Emegency Spillage

[ReefWreak]

Hi

Does anyone know how big of an impact of spilling 2oz of Cocacola Classic into a 120g SPS reef would have? Skimmer isn't freaking out like I imagined it would.

I'll do a 10-20g water change soon and keep parameters and occupants monitored. Anything else I should do? Anything in particular I should worry about?

Thanks

 

[Salamander]

Should be ok. Kinda like dosing sugar. A water change wouldn't hurt if you're worried.

 

[ReefWreak]

I guess the only thing to be worried about is the phosphoric acid. I wonder how it breaks down in a basic saltwater solution.

 

[rbursek]

I donot think a few oz in your size system is much to worry about.IMO

 

[Toddrtrex]

It would be a good thing to put in some fresh carbon, run your skimmer wetter and do a water change -- just to be safe.

 

[widmer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12418206#post12418206 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Toddrtrex
It would be a good thing to put in some fresh carbon, run your skimmer wetter and do a water change -- just to be safe.

I agree with the water change part, but I'm not sure if there are any chemicals in coke that carbon would absorb. The two main things it will be adding to your aquarium are a few grams of sugar and a little carbonic acid. Neither of these should be anything to worry about at all: There was that other thread around here where the guy was dosing sugar to encourage the nitrate-reducing bacteria. Meanwhile the carbonic acid is in such tiny amount that it will have zero impact on ur pH. But it's always good to have another excuse to do a water change...

 

[Toddrtrex]

You are right, there might not be anything in coke that carbon will remove, but carbon is cheap and easy to change, so figured why not.

 

[buck50bmg]

So how did it happen???

 

[buck50bmg]

Fish Thirsty?

 

[ReefWreak]

I've had a hectic day. I put my coke on the top of my hood, I went and didsomething else, then wanted to do an alkalinity test, so to get a sample i opened the front of the hood, the coke spilled, and poured into the makeshift holes I cut in my canopy that I needed to fit my luminarcs into the hood.

I wasn't worried about the sugar, corn syrup (more sugar), caffine, or water, only the phosphoric acid. I'm hoping that it just breaks down. I was worried that it would break down into a neutral, but was worried where the phosphate from the phosphoric acid went.