are my fishes going to die

[Tropjunky]

I have a Nutrafin CO2 system in my tank and i put yeast, sugar and water in there for the first time and well you know how yeast makes this froth well some\most of it whent into my tank i gust did a 40%-50% water change and replaced my active carbon and put some partical clear to help clear the yeast from my tank. do you think i'll end up with a tank full of dead fish?

 

[Tropjunky]

well thenks for egnoring me

 

[jams.alaskan]

Not staying away because I don't want to help you - I've just no experience with your situation. The water change sounds ok... is it very cloudy?

ALASKA

 

[RobbieM]

I wouldnt have thought yeast would do any harm, if youve watered it down that much it should be ok.
I would do a 10% change for the next few days, just to water it down totally.
Theres nothing harmfull in yeast, it just stinks (liquid).

 

[Tropjunky]

well thanks i feel much better now

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

With the amount of water changes you will be ok. everything that you have added to the tank was natural and not chemical.

You may have a few drunk fish though....

did you know you have just made alcohol.... it called hooch

 

[Tropjunky]

yep i distill the yeast mixture after and sometimes i brew beer and hook it up the the air lines as the fementation proces makes CO2 as well.

 

[ade]

Did the same thing myself at the weekend, very very cloudy, but everything seems fine, I didn't even do a water change as I've used my bucket for painting! So couldn't do a water change, and fish all appear fine. Took about 3 hours for the cloudiness to filter itself out, wonder if the fishies enjoyed their little drink? Tipsy tetras lol

 

[DrOizo]

The only thing that will happen is your fishies will become drunk

 

[Tropjunky]

Well i don't know about drunk but i heard that alcohol damages the gills of the fishs.

well at least i have active carbon to deal with the alcohol and crap that might be there.

 

[Sang72]

Alcohol in sufficient quantities can damage anything and is actually the waste product of yeast and other bacteia. My liver probably looks like an old aquarium filter. But......the good news is;

In a fermenting enviroment alcohol can only build up to about 12-15% by volume before it begins attacking the metabolic process of the bacteria (yeast) and stopping the reaction.

The stabilizer pack you added helps keep the reaction under control and further lowers the alcohol levels.

The nutrafin canister only holds about a pint of liquid, so if you were to dump the entire pint into a 10 gallon tank 1 pint of 15% alcohol would dissapate into 0.18% (.0018 WAC- water alcohol content) alcohol by volume.

The meaning of this boring, long winded thesis is.....your fish will be fine.

*man, I gotta get a life*

BTW, the yeast will probably be got in the filter, but if it does reproduce, toss some shrimp in. It's their natural diet.

PS you ever see a motorcycle run on moonshine? I did for about 3 min before it started spitting pieces of piston out the exhaust.