50 Gallon Tank Massive dosing mistake! What to do?

[roachface]

I have made the mistake of the century. I won't go into detail just yet about how and why I screwed up THIS bad, but I put in 10 scoops of kanaplex, 5 scoops of metroplex, and maybe 1-2 scoops of focus. I mixed it all in my goldfishes dry food (just a few pinches of food, maybe 4-5???), freezed it and fed a few chunks of it. Now one of my fish has been gasping at the surface for a while now and I have no idea what to do. I spent so much money on them. I should note that my fish only ate several chunks I took off from the frozen nugget of food.

 

[GpixL]

Well we would need more information on how and why you screwed this up to help : ). Hope all ends well anyways.

 

[roachface]

Well we would need more information on how and why you screwed this up to help : ). Hope all ends well anyways.

I completely read the instructions wrong. I have a 50 gal tank and was dosing the food as if I was dosing the tank.

 

[GpixL]

Do your fish have fungal or bacteria infections?

 

[roachface]

Do your fish have fungal or bacteria infections?

My oranda that ate most of the food I put in the tank seems to have a parasitic infection. She swam erratically off and on when I got her. I dosed prazi and it stopped within a few days, and was fine for several weeks until today. She also sometimes has white stuff coming out of her wen but it disappears.

my female ranchu, she too sometimes has white stuff hanging out of her when. I gave her some the same medicated food as a preventative measure.

my new boy ranchu who’s in quarantine, I believe he has a bacterial infection— red pest to be exact. He has dark red streaks on his tail fin. I gave him some of the food but he didn’t eat any of it, probably because he just got here today and is stressed. I removed the food.

 

[Lucy]

I completely read the instructions wrong. I have a 50 gal tank and was dosing the food as if I was dosing the tank.

It would probably be a good idea to d a good water change and gravel vac to get any of the over medicated food out.
Also if you don't have it in, add carbon to your filter to help filter out the meds.

Not much you can do about the fish who already ate it.

 

[Zach72202]

The solution to pollution is dilution!

Do a waterchange basically. Its meds down the drain, but its better than dead fish.

I'd do a 50% w/c and see what happens and just play it by ear

 

[GpixL]

My oranda that ate most of the food I put in the tank seems to have a parasitic infection. She swam erratically off and on when I got her. I dosed prazi and it stopped within a few days, and was fine for several weeks until today. She also sometimes has white stuff coming out of her wen but it disappears.

my female ranchu, she too sometimes has white stuff hanging out of her when. I gave her some the same medicated food as a preventative measure.

my new boy ranchu who’s in quarantine, I believe he has a bacterial infection— red pest to be exact. He has dark red streaks on his tail fin. I gave him some of the food but he didn’t eat any of it, probably because he just got here today and is stressed. I removed the food.

Yeah I didnt know if the medication was nesesarry. So It seams like they all should not be overdosed. So I would vaccume and do a watch change to get out the food.

 

[roachface]

It would probably be a good idea to d a good water change and gravel vac to get any of the over medicated food out.
Also if you don't have it in, add carbon to your filter to help filter out the meds.

Not much you can do about the fish who already ate it.

It’s a bare bottom tank, no food was left behind I double checked. Carbon is also in there. Water change still necessary if there’s no food left behind? Both of my fish in the 50 gal immediately decimated all of it.

 

[Lucy]

I would since we can't be sure how much dissolved. in the water

 

[GpixL]

It’s a bare bottom tank, no food was left behind I double checked. Carbon is also in there. Water change still necessary if there’s no food left behind? Both of my fish in the 50 gal immediately decimated all of it.

Like I would just to get some of the chemicals out. But I guess not fully necessary because u got carbon and no food in the tank. Just as a precaution I would.

 

[roachface]

Like I would just to get some of the chemicals out. But I guess not fully necessary because u got carbon and no food in the tank. Just as a precaution I would.

Ok thanks and thanks to you too Lucy. I’ll do that tonight and I will update you guys in the morning or sometime whenever tomorrow.
If anyone else has any advice, please please share!

 

[AP1]

The only thing I can think of would be to feed a fish laxative in the hopes of getting whatever is not digested of the medicine out of the fish faster. But no idea if that idea would actually work, and it is definitely not based in a good understanding of how fish digestion works on my part; it is also very possible this could have an adverse effect or accomplish nothing.
Edit: if even thinking about trying my halfbaked idea, be sure to do some searching/checking-- here is a good place to start: The Myth Behind Feeding Peas - Aquarium Article

 

[GpixL]

Ok thanks and thanks to you too Lucy. I’ll do that tonight and I will update you guys in the morning or sometime whenever tomorrow.
If anyone else has any advice, please please share!

Yeah hope all works out!

The only thing I can think of would be to feed a laxative in the hopes of getting whatever is not digested of the medicine out of the fish faster. But no idea if that idea would actually work, and it is definitely not based in a good understanding of how fish digestion works on my part; it is also very possible this could have an adverse effect or accomplish nothing.
Edit: if even thinking about trying my halfbaked idea, be sure to do some searching/checking-- here is a good place to start: The Myth Behind Feeding Peas - Aquarium Article

Yeah I think in the description of the medicine it says it sinks into the fish quickly so I would assume it would not work but maybe more research would prove me wrong.

 

[roachface]

Did a 50-60% wc lastnight, second pic is from this morning. My oranda isn’t gasping anymore and I’ve bumped up the air bubbler a bit. I re-made their medicated food with the APPROPRIATE dosages and fed them some this morning. Things seem to be okay for now. Will update again if anything bad happens.

 

[GpixL]

Glad to hear it!