Oops... have I made a bad error?

[nuckfluckchuckbuck]

Hi everyone,

I have a touch of whitespot in one of my tanks and added some treatment. I must have missed part of the directions on the bottle though that told me to remove Carbon and Zeolite sponges from the filter before treatment and I left all the sponges in my filter.

I've taken out the black carbon one now, but I have no idea whether any of the others are Zeolite... By not removing my carbon one before treatment, will I have caused any damage to my fish? I really hope not

The tank in question is a Juwel tank with a standard fitted filter. I can't find my tank instructions so don't know which of my sponges are Zeolite, if any at all....

Can anyone help?

 

[WILDER]

If it is a juwel it will be the big black carbon sponge you remove from the tank, throw it away it will be no good now, it may have removed the med how long is it from when you added the med.

 

[BettaMomma]

You haven't really done anything that will damage the fish - but as Wilder said, you might have taken the good bacterias out of the filter.

 

[nuckfluckchuckbuck]

Oh dear. So I need to buy a whole new Carbon pad then from my LFS? Is the existing one totally useless now?

I added the treatment yesterday. How long should I wait before adding more treatment?

I'm keeping the temperature a little higher at 29 degrees C too, as I've heard that helps. My two poor clown loach are covered in quite a few spots so I hope this works

Thanks for your help so far everyone

 

[WILDER]

The black carbon sponge is unless now as it has pulled meds out, and once the sponge is out of the water it's no good, don't want you to add it later to the tank and it leeches the chemicals back into the tank, you no need to use black carbon all the time anyway it only used for removing meds from the tank, it's handy to always have one in just in case, but apart from that i wouldn't use them all the time, do a 30% water change and redose the med back, good luck.