How much should I panic ?

[bob124578]

I have a 120 with lots of soft corals, a few fish and tons of other inverts -- shrimp, crabs, tunicates, pods -- and a copper wire clipping was just dropped in!

My lights were blinking and I was playing with them and left the room for a minute. A friend "did me a favor" and I walked in to find him holding his key chain over the tank clipping wires with a finger nail clipper. He adimitted one small -- 1/2 inch piece fell in. It was partially covered in coating but not all. I looked and will never find it.

So is this as big a deal as I think -- or is this copper wire in a form of copper that won't become poison for the inverts?

 

[MAreefer1]

it might effect them but im not so shure...I know that copper deffinitly is not good in a SW fish tank

 

[reefwick]

I wouldn't worry too much. I mean if a fish or invert eats it, it will probably die. As far as contaminating your water, you have a large volume and a little piece of copper. Not too big of a deal IMO.

 

[BRG]

No worry..........

bg

 

[bob124578]

thanks!

 

[wetWolger]

I would not give up so easy. Have you thought about running a magnet really close and see if you can pick it up? I doubt it will do anything, and if it does it may be over time (so just don't let up on the water changes). But that little peice of mind may be nice if you can do it with a simple magnet (hell depending on your size a magfloat or something similar may even get it).

 

[wjhuie]

I dont know if a magnet works on copper.

 

[GRREEF]

You could periodically run Cuprisorb.