dish soap in the aquarium

speedstar

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Wondering how-to handle this, my little girl was trying to help clean up with me and added some dish soap to my aquarium. Anyone have any experience. This is on a 180g system I did a 50g water change all the RO I had ready and have started to run heavy carbon. Any ideas what to expect?
 
You need to do a couple more large water changes and run more carbon. Your skimmer will go crazy but just let it go and let it suck out as much soap as it can.
 
I would post this over in the Reef Chemistry Forum. I accidently got a commercial posion overspray into one of my plastic Brute water change garbage can and Boomer gave me an easy 24 hour process to make it safe again.
 
As many water changes as you can, kids love to help don't they? I would love to see your skimmer making, er...... bubbles.
If you have a hood on your tank and lots of flow, watch out, you may get huge bubbles on top and into your lights.
 
Dish soap is a surfactant---removes oils. Not too much trouble in that department, except as it finds its way into sponge pores and coral pores, but some soaps are antimicrobial, a problem for the sandbed and rock. If it's of any comfort, dish soap is purer than laundry soap. When you're doing wild bird rescue or recovering fine needlework from fire damage, it is the preferred soap, because it will not bleach and is lower in phosphate. Much commercial soap is through the roof in phosphates---a problem in the tank, for algae growth.

If you have no ro/di head for your local supermarket, walmart, etc, that's got one of those kiosks. Let child go with you, to appreciate how much fuss this is.

Change water, change, and change, skim wet, and I'd run some phosgard, just on general principles, along with carbon.
 
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