Actually my daughters friend had his tank crash. I have never seen the tank, however I understand he lost all corals and most fish. Eel, damsel and hippo survived. Daughter called asking if live fish could be stored in my tank. I declined due to not knowing what caused the crash. I could have placed livestock in my sump to prevent conflict in my main tank. I am feeling bad that I did not help someone out. Curious what others would have done?
Friends Tank Crashed
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CStrickland
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Nah. You did the right thing.
I'd be over there in a minute with some prime, buckets, rodi, and like the shirt off my back to mop up spills; but nobody's putting a bunch of dodgy fish in my system. Who knows what they are carrying, it'd basically negate any qt you'd ever done with an extra dash of danger.
You have a bigger responsibility to your animals that depend on you, y'know?
You did right, once they get back on their feet you can hook them up with some free frags
I'd be over there in a minute with some prime, buckets, rodi, and like the shirt off my back to mop up spills; but nobody's putting a bunch of dodgy fish in my system. Who knows what they are carrying, it'd basically negate any qt you'd ever done with an extra dash of danger.
You have a bigger responsibility to your animals that depend on you, y'know?
You did right, once they get back on their feet you can hook them up with some free frags
davocean
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You have to do what is best for your animals, if his were diseased yours would have suffered as well.
A QT would be the way to go if anyone he knew had one.
Some fish stores will take them and put in their hospital tanks, sometimes, maybe an option.
Don't feel bad, I would not invite the unknown to my animals.
A QT would be the way to go if anyone he knew had one.
Some fish stores will take them and put in their hospital tanks, sometimes, maybe an option.
Don't feel bad, I would not invite the unknown to my animals.
Best thing to do with an impending crash is get two buckets---the living into one, the dying into another in hopes a couple might live in clean water, and the dead into a bin for disposal. RUn your tank skimmer, run carbon, do a 30% water change if you can, and just keep it going. This leaves the tank chemistry /bacteria to recover their balance without a cascade of dying things demising and decaying. Often the tank will pull back from the brink within hours, depending on what caused it [if a pollutant of some sort, a bigger problem] and the living and ok can go back in. Main thing, equivalent to the oxy mask on a plane in trouble---get critters that could die out of the tank and let it recover.
The takeaway from this is: keep a bottle of Prime (so you can 'condition' tapwater for use), a mixing pump of some potency---enough to completely mix new saltwater within 6 hours, which is one very strong pump, a container to mix in, and always, always, always, enough salt to change out 50% of your tank system. THis gives you enough for a water change and a rescue tank.
Running carbon or Polyfilter is a good idea in any tank crisis. So is increasing oxygenation as much as possible.
The takeaway from this is: keep a bottle of Prime (so you can 'condition' tapwater for use), a mixing pump of some potency---enough to completely mix new saltwater within 6 hours, which is one very strong pump, a container to mix in, and always, always, always, enough salt to change out 50% of your tank system. THis gives you enough for a water change and a rescue tank.
Running carbon or Polyfilter is a good idea in any tank crisis. So is increasing oxygenation as much as possible.
heathlindner25
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In a crashing system scenario grabbing his coral and putting them in a stable system could have been beneficial
