Oh *#%~!

[dem0nz]

hey i have a 35 liter tank with a male betta 5 endlers and 2 or 3 shrimp (i havnt seen number 3 in 2 weeks)

anyways i just carried out a 40% water change and as soon as i put all the water back in i realized i didnt declorinate first
i immediatly poured a load into the water and turned the filter back on

will my tank be ok or have i jus screwed up my filters bacteria and poisoned my shrimps

 

[humpy_the_humphead_wrasse]

logic seems to tell me that as long as you got the chlorinator into the tank as soon as possible you should be right, the filter or airstone water movement should be enough to distribute the dechlorinator throughout the tank but then again i think its just one of those touch and go things your gona have to watch over the next 24hrs i guess?.

 

[dem0nz]

well as i said my first thoughts were to do just that for exactly the same reasons you said
i also gave it a good stir with a net

grrr my filter hasnt flooded preperly (its a HOB)
brb i gotta go fix it b4 it burns out

 

[dem0nz]

grrrrrr rit really isnt my day,jus got the filter workin then it sprayed gunk into my freshly changed water,
and my betta nipped me

anyways,if anything relating to the declor comes up in the next few hours i will post,thanx

 

[humpy_the_humphead_wrasse]

lol your betta nipped you? the cherry on the ice cream sunday, which is your day by the sounds of it, im sure he was just saying i love you! LOL.

 

[2excitedkids]

From reading many threads on this forum,lots of people add water from a hoze straight in tank and then add dechlorinator to tank.They seem to have no probs so you should be fine.

 

[dem0nz]

lol it was cuz i normaly hand feed him bloodworms and that is the only time my hands are in the tank
but cuz my filter wasnt flooding properly i had 2 take i apart and rebuild it underwater
it is kinda humiliating,thats the second time he's done it and i squeal like a pig everytime lol

everything seems cool and my shrimps didnt die or anything so WOOHOO
i think i jus had an instant panic (as my title suggests)

thanx every1

 

[humpy_the_humphead_wrasse]

all good bro, im currently going through my own fiasco trying to get my ammonia down atm, currently all i can do is sit there doing water changes once a day and currently theres like 3 large air stones in my tank lol, only thing i can do to detoxify my ammonia and keep the fish from hyperventilating.

 

[Lokis_Daddy]

Yeah, they can stand chlorine for short periods of time. I've done that with some of my uncycled 2.5g betta tanks after doing a 100% water change and nothing bad came of it. Just stressed them out of a couple of hours. Sounds like your fish will be OK.

 

[Corleone]

I've had the same scare a few times - dump a bucket of water in and realize the dechlorinator isn't in the room, much less the bucket. I usually turn off the filters, put a double dose of dechlor in, and use the gravel vac to drain a bucket of water and pour it back in to "stir" the tank up. Worst I ever had was a 2 day minicycle when I realized it almost fifteen minutes later.