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  1. I haven't been on here in a while. After having my tank running for about a year, I'm tearing it down and going back to freshwater. I've sold off my live rock, fish and coral and now have a whole bunch of live sand to pull out. Any recommendations on how to go about that? I think I've got a fair amount of bristleworms and other bugs in there so I'm not sure if there's a good way to kill it off before just scooping it all out. Any suggestions on making this easier?
  2. There was a tiny bit of aiptasia but it died with the tank, haven't seen a trace of it since then. The concern is that I don't really know what killed the tank. The theory I'm running with is that either the Instant Ocean supplement or the Seachem Clarity did it, or a contaminant in the tap water. It wasn't mechanical failure, I hadn't added any life forms for a couple weeks prior to the "incident". All I did the night before was algae scrub and top up the water with water I had in a bucket (with a heater and powerhead) that I had already treated with Prime (a bit of an extra dose due to the crazy high ammonia at the time). Woke up next morning to Tank O' Death.
  3. Hi Guys, Don't know if any of you will remember but I'm the one whose tank just up and croaked on me a few months back. This is an update and a question. The vast majority of my live rock has been in buckets of water with powerheads keeping it circulating. The main tank is now empty and cleaned, took all the live sand out and have new stuff ready and waiting. I'm getting conflicting advise on what to do with the live rock. Some people are saying that I should allow it to completely dry out, some people are saying I shouldn't use it at all, some people saying it'll be fine. I've got my iso tank running and managed to save some of the coral. I also added a bit of my live rock to the iso tank quite a while ago and the tank appears to be healthy so I'm thinking that it may be all ok. My idea is to get it set up with the live rock but no sand or anything yet and wait and see what happens? I started getting worm activity and feather dusters on my live rock in the iso tank so obviously there were some survivors from the Reef -ocalypse.
  4. i have a small skimmer on there, it's one intended for a 30 gal nano cube but I'm not really sure how well it's working. The filter outlet has two adjustable "jets", I have one pointed down toward the closest wall and the other is toward the surface. I also have a small powerhead that is on the other side of the tank. I don't think there are any dead spots, it's a small column style tank so I think there's good flow everywhere. If the pH was dropping at night and affecting the tank would it still be doing that without anything alive in there? Also, any advice about my live rock. Is it basically dead rock now you think? I'm also getting cyano bacteria in both tanks and haven't seen that until now. edit: actually the more I read the more it looks like very darkly coloured diatoms. It's not as bright as the pictures for cyano bacteria.
  5. Really? Why? Also, would it matter now? There's nothing living in there right now. Water is stabilized it appears but even the coraline algae on the live rock looks lack luster so I think my "live" rock is dead rock. Also I'm suddenly plagued by cyano bacteria in both the main tank and the quarantine with the somewhat living coral in it.
  6. The thing that really really scares me, what if I get this all fixed, everything thriving again and this happens again. Has this happened to anyone else?
  7. That's exactly what I was planning on doing. It's still hooped, very milky but no ammonia, no nitrites. Smells a bit...off today. Got the ten gal set up just bringing up the salinity so I can stick some of the coral that is still trying to survive in it. Worth a shot anyway. The guys at aquarium illusions are stumped, the fish tech (helps me fix my system at work) came in today and I bounced ideas off him and he didn't really know what to tell me either. We're thinking heavy metals, but don't know if it was the supplement or something else. He suggested that I never use tap water ever, which is do-able since my tank is small, just a pain in the butt. Aquarium Illusions said that my sand and liverock will be fine to use once all this is over, just to give it some time. I did another water change tonight since it smelled a bit odd when I got home, used RO water to refill. Aquarium Illusions sold me a pad that absorbs heavy metals and other impurities to stick in my filter so I'm hoping it starts to clear a bit soon. What should I add when it eventually does get better? I originally cycled it with mollies that I converted over. Probably should do that again?
  8. When Aquarium Illusions tested it last night they got the same as my test that I did earlier yesterday afternoon. Zero ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, everything else normal. I picked up a copper test but haven't done it yet. Meanwhile, the tank is like milk and now all my mushroom coral has completely disintegrated and most of the other coral look pissed off. I picked up some foam that's supposed to clear heavy metals etc so we'll see what happens over the next few days I guess. The good news is they don't think I'll have to start all from scratch with new sand or live rock.
  9. Well, the guys at aquarium central are as confused as I am. Water testing spot on perfect now, but everything is still coming out of the sand and rock work to die. I guess we'll see how it goes and hope or some survivors. :boom:
  10. Can they tell anything from the substrate? I'm not trudging the 35 gallon down there no, just a sample. :P Trying to get the ten gallon set up as quickly as possible to move some of the rock and coral out.
  11. See and now things are getting really weird. It's been maybe 6 hours since my last change. Water is milky, most of the coral excluding one hammer coral and one of my flower pots all are either completely closed or are melting in the case of my mushrooms. Did a water test: ammonia- 0 nitrite-0 nitrate-0 pH- 7.8 WHAT THE F*CK. I'm going to take it in to Aquarium Illusions tonight and have them test it. Maybe my kit is hooped? I use the Hagen master kit, it's relatively new (less than a year old). I also have strips for quick checks (I know they are wickedly inaccurate, especially for saltwater) but they're testing ammonia at 1.5, nitrites as 1, pH as 8.2. I am so freaking confused.
  12. I don't have a big enough tank to put the liverock in I don't think but I can try to fit some of it. Right now it's trying to get the RO water warm, it's like, 60F right now
  13. And the wipe out continues. Corals melting, all the worms coming out of the sand and live rock., snails dying. Picked up some RO water but it's super cold so I'm warming it up and it's taking forever. Looks like after 5 months and 19 days, my tank is dying.
  14. So I'm mixing a bunch of new saltwater for the water changes and decided to test it. Sure enough, the ammonia is up in the tap water still/again. Looks like I'll be going through a butt load of Prime. Has anyone here used Seachem AmGuard? The stuff I used that we think is the culprit is Instant Ocean's Reef Accelerator. Edit- Feb 1- Day two of the massacre So the new saltwater I've been mixing STILL has ammonia in it. I used quite a lot of Prime and it's still crapola.
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