Toxic Tides: Have toxins ever been accidentally introduced into your tank?

Have toxins ever been accidentally introduced into your tank? What was the outcome?

  • Yes, I accidentally introduced toxins into my tank.

    Votes: 16 22.2%
  • Yes, someone else accidentally introduced toxins into my tank.

    Votes: 3 4.2%
  • No, but there have been close calls.

    Votes: 7 9.7%
  • No, thankfully.

    Votes: 46 63.9%
  • Other (please explain).

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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AlyciaMarie

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When you mix a piece of the ocean with domestic living, you're bound to have some interaction between the two. Hopefully, the majority of these interactions are harmless: maybe your kid lunches a Lego into your ATO, or maybe the dog attempted to help you clean your glass with its tongue. But accidents happen, and maybe your spouse got a little too close with the air freshener when trying to eliminate all of those smells, or perhaps you grabbed the wrong bottle while doing routine dosing...

Have toxins ever been accidentally introduced into your tank? What was the outcome of the tank's exposure to the toxins?

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last month, apparently my magnets gave out on my LED light bar and the whole bar and all the batteries sat in my tank for 24 hours, when i pulled it out a brown rusty sludge was pouring out. i did a 100% water change split over next 3 days...... my recent ICP came back ok
 

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We live at the beach and my son thought it would be a good idea to bring home some snails and kelp for the 450 and as most of us already know, it was not a good idea at all. It introduced some type of bacteria into my tank and the results were devastating - lots of fish died and it took months to get things sorted back out and stabilized.
 

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We’ve had numerous clients in office/professional settings over the years, and unfortunately, I’ve seen more than a few wipeouts due to custodial services spraying chemicals around and even on the tanks.
 

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I came home from work and my wife had had the couch next to my tank dry cleaned and put a big fan blowing across the couch at my tank. 90% of my perfectly healthy healthy birdsnest was a pure white skeleton. The last picture is the current state of the frag I was able to save. I never said anything to her.
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I had one incident on my first reef tank. I misread the dosing instructions for a particular item. that liquid was VIBRANT. The instruction said to dose like 1ML, and i ended up dosing 100ML or so. In a very short time (hours), my serpent sea star lost all it's legs (they literally fell off in pieces), lost all my CUC's and a fish or two.

in summary, pay very close attention to where the decimal lies in the amount that you need to dose, along with the amount required, and triple check. Don't do what I did.
 
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I'll kick it off by saying YES!

I'm ashamed to say I was the spouse who got too close to the air freshener. Thankfully, everything was fine, and a lesson was learned. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
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I was feeding my fish some plankton and grabbed the wrong bottle and dumped in some Kratom. Corals do not eat Kratom and they were not happy, but lived.

I've also had heaters explode and leak whatever was inside of them into the tank but I didn't see anything as a result.

My wife was watching the reef while I was away for a week, thankfully came home early to find she had been topping of the tank with saltwater. Nothing obvious happened (except that I locked her inside a cupboard until she appologized.) :thinking-face: :cool:
 

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Sooooo. Wax Burners in the home will create a white hairline fungus under your rocks. I’ve found that chemiclean will clear it up if used correctly. That’s the only toxins that have got into my tank that I know of. It took me time to figure it out though lol.
 

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I was feeding my fish some plankton and grabbed the wrong bottle and dumped in some Kratom. Corals do not eat Kratom and they were not happy, but lived.

I've also had heaters explode and leak whatever was inside of them into the tank but I didn't see anything as a result.

My wife was watching the reef while I was away for a week, thankfully came home early to find she had been topping of the tank with saltwater. Nothing obvious happened (except that I locked her inside a cupboard until she appologized.) :thinking-face: :cool:
when i first started my tank, my LFS, and the few videos i had watched, no one told me to top off with freshwater, so for the first few weeks i kept putting saltwater back in, and couldnt figure out why my salt level wouldnt stabilize lol. one day i was watching a BRS video and the guy mentioned filling your topoff with fresh and i googled it and was like ohhhhhh that makes sense, salt doesnt evaporate.....water does
 

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