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So last week one of my three year old twins got hold of my iron trace element and tipped it all in the tank.
I have a lock on the sump door and try and take all precautions. However a brief lapse in concentration could have been worse if she decided to do something else with it, so for that I'm very thankful.
Anyway back to the tank. Although I caught her I didn't catch her tipping it in and only noticed when I discovered the bottle was empty 8 hours later.
I carried out a 10% water change as that was all the salt I could mix until I got to the LFS the next day. Since then I've been doing large water changes.
The corals all look unharmed and alk consumption has not gone down. The only victim so far appears to be my foxface. He stopped eating and went downhill. I setup a qt tank but it was too late.
A week after the incident I've managed to finally get hold of a iron test kit and sent off an ICP. I took a sample of the water at the time and have tested today.
Water after discovery was off the scale, 1mg/litre.
Now is down to 0.05mg/litre.
So my question is would a high iron reading cause oxygen depletion that could have lead to the demise of my foxface?
Also my ph reading seems to be higher, is this linked? I know I now have other factors at play to remove the iron.
I have a lock on the sump door and try and take all precautions. However a brief lapse in concentration could have been worse if she decided to do something else with it, so for that I'm very thankful.
Anyway back to the tank. Although I caught her I didn't catch her tipping it in and only noticed when I discovered the bottle was empty 8 hours later.
I carried out a 10% water change as that was all the salt I could mix until I got to the LFS the next day. Since then I've been doing large water changes.
The corals all look unharmed and alk consumption has not gone down. The only victim so far appears to be my foxface. He stopped eating and went downhill. I setup a qt tank but it was too late.
A week after the incident I've managed to finally get hold of a iron test kit and sent off an ICP. I took a sample of the water at the time and have tested today.
Water after discovery was off the scale, 1mg/litre.
Now is down to 0.05mg/litre.
So my question is would a high iron reading cause oxygen depletion that could have lead to the demise of my foxface?
Also my ph reading seems to be higher, is this linked? I know I now have other factors at play to remove the iron.