Hello,
I've had the tank tragedy of somehow getting soap residue in my tank (dishwashing liquid residue on my hands or putting my water container on a countertop that had soap on it or something I wasn't aware of). I have no idea how to get it all out of my 8 year old 30g planted tank.
It's enough that I discovered it when I realized the little bubbles surrounding emergent plants were not from my betta and when adding a pump, lasting large bubbles started to form on the surface, and of course, my fish became very ill very fast, struggling to breathe.
So far I've tried removing water just from the surface where I see bubbles accumulating, and dropping paper towels over it and removing, but I imagine soap disperses in the water column. I'm getting a 10g to put them in today, but they already look very far gone. I also should be able to get activated charcoal by today or tomorrow (I'm in a rural area and didn't have any on hand)
My water is acidic and soft, about pH 6. I wonder if I remove perhaps half or a third of the water and slowly replaced it with hard water, perhaps the Ca++ and Mg++ might make a precipitate out of the soap?
Any other ideas? I'm afraid my poor fish won't make it.
Thank you for any help or suggestions.
Javalee
I've had the tank tragedy of somehow getting soap residue in my tank (dishwashing liquid residue on my hands or putting my water container on a countertop that had soap on it or something I wasn't aware of). I have no idea how to get it all out of my 8 year old 30g planted tank.
It's enough that I discovered it when I realized the little bubbles surrounding emergent plants were not from my betta and when adding a pump, lasting large bubbles started to form on the surface, and of course, my fish became very ill very fast, struggling to breathe.
So far I've tried removing water just from the surface where I see bubbles accumulating, and dropping paper towels over it and removing, but I imagine soap disperses in the water column. I'm getting a 10g to put them in today, but they already look very far gone. I also should be able to get activated charcoal by today or tomorrow (I'm in a rural area and didn't have any on hand)
My water is acidic and soft, about pH 6. I wonder if I remove perhaps half or a third of the water and slowly replaced it with hard water, perhaps the Ca++ and Mg++ might make a precipitate out of the soap?
Any other ideas? I'm afraid my poor fish won't make it.
Thank you for any help or suggestions.
Javalee