Test reagents harmfulness

[Mr V]

Hi guy,
Long story short, my son dropped the waste cup that I collect waste water after test. I already email Hanna, Redsea but I haven't received their answer yet.
I need expert advises about if those test reagents contain harmful chemical, if so, how bad is it: hanna phosphorus, hanna alkalinity, elos nitrate, salifert mag, cal, nitrate, redsea cal, redsea mag.

So far fishes are okay, some sps colonies turn black and lost pe.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Flippers4pups]

What's your total water volume? How much liquid was dumped?

 

[Mr V]

What's your total water volume? How much liquid was dumped?

The total water volume around 120 gallons. I don't know exactly how much liquid wad dumped. but it was accumulated of many tests for sure.

 

[Flippers4pups]

The total water volume around 120 gallons. I don't know exactly how much liquid wad dumped. but it was accumulated of many tests for sure.

Large water change, run some GAC.

 

[Mr V]

Large water change, run some GAC.

I forgot to mention I did 60 gallons water change along with using roughly 1 gallon of 0.8 ROX carbon, skimming wet.

What I want to know is anyone know what exactly in those reagents and how harmful they are toward living organisms.

 

[erk]

@Randy Holmes-Farley can maybe help you out.

 

[Flippers4pups]

I forgot to mention I did 60 gallons water change along with using roughly 1 gallon of 0.8 ROX carbon, skimming wet.

What I want to know is anyone know what exactly in those reagents and how harmful they are toward living organisms.

Wish I could help. Randy might know. I do believe though you did the right thing in the water change and GAC.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

It couldn’t hurt to get a chemipad, Cuprisorb or metasorb in there also

 

[CoralNerd]

Slip a Polyfilter in perhaps it will change color. The color it changes to indicates what's in the water.
Have you sent the water out for a ICP test? I have one handy if you want it.

 

[ahiggins]

While I can’t speak for all test kits, the majority of ones I’ve used have been harmless chemicals. Example: checking for ammonia? It’s a mostly caustic reagent. Checking dkh? Acid. Plus, the majority of the sample is your tank water. So my estimate would be whatever dumped into your tank, only 10-20% was actual chemical reagents. Out of that, maybe 25% max are unknown reagents. Even those unknown reagents can be things like potassium, bleach, and iodide (things most people use to dose their tanks)
My advice? Don’t freak out and run your tank into the ground by over filtering/carbon’ing it. Wait for their response. If they don’t within 24 hours, call.
I’m not nearly as versed as the Randy’s of the world but if you are super concerned-search for the sds’s (safety data sheet) of the reagents. Section 3 will tell you all of the ingredients used in it. You already know the buzzwords of things you don’t want (like iron for example) so look at the % contained as well.