Please help

[slukach]

Hey guys,

I was doing my first water change tonight to get ready for my cleaning crew that is coming on tuesday. Anyway, I was adding the purigen and changing the filter floss and such when I added chemi-clean to the first chamber instead of chemi-pure. Turns out I ordered the wrong stuff.

The chemi-clean was a white powder and, very quickly, a massive "sand storm-like" cloud was in my tank. i called Dr. Foster and Smith and talked to a techie there. He said the cloud was normal and that the chemi-clean wouldn't harm anything.

Right now there is only live rock in the tank with diatom bloom all over them. I was just wondering if anyone has heard of or used chemi-clean before and what they think will happen in the tank. Will it ruin the bloom? Can I still add the cleaner crew on tuesday? Does the stuff dissolve or get caught in the filter floss? When will the cloud disappear?

I was just freaking out and the guy at Dr. F&S put me at ease a bit, but I wanted to hear from a few people on the forum.

If this helps, this is the stuff I used instead of the chemi-pure:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produ...&pc=1&N=0&Nty=1

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Illuminati]

Hi Steve,

I feel bad about you getting the wrong product, should have made myself clear when saying get chemi-pure.

I did some searches on RC about chemi-clean. Basically people use it to treat cyanobacteria (Red Slime Algae).

Since you have no red slime algae and the tank is not stocked it shouldn't hurt anything. Some threads mentioned it drops oxygen levels so pop the feeding tray open and aim the output nozzle towards the surface, not that it splashes but so you get a good current along the surface.

It looks like the stuff attatches to cyano and breaks it down but since you don't have any cyano I doubt it will even do anything. Shouldn't hurt your diatom bloom.

I'd do a water change before adding the crew, put the purigen in on Monday night, and do another water change at the same time next week (and every week from then on).


Here is some advice from this thread :

"You will need to take all carbon out of your filters and turn off your skimmer and dose the tank. It comes with a little spoon and you add one spoonfull per 10g. Let it in for 24 hours. After that chage about 20% of your water and return to normal filtration."

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=974202&highlight=chemiclean



And other threads:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=980939&highlight=chemiclean

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=967510&highlight=chemiclean


Good Luck

 

[slukach]

Thanks man. Like I said, the guy at Dr. F&S did put me at ease, but I wanted to get some input from anyone on here actually familiar with the stuff.

And its not your fault I got the wrong product. That was all me. I was super excited when I was ordering stuff that I made the mistake between chemi-clean and chemi-pure. I typed it into the search box and it came right up. I had no idea that there were 2 products so closely named.

But I do feel like its gonna be fine. I am headed out to the LFS tomorrow to get some salt water and do a 50-60% water change, just to be on the safe side.

You know, when I opened the container, I thought to myself, maybe I'll hold off on it. It looks kind of odd and it goes right into the water. But I put it in anyway. I probably should have went with my first instinct.

Thanks for the links. They put me at ease as well.