Hellpp!! my fish might die?

Question

will perfume kill fish? my little idiot brother droped like 3 drops of perfume in to our 2 gallon aquarium. do i change out all the water,half or all of it?

or is it to late? i have it out of the water in a little container with trated water and all but what do i do with the aquarium water?

and if i take it all out will the cycling start over?

Answer 1

100% water change.

It wont affect the cycle of the tank, the bacteria dont live in the water, they live in the filter and on the gravel. Changing the water wont affect them.

Ian

Answer 2

Why don't you just take your fish out, clean the bowl and change the water??

Answer 3

They're in critical need of new water.  If they're goldfish or danios or mollies or the like they may live with just new water like spring or purified with NO additives.  If they're tropical, keep your fingers crossed, they're less hardy.  Good Luck!!

Answer 4

clean out 1/2 the water, doing a full clean out might stress the fish and they could die anyway. once you done put some de-stress or medication into the tank to help the fish cope.

good luck

Answer 5

i dono?

but if he dies.........you can eat it.

Answer 6

just change the water

Answer 7

if it dies you can eat it for dinner or something. its really good if you put garlic and butter on it

Answer 8

I don't know. Try changing the some of the water.

Answer 9

aww thats sad if ur fish died .....  

Answer 10

Change ALL of the water! Well, that might be to stress full to do all at once, but if you change 50% and then refill it up and change another 50%, so you have changed all the water, then your fish should be fine!

Answer 11

I think you should change the water, make sure all the ph levels etc are right and then put it back. Hopefully your fish will be fine ;o)

Answer 12

I suppose it is whats in the perfume but unless someone doesent know for sure I would just change the water. I don't think it should be to much of  aproblem though but it might interfere with the natural eco blah blah blah of the tank

Answer 13

It might kill your fish but it sounds like you probably got them out of there on time.  In a little aquarium like that I would just dump out all of the water and rinse the tank with super hot water. Don't use soaps or anything.  Fill it back up and put the water treatment in there and make sure it gets back up to the temp you need it to be before you put your fish back in.  Maybe put an air pump in the container your fish are in now to make sure they can breath OK until you get your tank up to temp.  They might get a little stressed but it is better than having them die from perfume!  Your lil bro isn't an idiot, he just made a mistake which is human.  Don't get too mad at him! =)