Help! Went on business trip for 6 months and come back to this.

[DancingShark]

I am guessing it was over feeding. But 6 month is a long time anything could have happened. Two out three big water changes 30 to 40% each and try to vacuum out everything you can from the bottom to get detritus out. Again water changes are a wonderful thing.

 

[shaginwagon13]

Help! Went on business trip for 6 months and come back to this.

200 a month. He's a family friend


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Wow, not a small amount of money.

Did this friend have experience with tanks before yours?

I most likely would have required him to take pictures weekly and send them to me, I'm sorry your tank looks the way it is, hopefully you can salvage what is still alive and get it cleaned up.


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[Lsufan]

I. Looks like it's covered in hair algea which is covered with Dino. I would restart if it was mine. It doesn't look like u have many corals left to worry about

 

[Daltonbilecki]

What "maintenance" did he even do with your tank that was worth $200 a month? Top off once a week? Yikes. Considering he killed everything in your entire tank and its overrun with algae/dinos, id also recommend restarting the tank and having a talk with your friend


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[brett559]

It's a small tank. Restart it.

 

[Shia]

If you decide not to restart, then I would recommend doing some lanthanum chloride dosing. What you most likely will notice that phosphate has saturated your rock and substrate, so it will take a few months to get it under control, but absolutely possible.

 

[mattgumaer]

As others have suggested, I'd start over. It doesn't look like they're are a ton of things to save and the tank is pretty small.

I wouldn't put too much blame on the house sitter necessarily. 6 months is a long time to put a tank in someone else's hands, particularly in they're not into the hobby. Even if they are, from my limited experience, different tanks may behave very differently and smaller tanks are tougher than bigger tanks. Now, why he didn't alert you things were going south, that's another question.

Good luck. Use it as an excuse to try something new/different. Then, you might actually enjoy the process.

Matt

 

[karimwassef]

Don't use chemicals. Get a scrubber. Get UV. Turn light off and let the scrubber clean things up.

 

[UTCReefer]

+1 on the reboot.

 

[ktownhero]

Yikes, you paid him $1200 for that? Rough. I would get the money back and start over!

 

[jd371]

I agree, with such a small tank I would just start over.