bigben2057
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Hmm thats strange vinegar is very weak. Sucks though hope you get through it without a loss.
bigben2057 said:Hmm thats strange vinegar is very weak. Sucks though hope you get through it without a loss.
bavass said:I can't imagine you getting that much vinegar in there to drop PH. I dose about 50mL a day to my 55g with no PH drop. When i do clean with vinegar i soak everything after
reefrunner69 said:I'm glad you got it under control, but your math is off. 270ml is way less than a gallon. 1 gallon = ~3785 ml. So much less vinegar than you thought. 270 ml is a little over 18 tablespoons.
Good luck with the bacterial bloom, I had one this week (not nearly as bad as yours) and just waited it out.
The way it happened i can easily see that much getting in there. In a 5g bucket after all 2g of it was vinegar. The skimmer holds about 1.5 g or so, so i dumped a good amount in the tank.
Here is this mornings bloom.
reefrunner69 said:This is what I was replying to.
The "after all 2g of it was vinegar. "
Obviously you meant that was your soaking solution and I mistook it as you pouring 5g of water into your tank 2g of which was vinegar. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
CorallineAlgae said:This could be relevant but I'm not sure. I used to use an acclimation method for fish that were shipped across the country called ammonia acclimation. I learned it from an international Florida live animal importer. What you do, simplified, is to take the fish that arrived from the bags and pour them into a styrofoam box then test the pH with a meter. Sometimes it was below 6. Then I would take tank water and add muriatic acid until the pH matched the water that the fish came in. I then drip acclimated them to allow them to safely flush out the ammonia that was in their tissue. Ammonia is incredibly destructive to saltwater fish at normal pH levels but not at low pH levels. You then discard most of the ammonia diluted low pH water and re-acclimate them with higher pH water (about 7-7.5), then pour out the water again and acclimate them a final time with regular tank water. The survival rate that came from all this work was draaaastically higher than any other method I know of but the big benefit was much less fish illness.
I'm just telling you this because I know that fish trapped in a bag with very low pH, high ammonia and low oxygen can survive just fine if the ammonia is dealt with. The brief low pH drop you had shouldn't harm them much if at all the way you handled it. I wish I knew what to tell you about your corals but I think most if them will recover. I can't say that I know a single reefer, including myself, who could've done as good of a job as you did. Plus you were already exhausted when all this went down. Thumbs up!
Schism said:Corals look a little PO'd but should pull through just fine. Cant see the back glass yet.
CorallineAlgae said:Corals look a little PO'd... LMAO
Do you run Purigen? It won't fix the BB but it's great at pulling out the dissolved organics that the skimmer may miss.
Schism said:
I have carbon running in a reactor along with GFO. Hard to tell but looks like its gotten a tad clearer, still milky tho.
CorallineAlgae said:Do you run them together in the same reactor? My brother tried that and ended up grinding his GFO into mud. I heard that they can be run together if you separate them with a sponge. Glad to hear it's clearing up!