Will my hippo tang be ok in my 15 gallon temporarily tomorrow afternoon

[spoons]

In my 15 gallon I were to go change my filter media and I accidentally dropped all of the waste inside of my tank and my hippo tang fell to the bottom into the side and wasn’t moving so I ended up putting it in my 15 gallon reef tank just for tomorrow afternoon (Bc I have school) until my tank clears all up just to be safe and I was wondering if that will be alright I’ll attach pictures

 

[Tamberav]

I think it will but both tanks need more rock for fish to hide and feel comfortable.

I would do a water change on the tank you dropped the waste into.

 

[spoons]

I think it will but both tanks need more rock for fish to hide and feel comfortable.

Yes I bought 40 pounds of live rock to come on Wednesday so I’m just wating

 

[Jeffcb]

You may want to change some water on the big tank.

 

[davidcalgary29]

Large diameter PVC short pipe lengths can be used as resting and/or hiding places for your fish while you wait for your live rock. Make sure that they're clean, new, and have no traces of chemicals on them if you plan to use them for this purpose, though.

Or you could simply turn out the lights to lessen the stress on the fish.

 

[spoons]

You may want to change some water on the big tank.

The thing is I would but literally right before that happend I did a 25% water change so I don’t really want to take any more cycled water out

 

[davidcalgary29]

The thing is I would but literally right before that happend I did a 25% water change so I don’t really want to take any more cycled water out

Comparatively few nitrifying bacteria live in the water column; they're in your rocks and substrate. People here do 50% or 100% water changes quite frequently, and I've never heard of fish loss from this yet. If you want to be especially careful and avoid disturbing the substrate, you can pour new water onto a plate or tray so that it doesn't stir up a whole bunch of detritus on the way down.

 

[Sebastiancrab]

Check your water parameters. I would add some PolyFilter as a precaution. You can purchase it at your LFS, BRS or on Amazon.

 

[spoons]

Comparatively few nitrifying bacteria live in the water column; they're in your rocks and substrate. People here do 50% or 100% water changes quite frequently, and I've never heard of fish loss from this yet. If you want to be especially careful and avoid disturbing the substrate, you can pour new water onto a plate or tray so that it doesn't stir up a whole bunch of detritus on the way down.

Thank you for the awesome tip

 

[Spare time]

What filter waste did you drop in?

 

[spoons]

Like food poop and other stuff

 

[Spare time]

Like food poop and other stuff

Oh ok so not carbon or filter media like such?

 

[spoons]

Oh ok so not carbon or filter media like such?

No so what happened is I lifted up the pad thingy and I forgot it was on and it went everywhere