I'm at the LFS where I find some "blue bee shrimp". Ok, looks kind of like blue tigers but what the heck, they're neat. I snag a few and head home to find one of the LED socketed lamps decided to let go and drop in the edge tank where I have all the shrimp. BAD. Several dead due to copper and who knows what else from the wired color slime on the LEDs.
So, out come what shrimp I can catch that aren't clearly dead and I flush them a few times in water from the cube. No other real tank to put them in so they go in there and out comes the ghost shrimp. 48 hours later it seems like most of them made it. The bee shrimp are so small I have no idea where they went so that might be wasted money but I did see one the next day and I check the filter floss when I change it. The black neons don't seem to care about shrimp in general and I suspect the cories would only eat them unintentionally. I did a full water change today and really freaked out the bamboo shrimp but otherwise everyone seems back to normal.
I threw the plants from the contaminated tank in with the cardinals since they were getting treated with copper and whatever else is in the antiparasite foods.
So, how do I decontaminate my edge tank? I'm assuming the substrate is a write off anyway, but I'd prefer not to lose the plants. How can I flush them out? Two of them are mossballs so I suspect they may have soaked up some of the copper and other chemicals.
Thoughts?
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So, out come what shrimp I can catch that aren't clearly dead and I flush them a few times in water from the cube. No other real tank to put them in so they go in there and out comes the ghost shrimp. 48 hours later it seems like most of them made it. The bee shrimp are so small I have no idea where they went so that might be wasted money but I did see one the next day and I check the filter floss when I change it. The black neons don't seem to care about shrimp in general and I suspect the cories would only eat them unintentionally. I did a full water change today and really freaked out the bamboo shrimp but otherwise everyone seems back to normal.
I threw the plants from the contaminated tank in with the cardinals since they were getting treated with copper and whatever else is in the antiparasite foods.
So, how do I decontaminate my edge tank? I'm assuming the substrate is a write off anyway, but I'd prefer not to lose the plants. How can I flush them out? Two of them are mossballs so I suspect they may have soaked up some of the copper and other chemicals.
Thoughts?
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S