broken thermometer in tank!

[reef-madness2]

Just the outer glass, not any of the 'red stuff'...but the little black balls (weights??)...

We got as many out that we could before the sand kicked up and hid a few...


are we screwed??


what are those little balls made of and how will it affect our tank?

We have 65 gal
75 gal sump w/ protein skimmer
a variety of corals
misc shrimp, crabs, snails
a few chromis'
and of course a bunch of live rock

We had a hard time sleeping last night, I actually DID have a nightmare...!! Most of our LFs' are not open yet (sunday), so if anyone has any info, please help!!

Thanks

 

[fullkontact]

Mine did the same thing about 2 days ago, I didn't worry about it too much, I didn't take out the little 'weights', and the real dumb thing I did, I didn't take out the thermometer. Then the next day the red part broke. Now that's all in my tank. oops

 

[wrott]

I believe the liquid is just dyed alcohol (no worries) and metal beads ??? don't know what there're made of---but i would vacuum as many as possible out (along w/ sand that they are buried in). This happpened to me too---but tank was empty.

 

[levylizard]

Same thing happened to me. I took a magnet and it was able to get all the little balls from the sand bed.

 

[jrw]

The little balls are probably lead. If so I would get them out.