Anyone ever dump a glass of milk in your tank?

[GaryP]

Try adding some chocolate syrup?

[wkopplin]

A cookie too!

[GaryP]

Your protein skimmer should take out most of the bad stuff. pH shouldn't be a big problem. You can try running some carbon. The bugs will like the sugars.

[GaryP]

Its probably pretty similar to some of the "Coral accel" type products. If nothing else you boosted the calcium by a little bit. I'm guessing your skimmer will go crazy for a while because of the fats.

[captexas]

LMAO, um . . . maybe Alex? :w00t Was it Vitamin D or reduced fat milk? lol, just playing!

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the milk would affect your PH. I wouldn't imagine there would be anything harmful in it. I would just do a water change or two to dilute it.

[wkopplin]

Wouldn't that be great if Josh just stumbled on to the next great coral food?

[captexas]

Special blend of Elsie's Caclium Booster! lol

[GaryP]

The skimmer was reacting to the fats in the milk. Its like soap in a skimmer.

[BIGBIRD123]

You know why it had the BIG bubbles? Don't you remember when you were a kid at breakfast and your brother or sister made you laugh when eating cereal? You blew big bubbles of milk out your nose.....your first "skimmate" . LOL!

[wkopplin]

I accidentally put some of my cichlid food into my tank once, it is very fatty and my skimmer did the same thing.

[NaCl_H2O]

ROFLMAO - You gotta give us more details of how this happened!

Would running Carbon maybe help?

BTW - you should do a Google search on "Maintaining Aquarium Calcium Levels" ... I think you may have read something wrong ;)

[Tim Marvin]

I used to dose apple juice now and then. There is also an ich remedy with apple juice. The sugars drive xenia nuts. Although I wouldn't recommend doseing cups a couple teaspoons can be entertaining. I don't think milk will pose a problem, and I doubt if carbon will help much. I would just do a normal water change of about 15%-20% and not worry at this point.
My daughter also dosed a container of Flintstone vitamins to a 12 gallon nano once and after the water change to clear the orange water everything did fine.

[GaryP]

I was thinking of the carbon taking out the proteins and fats in the milk. It sounds like the skimmer has already handled the fats.

[Tim Marvin]

hmmmm, yes, I was assuming the skimmer already took care of that.

[dan]

How did you have a glass of milk on the tank? on top of the hood?

[::pete::]

The milk was sitting on top of the canopy and the whole front of the canopy flips up and back, so I didn't notice the cup flipping over, and the slots I cut to ventilate the heat from the halides provided a nice little gateway for the milk to drain through. :o

Hows the canopy?!?! ;) :lol

[captexas]

I'm surprised it was Josh and not one of the boys trying to make a big bowl of cereal! lol

[NaCl_H2O]

"Man electricuted while dosing reef tank with milk"

How are the halides :o , to heck with the canopy ;)

[NaCl_H2O]

but it turns out my future planning was actually good for something. :lol

Yea right, I know blind a.. luck when I see it ;)

[alexwolf]

LMAO, um . . . maybe Alex? :w00t Was it Vitamin D or reduced fat milk? lol, just playing!

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the milk would affect your PH. I wouldn't imagine there would be anything harmful in it. I would just do a water change or two to dilute it.

HAHA i have done some dumb things, but not the milk thing yet :)

[MikeDeL]

yet :) LOL

[captexas]

LOL, sorry Alex, wasn't meant as a dumb thing, just one of those crazy things that have happened, right up there with the tang eating super glue. :)

[rocketeer]

Hey, even Eric Borneman does stuff like that. It reminds me of this great monolythic sentence.


Therefore, the relative proportions of each organic food source may not be critical for these animals. Some zoanthids may not be observed to feed at all, while others are capable of ingesting rather large pieces of food. One small colony of very large Palythoa individuals was observed swallowing an entire bay scallop. Of course, this is not a normal food item for a zoanthid, but when one foolishly attempts to balance a small plate of "reef foods" on the top edges of the corner of an aquarium, accidents may (and do) happen...thus, let this be one of those lessons....

when faced with the a choice between the distinct possibility of a disaster or "oops" caused by the inane and self deceptive behavior of the aquarist regarding the statistical probability of a circus performer-like balancing act, or the likelihood of forces of the physical world actually taking precedence over one's own hopes to the contrary that such natural laws can be "willed" into not happening, it is best to force oneself to remember the outcome of most previous such happenstances and opt for the method of actually using sane judgment and working in consort with the laws of the universe when attempting any such actions.

Jack

[MikeDeL]

Therefore, the relative proportions of each organic food source may not be critical for these animals. Some zoanthids may not be observed to feed at all, while others are capable of ingesting rather large pieces of food. One small colony of very large Palythoa individuals was observed swallowing an entire bay scallop. Of course, this is not a normal food item for a zoanthid, but when one foolishly attempts to balance a small plate of "reef foods" on the top edges of the corner of an aquarium, accidents may (and do) happen...thus, let this be one of those lessons....

when faced with the a choice between the distinct possibility of a disaster or "oops" caused by the inane and self deceptive behavior of the aquarist regarding the statistical probability of a circus performer-like balancing act, or the likelihood of forces of the physical world actually taking precedence over one's own hopes to the contrary that such natural laws can be "willed" into not happening, it is best to force oneself to remember the outcome of most previous such happenstances and opt for the method of actually using sane judgment and working in consort with the laws of the universe when attempting any such actions.

:blink ..... Was that all in one breathe????? That was kinda hard to follow. LOL

[Ram_Puppy]

Hmmm... first there was dosing Vodka, now we have Joshua dosing milk... :)

[GaryP]

It's probably not too much different. Anybody know if skim milk is a good carbon source? :P

Yeppers it should be. All the sugar (lactose) in there should do the trick.

I remember something I read on the GARF website about people using urine as a nitrogen source to help cycle their tanks. I guess its a lot easier than going to HEB and throwing in table shrimp. A heck of a lot easier than trying to get damsels out of the tank after its through cycling. I'd need a taller ladder though.