Chemiclean and fish (1 Viewer)

[paraletho]

Has anyone ever had issues with Mandarins and Boyd’s Chemiclean (Red Slime Remover). Treatment worked but as usual it is a week long process of water changes trying to lower the concentration in the tank so the skimmer will stop overflowing. Yesterday the Green Mandarin is missing. Two hours and no sign. Should I be worried? Explosion of green micro algae on the glass and hair algae on the rocks. Last time about six months agoq a medium Yellow Tang disappeared. Thought it was just a coincidence. I might be rethinking that.

 

[reeftopia]

used it many times with no problems

 

[TX_Punisher]

Use the skimmer overflow as a means to remove the chemical. Disconnect your topoff and run your skimmer drain line (if your skimmer has one) to a 5g bucket. In my 200g, just two weeks ago, I used this technique after the 48hr period was complete. After 2 hrs of skimming, filling the collection cup, then down the drain tube to a bucket, I had only 2g of skimmate and foamy saltwater. Collection cup top was put back on, added 2g of fresh sw, reconnected topoff system power and I was done. The skimmer was back to normal after that.

but to answer your question, I have had no issues with chemiclean and fish.

 

[Stickboy97]

I used chemi in a biocube a year ago & within a week all 3 fish I had in the tank were dead. You have to keep up and even do extra water changes. I slacked 1 day & the fish were toast. Worked like a charm on the cyano though....

 

[TX_Punisher]

Are you sure it wasn’t low PH related? Were you measuring PH throughout The entire process?

 

[paraletho]

Did 2 65 gallon water changes and still foaming like crazy. I usually do the skimmer thing except I use a wet dry vac 15 to 20 gallons of skimate after the water changes usually does it but thats 3-4 hours. I will visit that system tomorrow hopefully he was just hiding in the rockwork.