Help! Insecticide poisoning

[Navanod]

Guys, I'm in deep shit!
Was spraying insecticide in the hall but forgot that the fan in my room next to the shrimp tank was still on.
Apparently, some insecticide got into the tank and I started seeing the shrimps all going wild in the tank, swimming everywhere!

Immediately did a 25% WC and put activated charcoal + lotsa old sea mud powder + shrimp tonic.
Now saw afew died, some still rushing around but most are quietly sitting on the bottom.

Think by morning will see alot of RIP

Anyone got last minute remedies for such accidents?
Really must be careful...even abit of stray aerosol is enough to kill

bro why always this type of thing happen to you one sia??? zzz
do more water change add more active carbon to absorb the pesticide!
be more careful in the future!

[Navanod]

Originally Posted by berber

bro why always this type of thing happen to you one sia??? zzz
do more water change add more active carbon to absorb the pesticide!
be more careful in the future!

1st time leh bro
The last problem was unknown and slow deaths, suspected sulphur from seachem prime. After switching to Shi Zhen, deaths stopped.

Threw in all the charcoal already.

Nothing else you can do since you did water change and added active charcoal liao. Just cross your fingers and wish for good luck.

[silane]

Originally Posted by Navanod

1st time leh bro
The last problem was unknown and slow deaths, suspected sulphur from seachem prime. After switching to Shi Zhen, deaths stopped.

Threw in all the charcoal already.

how many shrimps you have?

You can try to acclaimise them to a large pail of good water with aeration, put in cool place to achive 25C or so, borrow from your friend's tank or whatever you can get.

The do LARGE water changeS to your tank, add active carbon, sea mud powder and double dose shizhen. After the water quality has improved then acclaimise the shrimp back.

Do fast, else no hope.

[Navanod]

Originally Posted by silane

how many shrimps you have?

You can try to acclaimise them to a large pail of good water with aeration, put in cool place to achive 25C or so, borrow from your friend's tank or whatever you can get.

The do LARGE water changeS to your tank, add active carbon, sea mud powder and double dose shizhen. After the water quality has improved then acclaimise the shrimp back.

Do fast, else no hope.

Thanks for the advice.
Put into pail some of the CRS already with a small hof...left many sakura and low grade CRS in the tank.
Already double dosed the shizhen when i did the 25% WC just now.

Just now I looked, most of the shrimps stopped swimming about...mostly quiet or walking around. Added some food and most of them responded and came over to eat. Even those I thought dead came back to life.

See what I can do tomorrow. Darn tired now...KO liao

Bro next time get a carton of distill water and put at home for emergency. I never believe it until my tank crash dunno what cause it. Empty my 4 bottle + 1 pail of age water. Still death but lower death rate.

Bro,

I do hv this experience just few wks ago. sad. Mind is all gone.

I guess we have to be very careful infuture not to spray any stuff near your tank area. Very expensive lesson.

Anyway hope your shrimp are fine

[Navanod]

Hi, thanks for the help and concern.
I'm happy to report that almost all the shrimps made it...maybe I was lucky and only very tiny amounts got into the tank.
Dumping alot of old sea mud also seemed to work and calmed them down quite abit during the crisis.