help!! filter "chewed up carbon and spewed it all over tank

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• Mar 22, 2004

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hi, i need urdgent advice/help. my filter chewed up a bunch of activated carbon when i was gone and spread it all over the tank. the fish, pl*cos L-91, appear inactive will the powdered carbon( really fine powder) hurt them?

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• Mar 22, 2004

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Nope. Carbon is perfectly safe. In fact they use it on humands during the whole stomch pumping thing. It will eventually settle out or get trapped in the filter.

 

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• Mar 22, 2004

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thanks,

so the powder wont tear up their gills or suffocate them? thats my main worry since its such a fine "sticky" powder

 

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Im not sure if it could get stuck in their gills but my guess is no as other substances dont seem to. However I would do a big water change with a gravel vacuum and go after the bits of carbon.

 

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• Mar 22, 2004

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the problem is this a q-tank on the floor and while a turkey baster works good for sucking up large waste chunks i think it would just unsettle the powder and make it cloud up the water again. i'll probably end up tearing the whole tank down and trowing out the sponge filters (only bio filtraton) since they sucked a bunch of it up if the powdered carbon will hurt their gills.