Please Help Crash

[Antman]

Hello all , I hade to swap out my 54 corner tank this sunday
I broke down the old tank put all the rock -corals-fish in buckets
I put 4 bags of new live sand -re did my rock work - filled the tank-I saved about half of the water and mixed up about 20 gallons of new water
let the tank get up to temp added back corals, fish inverts-
I woke up monday AM and my hole house stinks!! The tank room smells so foul .I added a full bag of new carbon
I do not see 3 of my fish -my hippo , coral beauty , fridmani .I am not sure if they made it or not
WHAT Do I do now ? the tank smells so bad Please help
Thanks

 

[ihopss]

Firsts is to find your fish,dead or alive and anything else that could have died.

 

[Antman]

With all the rock in the tank this will be HARD if they are dead !

 

[Antman]

I did see one clown and the coral beauty monday AM but have not seen the others
The one clown is still out and eating

 

[Sk8r]

Break everything down again and find any survivors. Get them into clean water, in qt, along with all inverts.
Reassemble the tank: it's cycling. Your live rock will survive, ditto the sand, but it has to reesstablish its layers. This may be another 2 weeks in process.

 

[Antman]

Should the water Stink that bad ? the hole house stinks ?
I have had a few tanks / moved tanks from houes to house in the past 15 years but never hade a stink like this

 

[Macimage]

Take Sk8r's advice and find your fish, inverts and corals and get them into a clean quarantine tank.

Yes, cycling live rock can stink. The cycle will also kill your fish, inverts and corals, so get them out of there asap.

Joyce

 

[Playa-1]

That's the smell of death
Get the survivors out of there before you lose everything.

 

[melev]

When you moved the tank, did you move the rock fully submerged in water? Did you reuse the old sand, or toss it out? You said you added 4 bags of new live sand, but didn't clarify what happened to the old sand.

Did you test your water for ammonia and nitrite yet?

 

[demonsp]

The new LS started a new cycle and it must run its course. BUMMER i would say.