rx330
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hi,
I am starting up my 52G saltwater aquarium, and right now, all I have inside the tank is live aquarium sand, and salt water at the proper levels.
I put the mesh bag of chemi-pure in the compartment within my wet/dry filter, that contains the return pump back into the tank. The chemi-pure bag got partially sucked into the intake of the pump, nothing ripped open, but unfortunately the water now shows particles and is cloudy, which is clearly from the chemi-pure bag getting partially sucked against the intake of the reutrn pump.
I changed the prefilter media pad, and they are dirty with carbon spots. There are also small particles floating around a cloudy tank which I know is what had been squeezed out from the chemi-pure bag.
If I keep changing the pads once a day, within a few days,
a) will the water get clear again
b)is there any danger to the concentration of the water, even if the filtration clears the tank, are dangerous chemicals left behind.
c) will the chemi-pure debris floating around my tank, destroy the bacteria that my tank requires that the live aquarium sand provides.
Please advise if I should do a full/partial water change, or change pads and see for 2/3 days what happens, etc ?
I am starting up my 52G saltwater aquarium, and right now, all I have inside the tank is live aquarium sand, and salt water at the proper levels.
I put the mesh bag of chemi-pure in the compartment within my wet/dry filter, that contains the return pump back into the tank. The chemi-pure bag got partially sucked into the intake of the pump, nothing ripped open, but unfortunately the water now shows particles and is cloudy, which is clearly from the chemi-pure bag getting partially sucked against the intake of the reutrn pump.
I changed the prefilter media pad, and they are dirty with carbon spots. There are also small particles floating around a cloudy tank which I know is what had been squeezed out from the chemi-pure bag.
If I keep changing the pads once a day, within a few days,
a) will the water get clear again
b)is there any danger to the concentration of the water, even if the filtration clears the tank, are dangerous chemicals left behind.
c) will the chemi-pure debris floating around my tank, destroy the bacteria that my tank requires that the live aquarium sand provides.
Please advise if I should do a full/partial water change, or change pads and see for 2/3 days what happens, etc ?