Eddie Wells
07-27-2011, 10:21 PM
Hi SD Friends,
I live in central Texas, in the country and have my own water well. Like a lot of wells in Texas we have HYDROGEN SULFIDE ( Rotten egg smell) and some iron, not iron bacteria just iron. We have a sand filter and a liquid chlorine injector on the well to help take care of this problem. Well last week chlorine injector and the filter had a major malfunction at the same time, well this lets hydrogen sulfide enter the hot water heater, along with excess amounts of iron. I usually use a mixture of cold and hot water when I fill my tank that I let sit and use an airstone for the following days water change. Has worked great till yesterday. Not thinking I put my Safe in the aquarium and started pumping water back into the aquarium like every day. Well noticed holding tank water was pretty dark. Hadn't even finished filling the aquarium when the fish were starving for air. Added 2 more airstones and filled my holding tank with cold water and waited for it to heat
up a bit. About 45 minutes later drained tank, added Safe (2 times normal dose) and filled aquarium back up. Left the extra air in and was sure all my new Red Turks would be dead this morning. To my suprise they were a little better and by this afternoon after
work they look really good and even have eaten twice. I dodged a big one I think. So if your on a well that has iron and hydrogen sulfide in the water, do not use water from your hot water heater if you have a well malfunction. Use cold
water ( in your holding tank) after you have corrected the well problem, and use the heater to raise the temperature to match your aquarium water. Hope this helps someone to avoid a disaster like I almost had.
Eddie Wells
I live in central Texas, in the country and have my own water well. Like a lot of wells in Texas we have HYDROGEN SULFIDE ( Rotten egg smell) and some iron, not iron bacteria just iron. We have a sand filter and a liquid chlorine injector on the well to help take care of this problem. Well last week chlorine injector and the filter had a major malfunction at the same time, well this lets hydrogen sulfide enter the hot water heater, along with excess amounts of iron. I usually use a mixture of cold and hot water when I fill my tank that I let sit and use an airstone for the following days water change. Has worked great till yesterday. Not thinking I put my Safe in the aquarium and started pumping water back into the aquarium like every day. Well noticed holding tank water was pretty dark. Hadn't even finished filling the aquarium when the fish were starving for air. Added 2 more airstones and filled my holding tank with cold water and waited for it to heat
up a bit. About 45 minutes later drained tank, added Safe (2 times normal dose) and filled aquarium back up. Left the extra air in and was sure all my new Red Turks would be dead this morning. To my suprise they were a little better and by this afternoon after
work they look really good and even have eaten twice. I dodged a big one I think. So if your on a well that has iron and hydrogen sulfide in the water, do not use water from your hot water heater if you have a well malfunction. Use cold
water ( in your holding tank) after you have corrected the well problem, and use the heater to raise the temperature to match your aquarium water. Hope this helps someone to avoid a disaster like I almost had.
Eddie Wells