Tinted Water

I recently added some API brand tetracycline to my tank to get rid of some minor tail rot. It turned the water blood red and killed most of my fish. I followed the directions exactly to the letter. Educational experience.....
Anyway, can I substitute my foam filter with an activated charcoal one to help filter out the red stain? I have been doing excessive water changes but at this rate it will take forever.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
R

 

polyfilter is great for removing medications
sorry about your loss

 

Ouch!

Bio-Med Polyfilter is good option.

Sorry for loss.

 

Sorry for your losses....

 

Oh yes...forgot...

Some serious water changes due.

 

Once again, sorry for your losses, get a QT tank up and running if you can, that way you dont have to treat the whole tank and risk anything happening :-/

 

thanks for the replies. you guys are great. I'll give it a try...
R

 

re-cycle system due to microbe death

HI,
I have become very concerned about using any meds in saltwater, my favorite med is green food or spriulla with garlic added.
Most fish in saltwater are very resiliant and what dosen't kill them they usally get over, unless they were poisioned in the collection or shocked by the transit to the LPS.
Your tank has be pretty much been nuked by the tetracycline even at really low doses. it may need a period of time to recycle and your live rock may be DOA,most anerobes are extremly sensative to meds, dont fret most of my rock was not live when I bought it I just cycled it in my tank , I wonder if carbon would help remove the stain. most of it is excreted in urine in mamalls, saltwater fish have a more complex way of exporting waste thru their gills. if I remember my pharmacy lessons tetracycline is a exotoxin extraceted from a type of strep that makes many bacteria sick, not to mention everything else talk about chemotherapy.

I know in Humans it can become part of the bones due to its afinity for calcium, so it may be in the carbonate in the gravel and live rock it seem to be inert once bound.
Doug

Be sure to let everything settle before adding fish check for nitrate and other waste problems , to be sure you bio system is viable,
you may see some other problems as your cycle catches back up..
I went over board and added to much sand to a sump and pretty much killed the sump and had to wait a couple weeks for a mini re-cycle of bugs, worms and other things, learning can be painful....

 

qt, i would never introduce meds in the main tank.

 

Amen!