mitchellmoto
Member
I'm starting this thread because my last thread (New Tank Members) is a little confusing next to "Member tanks so I'm going to let it fad into nothing.
Well I hit disasters the last two weeks.
I started by taking down one of my nano reef tanks to start a Iwagumi planted tank for the wife. Well I must have done something because a week later my overflow came apart. Almost a disaster in its self but I moved ever thing to my frag tanks in the garage, took the overflow off and reattached it properly. will i then had a two fold disaster in the frag system. I had another flatworm breakout ofter purchasing some new coral. So I dosed to kill them. Then I added white cutting boards to one of the frag tanks to help reflect light and I thought I had purchased the right ones but instead I think I added ones that had some sort of Bio seal on them. Needless to say with the two fold hit within two days my frag system went from beautiful to a fuzzy black algae death scene. In the 6-7 years I've been keeping marine aquariums I have never seen anything like it. Not even when I was new to the hobby and doing everything wrong.
I lost roughly 90% of my coral. All SPS and almost all LPS died. I only have a few hardy softies left.
I only lost 2 fish, one clown and my yellow eyed tang. I saved all the predators
I setup a temp tank to house what is left as I reassess my situation.
BOO HOO:headwalls:
Well that is all the bad news.
Now the good
I will be completely redoing everything. And I mean everything.
All several hundred pounds of live rock is no longer live it is all drying out side right now the entire setup is torn down and I am planning the new setup. I did save a few small pieces of live rock to reseed everything. They will first be dipped extensively and quarantined. I want no pests no hair algae no critters I will try to limit what goes into the system.
The first business is to clean the damn garage. Then I will be drawing out everything to try and improve some things that were giving me problems. I will have a minimum of a 20L for a quarantine tank and more than likely a new sump.
Luckily since i will be re purposing equipment I already own, build time should be less than normal. I'm also thinking about trying some new things like actually trying the bacteria in the bottle that MR.SaltwaterAquarium mentioned. Using a tiered tank system to utilize one pump instead of two and use gravity to still have the same amount of flow thru the tanks. Automatic water change and top off with kalkwasser.
So I've droned on enough let the fun begin and I will post pics as i progress.
later
Mitch
Well I hit disasters the last two weeks.
I started by taking down one of my nano reef tanks to start a Iwagumi planted tank for the wife. Well I must have done something because a week later my overflow came apart. Almost a disaster in its self but I moved ever thing to my frag tanks in the garage, took the overflow off and reattached it properly. will i then had a two fold disaster in the frag system. I had another flatworm breakout ofter purchasing some new coral. So I dosed to kill them. Then I added white cutting boards to one of the frag tanks to help reflect light and I thought I had purchased the right ones but instead I think I added ones that had some sort of Bio seal on them. Needless to say with the two fold hit within two days my frag system went from beautiful to a fuzzy black algae death scene. In the 6-7 years I've been keeping marine aquariums I have never seen anything like it. Not even when I was new to the hobby and doing everything wrong.
I lost roughly 90% of my coral. All SPS and almost all LPS died. I only have a few hardy softies left.
I only lost 2 fish, one clown and my yellow eyed tang. I saved all the predators
I setup a temp tank to house what is left as I reassess my situation.
BOO HOO:headwalls:
Well that is all the bad news.
Now the good
I will be completely redoing everything. And I mean everything.
All several hundred pounds of live rock is no longer live it is all drying out side right now the entire setup is torn down and I am planning the new setup. I did save a few small pieces of live rock to reseed everything. They will first be dipped extensively and quarantined. I want no pests no hair algae no critters I will try to limit what goes into the system.
The first business is to clean the damn garage. Then I will be drawing out everything to try and improve some things that were giving me problems. I will have a minimum of a 20L for a quarantine tank and more than likely a new sump.
Luckily since i will be re purposing equipment I already own, build time should be less than normal. I'm also thinking about trying some new things like actually trying the bacteria in the bottle that MR.SaltwaterAquarium mentioned. Using a tiered tank system to utilize one pump instead of two and use gravity to still have the same amount of flow thru the tanks. Automatic water change and top off with kalkwasser.
So I've droned on enough let the fun begin and I will post pics as i progress.
later
Mitch