I’m sorry but this has nothing to do with this post, for some reason I can’t message anyone a question I’m facing. My 3 year old dropped a cookie into our salt water tank like 20 minutes ago, keep in mind we just set up our tank about 5 days ago. Is this a bad thing? Should we start all over again, or will it filter out?
My 3 year old dropped a cookie into our salt water tank like 20 minutes ago, keep in mind we just set up our tank about 5 days ago. Is this a bad thing? Should we start all over again, or will it filter out? :-?
I’m sorry but LOL did you get most of the cookie out or did it just dissolve into nothing?? What do you have in the tank? If there are no tank in habitants I’d just give it a little water change and let it keep on running.
Part of it dissolved. But we got most of the cookie out. There are still like 3 chocolate chips in there. But we aren’t throughly screwed? LOL There is live rock in the tank, but that’s it.
lOl
Welcome to the world of saltwater where anything that can happen will… net out what you can and then sit back and relax. only five days into cyling all you did was to add a little food to the tank. what are you using to cyle your tank? going fishless?
See if you can siphon out the chocolate chips, give it a few hours and do a 10% water change. If you have a skimmer it will really help to pull out any of the organics from the cookie that disolve. I don’t think your screwed.
ROTHFLMAO. I think your tank is going to be fine. Just syphon out as much of the cookie as you can. I have never heard of a tank being nuked by a cookie.
Oh and Welcome to DRC!
It’s a 55 gallon tank, there is 2 no. 4 powerheads inside the tank, and it’s a penguin 330 filter.
I don’t have a skimmer, but I can net out the chips. How long should I wait to change the water?
-Cookie Monster
There that’s better now we will know who you are…
It should be fine just scoop what you can. It will help the tank cycle lOl
Sugar is great fuel to feed bacteria
Also you could keep the cookie debris moving till the filter removes it. You can do a water change to remove some more. If you have some carbon you can run some to remove any toxins if any.
I’d personally leave it alone. We’ve been known to toss table shrimp in the tank to start a cycle, I don’t see how a little cookie sugar and chocolate is really going to harm anything.
You’'re probably going to end up with the most stable tank out of all of us. None of us have the proper bacteria to break down chocolate. lOl
This would prove to be a very good time to teach the children to never put ANYTHING in to the tank. I don’t even let the kids feed the tank supervised because both have decided to feed it unsupervised.
Should I do a water change, just to be on the safe side?
Eh, I’d probably just give it a day and change some water, you’ll just help the cycle along.
Couldn’t resist
lOl
I’ve made my reputation now. Thanks so much for all your help DRC!
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You have NO IDEA how long we can remind you of things like this YahoO
Yep, thats why Craig has his avatar… notice that that is his basement.
:Welcome) well you are never going to live this down i hope you realize this. you might as well change your avatar to a cookie. you are fine and nothing to worry bout. just use this as a learning lesson … be very careful of what you put in tank. bieng a newbie you will worry about alot of issues and just turn to members for advise, do research, and panic…ALL NORMAL good luck and keep the questions coming.
sorry i could not resist
