Urgent Help Needed!!! - Aquarium Advice

WillMurf · 12-30-2005, 05:25 AM

I just gravel cleaned and realised i have no neutralizer at all is there an alternative my plants won't survive the low level and my heater won't be fully submerged and i can't get neutralizer till the morning! Please please help!

sherry · 12-30-2005, 05:31 AM

There isn't an alternative. if your heater is submersible, just lay it in the water or un plug it...

no reason to think your plants will die if they are mostly wet. many plants grow partly emersed in nature

Toirtis · 12-30-2005, 05:38 AM

Agreed....or, if you have a water-filter, you could use water out of that.

WillMurf · 12-30-2005, 06:09 AM

So should i risk it and fill it with tap water or just sit and suffer. I have a resin back drop with java moss and another really fine plant growing on it as well as my miniture water lillies and all of them are above waterline at the moment. Don't mean to winge but it took me a long time to get the plants to take and they are actually growing out of the wall quite well. and i just realised it won't be untill tomorrow afternoon when i get home from working at the [acronym:2c44f1bbc3="Local Fish Store"]LFS[/acronym:2c44f1bbc3].

Toirtis · 12-30-2005, 06:29 AM

Does your water treatment plant use chlorine or chloramine?

WillMurf · 12-30-2005, 06:35 AM

I don't know but it is 7.2 pH constantly

Toirtis · 12-30-2005, 06:38 AM

That doesn't help, I am afraid....if it were just chlorine, then heating up some and aerating it for a few minutes would dissipate most of the chlorine, but if it has chloramines, that would not work.

WillMurf · 12-30-2005, 06:43 AM

I may have another option hopefully. Would it work if i got the water out of my guppy breeding tank and put that in? My guppies are all healthy and they should survive a dose of untreated water shouldn't they? It is a pretty well matured tank as well.

WillMurf · 12-30-2005, 06:46 AM

I may have another option hopefully. Would it work if i got the water out of my guppy breeding tank and put that in? My guppies are all healthy and they should survive a dose of untreated water shouldn't they? It is a pretty well matured tank as well.

Toirtis · 12-30-2005, 06:49 AM

Well, I wouldn't risk the guppies, but you could remove some water from the guppy tank (not so much as to affect the guppies for the next 16 hours or so) and put that in the planted tank to raise the level some.

12-30-2005, 05:25 AM	#1
WillMurf Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Rockhampton Australia Posts: 41	Urgent Help Needed!!! I just gravel cleaned and realised i have no neutralizer at all is there an alternative my plants won't survive the low level and my heater won't be fully submerged and i can't get neutralizer till the morning! Please please help!

12-30-2005, 05:38 AM	#3
Toirtis Aquarium Advice Addict Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,768	Agreed....or, if you have a water-filter, you could use water out of that. __________________ G. A. Christian Bilou, Zoologist/Writer Founder/Director, Reptile Rescue Alberta Vice-President, Calgary Aquarium Society www.calgaryaquariumsociety.com Polypterid/Primitive Fish/Ctenopoma/Catfish Fanatic 62 Aquariums, 2200+ total gallons, Aquarist since 1971.

12-30-2005, 06:29 AM	#5
Toirtis Aquarium Advice Addict Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,768	Does your water treatment plant use chlorine or chloramine? __________________ G. A. Christian Bilou, Zoologist/Writer Founder/Director, Reptile Rescue Alberta Vice-President, Calgary Aquarium Society www.calgaryaquariumsociety.com Polypterid/Primitive Fish/Ctenopoma/Catfish Fanatic 62 Aquariums, 2200+ total gallons, Aquarist since 1971.

12-30-2005, 06:38 AM	#7
Toirtis Aquarium Advice Addict Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,768	That doesn't help, I am afraid....if it were just chlorine, then heating up some and aerating it for a few minutes would dissipate most of the chlorine, but if it has chloramines, that would not work. __________________ G. A. Christian Bilou, Zoologist/Writer Founder/Director, Reptile Rescue Alberta Vice-President, Calgary Aquarium Society www.calgaryaquariumsociety.com Polypterid/Primitive Fish/Ctenopoma/Catfish Fanatic 62 Aquariums, 2200+ total gallons, Aquarist since 1971.

12-30-2005, 06:49 AM	#10
Toirtis Aquarium Advice Addict Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,768	Well, I wouldn't risk the guppies, but you could remove some water from the guppy tank (not so much as to affect the guppies for the next 16 hours or so) and put that in the planted tank to raise the level some. __________________ G. A. Christian Bilou, Zoologist/Writer Founder/Director, Reptile Rescue Alberta Vice-President, Calgary Aquarium Society www.calgaryaquariumsociety.com Polypterid/Primitive Fish/Ctenopoma/Catfish Fanatic 62 Aquariums, 2200+ total gallons, Aquarist since 1971.

12-30-2005, 05:31 AM	#2
sherry Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: new york city Posts: 539 Images: 2	There isn't an alternative. if your heater is submersible, just lay it in the water or un plug it... no reason to think your plants will die if they are mostly wet. many plants grow partly emersed in nature

12-30-2005, 06:09 AM	#4
WillMurf Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Rockhampton Australia Posts: 41	So should i risk it and fill it with tap water or just sit and suffer. I have a resin back drop with java moss and another really fine plant growing on it as well as my miniture water lillies and all of them are above waterline at the moment. Don't mean to winge but it took me a long time to get the plants to take and they are actually growing out of the wall quite well. and i just realised it won't be untill tomorrow afternoon when i get home from working at the [acronym:2c44f1bbc3="Local Fish Store"]LFS[/acronym:2c44f1bbc3].

12-30-2005, 06:35 AM	#6
WillMurf Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Rockhampton Australia Posts: 41	I don't know but it is 7.2 pH constantly

12-30-2005, 06:43 AM	#8
WillMurf Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Rockhampton Australia Posts: 41	I may have another option hopefully. Would it work if i got the water out of my guppy breeding tank and put that in? My guppies are all healthy and they should survive a dose of untreated water shouldn't they? It is a pretty well matured tank as well.

12-30-2005, 06:46 AM	#9
WillMurf Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Rockhampton Australia Posts: 41	I may have another option hopefully. Would it work if i got the water out of my guppy breeding tank and put that in? My guppies are all healthy and they should survive a dose of untreated water shouldn't they? It is a pretty well matured tank as well.

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