Sk8r
06/09/2014, 02:54 PM
If you're overheated:
Turn off the lights, put a fan on the water surfaces, float a ziplock bag of ice. The fan is most effective: you can get them to install permanently in your canopy.
If your tank cracks:
The point-at-which says how low the water will go. ALWAYS have buckets, but mixing bowls can serve in a crisis. Save what water you can, put the critters in it, and trust your rock and sand will survive even if exposed to air: wrap rock in newspaper, get a new tank, wash and Prime your sand, and prepare to keep everything in qt until the new tank has pulled a mini-cycle (usually in 5 days).
If somebody drops something into your tank:
If it's sugar or alcohol, it's bad but not that bad: do a water change, test, and hope it wasn't very much of either.
If it's metallic or a battery, put Polyfilter into the tank and do a water change and run carbon.
If it's cereal or fish food, net it out, do a 30% water change, wait 2 days and do a 20%. You may have to prepare for a tank crash emergency.
If a fullblown tank crash has begun and fish are anywhere near going short of air and gasping at surface, get all fish and corals to clean water, never mind cycling. Get them out of there, including inverts. This relieves the biopressure on the tank immediately. Now start with the 30% water change, maybe a 20% in two days, meanwhile run carbon, run a filter sock, and test your water. When it all stabilizes again, you can put everything back.
Fish fight: turn out the lights. QT the resident bully for 2 days, then put him back and see if it's better. If not, somebody goes back to the lfs, as a donation if necessary.
Turn off the lights, put a fan on the water surfaces, float a ziplock bag of ice. The fan is most effective: you can get them to install permanently in your canopy.
If your tank cracks:
The point-at-which says how low the water will go. ALWAYS have buckets, but mixing bowls can serve in a crisis. Save what water you can, put the critters in it, and trust your rock and sand will survive even if exposed to air: wrap rock in newspaper, get a new tank, wash and Prime your sand, and prepare to keep everything in qt until the new tank has pulled a mini-cycle (usually in 5 days).
If somebody drops something into your tank:
If it's sugar or alcohol, it's bad but not that bad: do a water change, test, and hope it wasn't very much of either.
If it's metallic or a battery, put Polyfilter into the tank and do a water change and run carbon.
If it's cereal or fish food, net it out, do a 30% water change, wait 2 days and do a 20%. You may have to prepare for a tank crash emergency.
If a fullblown tank crash has begun and fish are anywhere near going short of air and gasping at surface, get all fish and corals to clean water, never mind cycling. Get them out of there, including inverts. This relieves the biopressure on the tank immediately. Now start with the 30% water change, maybe a 20% in two days, meanwhile run carbon, run a filter sock, and test your water. When it all stabilizes again, you can put everything back.
Fish fight: turn out the lights. QT the resident bully for 2 days, then put him back and see if it's better. If not, somebody goes back to the lfs, as a donation if necessary.