours or so. Although I think the continuous water change of 30% is equivalent to about 24% of a traditional bucket water change according to Dr Holmes

 

[gbroadbridge]

I did a 30% water change. Added new activated carbon to reactor, took off the lid of my skimmer and cranked the pump to high, added 2 air stones, and I’m running a 25 watt uv sterlizer?

Besides not being careless, is there anything else I should do to help my tank survive this?

Water changes, but quick ones, not AWC spread over hours.

You want to remove the carbon (pollutant) quickly - removing slowly will just give bacteria food for longer.

 

[aaron186]

I changed another 30 gal this morning in addition to the 30 I didn’t yesterday and the 10 gal that the AWC did overnight. Total of 70 gal, about 70%. My favorite stylo RTNed. Fish all seem ok. Nothing else seems to have died yet but nothing looks happy. I have 4 air stones running plus my skimmer pump on high with the lid off. UV is running. Water is still pretty cloudy

So mad at myself

 

[aaron186]

Update: still cloudy. My stylos and birdsnests have all RTNed… oddly my acros still look good. Most of the LPS is closed up. Fish all seem to be fine. Doing another water change today when I get home from work

 

[Reef.]

If doing another water change, maybe wet skimming could help.