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Wish such big fish in a 29G tank, I’d continue to use the zeolite. Normally, zeolite shouldn’t be used unless it’s an emergency… and in your situation, it is. If you removed it, you would have extreme ammonia issues in a very short period of time.
Did you save the instructions for recharging the zeolite? At a certain point, it will become “clogged” up with ammonia and then it has to be recharged and reused. If you have two packets of it, you can alternate them with a fresh packet while you recharge the used one. If you don’t have two packets, then you’ll have to recharge it and keep an eye on the tank’s ammonia level while it is recharging. If you don’t have the instructions, you can probably find them online at the Hagen AquaClear site or I could give you the instructions I have for a different brand “Nitra-Zorb” that I bought many years ago and have used a few times… mainly during Hurricane Katrina when I had no power for 14 days.
I’ve never heard a problem with metal containers… as long as they are safe for potable water. What kind of metal container is it? A pot? Stainless steel would certainly be OK. There are some issues with teflon where small pieces of it come off when cooking so if you have a teflon pot that has a degraded coating, I probably wouldn’t use it for the fish. It’s probably still OK for cooking… although some might argue against it.
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