CRookSkee
Member
So a couple days ago i had the dumbest idea 
, to go to Home Depot and buy a brass gate valve to help with my gurgling noise my over flow makes. So 4 days into the valve being in the return line working like it should my corals start going to sh!t all of them closing up and bleaching by this time im scratching my head to what could be wrong testing and testing some more all my levels where ok so i was soooo confused then i thought to myself hey wait a minute my gate valve is brass so it might have copper duh. I google up some info and yep everything pointed to that being the cause of my corals dying even my snails and banded shrimp looked like they where slowly dying not active as before, so bought me a poly filter and in a day turned blue so that indicates there is copper being removed a couple of my corals did survive but some did not, most of them did not 
. So i guess now i learned my lesson this is my first reef tank so i learned something new i guess the hard way. So if someone is thinking of using any kind of brass in your sump or anywhere near saltwater do not. Dont make the same mistake i did. Also do any of you reefers know how long would it take for poly filter to remove most of the copper in the tank, i know itll take some time since i had live rock and it maybe got into the rock im even thinking of putting as much poly filter as i can.
Stupid simple thing that can make everything go to sht.
I want to buy more corals since the tank looks all sad n stuff my torch and frogspawn survived but they barely open up. So do you reefers think i should wait a bit longer then buy corals ? Or get to it ? Thanks
, to go to Home Depot and buy a brass gate valve to help with my gurgling noise my over flow makes. So 4 days into the valve being in the return line working like it should my corals start going to sh!t all of them closing up and bleaching by this time im scratching my head to what could be wrong testing and testing some more all my levels where ok so i was soooo confused then i thought to myself hey wait a minute my gate valve is brass so it might have copper duh. I google up some info and yep everything pointed to that being the cause of my corals dying even my snails and banded shrimp looked like they where slowly dying not active as before, so bought me a poly filter and in a day turned blue so that indicates there is copper being removed a couple of my corals did survive but some did not, most of them did not . So i guess now i learned my lesson this is my first reef tank so i learned something new i guess the hard way. So if someone is thinking of using any kind of brass in your sump or anywhere near saltwater do not. Dont make the same mistake i did. Also do any of you reefers know how long would it take for poly filter to remove most of the copper in the tank, i know itll take some time since i had live rock and it maybe got into the rock im even thinking of putting as much poly filter as i can. Stupid simple thing that can make everything go to sht.
I want to buy more corals since the tank looks all sad n stuff my torch and frogspawn survived but they barely open up. So do you reefers think i should wait a bit longer then buy corals ? Or get to it ? Thanks
