will this harm my fish? gas left on from stovetop!!!!!

[that_fish_Guy]

had some family over for dinner and someone must have been caught up in a conversation or something because our stove-top was running leaking gas WITHOUT the fire running! It was running full blast gas for at least a few hours. My room is in the back of the house and I had the door closed and I began to feel dizzy. We usually keep all the windows closed and hardly run the AC. I quickly went to the kitchen (as this has happened before from some of the children we have in our family messing around) I turned off the burners opened the windows and evacuated the house on my porch for a good 30 minutes.It was BAD really bad it felt like as I was near passing out. Question is will the fish be ok? any effects I should be looking for happening to the fish?? should I do a waterchange? unfortunately I couldnt turn off air pumps etc in time because i had to consider my saftey first. anything I should be watching for in my tanks or is there anything that may happen to the fish?

 

[Dee eng]

Man, that sounds horrible bro. Don't have an answer, but I'm glad to hear nothing was blown up and family is safe!

 

[Wailua Boy]

If the fish were affected you likely would of saw symptoms fairly quickly, if your fish appear well; you'll probably be ok.

 

[celebrist]

I'm glad you didn't have an explosion, wow

 

[Fat Homer]

Its quite possibly a good idea you DID NOT switch anything on / off... Coz that may hve produced a spark that could have lit up your whole place...

Guess at least its a lesson learnt to better safe than sorry, as wel as to make sure to check all gas appliances are off...

 

[justarn]

Very lucky your all ok, that's the reason we changed to an electric cooker when our son was born.

 

[Yoimbrian]

Methane (natural gas) is not soluble in water in any real concentration, and the little that did get in there would evaporate nearly instantly when the room aired out. I wouldn't worry about the fish.

I would however worry about your house for the next time this happens. If you have no good way of stopping a gas leak for hours I would highly recommend switching to an electric stove. You (or a friend / family member) could have easily died.

 

[Ihsnshaik]

Surely a decent carbon monoxide detector would've went off?

If not go get some right now!!

 

[fishnatics]

After my first incident with carbon monoxide from leaking gas furnace from next door duplex. My kids and I were in the hospital for a day. I made sure that every level has a detector after we bought our house and I make sure to check the stove every night before calling it a night. I'm glad you and your family are okay.

 

[krichardson]

If the fish were affected you likely would of saw symptoms fairly quickly, if your fish appear well; you'll probably be ok.

Canary in a coal mine type of situation;I once had a gas leak in the house that I was hardly aware of until one of my lovebirds just keeled over and died.Shortly after that my other one died and then I knew something was wrong....hope all turns out well for you and yours.