Help!!! Cigarette Butt

[warvillian]

Ok. Ime setting up a 75 gallong reef tank. Last nite I added some base rock and waiting for the temp. to reach 78 before I added about 4 pounds of live rock from the tank. So far so Good right...wrong I come home from work tonight and look in my sump and there lies a cigarette butt. I dont smoke so I have no idea how it got in there. So my question is how bad is it that I had a cigarette butt in my sump? There is some kind of film on the water in my sump but not in my tank. Do I worry? My parameters are fine so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[the_fish_man]

Do water changes

 

[warvillian]

What chemical should I test for to see it is eventually eliminated?

 

[the_fish_man]

Well as long as your parameters are good it should be fine. What kind of test kit are you using? And again partial water changes are your best friend

 

[warvillian]

It blows because I just set the tank up yesterday with 70 gallons. API master test kit.

 

[joy13]

You should be ok since you are cycling but just to be safe run some carbon.

 

[warvillian]

Do I just add the carbon into my sock?

 

[Hinds04]

lol I was gonna say get it out of there and get some small nicotine patches for the fish

 

[Gti_Leo]

You should be ok since you are cycling but just to be safe run some carbon.

thats what i was thinking when i first read it. the carbon should suck whatever junk is in there out also the ash may add a bit more carbon to the system

and yes just place some carbon in your filter sock and just continue the cycle and everythign should be alright

 

[johnmaloney]

it should be fine, a similar thing happened with me, no damage...whole pack in the tank

 

[the_fish_man]

lol I was gonna say get it out of there and get some small nicotine patches for the fish

lol

 

[dadime69]

Haha I use my sump to put my smokes out when I'm watching everything

 

[scottayy]

Someone put out a cigarette in my tub of RO/DI water. I just emptied it and filled it back up lol. Didn't have any problems.