Did I nuke my tank? Phosban Cloud of Death?

by **thomasvision** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:34 pm

Sigh.... So I just installed a new Phosban reactor to our new 150 Gallon tank yesterday evening. As the directions stated I gently rinsed the media. However in hindsight I should have ran it into a bucket until it cleared. After installation of the phos reactor I checked it and the media was not rapidly tumbling so I thought we were fine. An hour later our tank looked like.. Well our daughter said it best a BIG ARNOLD PALMER!!!

We just started the tank so we have no fish in it yet but we have about 7 Coral frags (SPS) and a carpet anemone and a bubble tip anemone. So do any of you think everything is going to die now. I would try to take the rocks out with the anemones on them and place them in our 30 g frag tank but I can't see anything in the tank.

I have posted pics below of our 150 gallon Ice Tea tank and its Tea Bag filtration system. Please try not to laugh to hard at our expense :-)

by **mcfaddy212000** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:19 pm

Yikes

by **mcfaddy212000** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:28 pm

I don't know if it will or not kill your frags but I would be trying to get them out of there for sure. From what I know about phosban is only about the one I used when I had salt water ( phosban 150) and in the manual it said to rinse it then put it in and then after assembly run it in a sink till it turns clear.

by **thomasvision** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:02 am

hi Guys,

Thanks for the responses. I also started this thread on ReefCentral at the same time. Got a lot of responses there with really good advice!. The pic below shows what I did to fix my situation. One of the commenters on Reef Central suggested that I use a canister filter on the front of my tank and it is working like a charm! This pic was taking about 8 hours ago so the tank is even much clearer now.

by **thomasvision** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:22 pm

Just wanted to send an update showing the tank completely clear!!! SUCCESS!!!

by **mcfaddy212000** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:48 pm

Is everything alive?

by **rachelx3** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:29 am

omg! i laughed a little but i hope it all worked out for ya!!

Did I nuke my tank? Phosban Cloud of Death?

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