pretty basic question....i hope!

[fanning]

ok im upgrading from a 46bowfront fowlr to a 120g..my sittuation is i had to move the 46 to make room for the 120 moving the tank and stand went well all the fish are fine and happy but i cant find a single pod or bristle worm(i had a very healthy population) it been a few weeks since i moved the 46 and at first i thought they may just have gone into the rocks till things settled back down but nothing...ive tryed looking in on them with a flashlight about an hour after the lights go out for the night... where did they go...lol did they not survive the the move...seems hard to belive that a healthy population like i had would not have had a few survivers and stated to repopulate....ANY IDEAS?????



thanks
mitch

 

[fanning]

hmmm nobody has any ideas yet

 

[mscarpena]

I would not think they all died. They can survive transport not in water when live rock is shipped. Weird.

 

[fanning]

it really is the the strangest thing...i drained the water into a trash can took most of the rock out(just to make it a lil lighter) did the deed and put everything back the way it was and no pods and no bristles...im just kinda worried that something mite be wrong and just effecting the rest of the tank as of yet

 

[kingfisher62]

Was the "new tank" used?

 

[fanning]

the 46 was used when i got and didntt have any other life besides the fish i raised the tank to what it is the pod and worm pop was there because of my husbandry and then i moved it and they all at once just disappeard

 

[fanning]

all this is happend in the 46 still...120 is new but not quite ready for final set up

 

[kingfisher62]

I get it !
I was thinking the new tank might have had copper in the tank at one time. Obviously not the case.
Perhaps stirring up the sandbed could of screwed things up.

 

[fanning]

im a lil confused as to what exactly could be the cause of all the bristles and the pods just vanishing in the matter of about an hour and not coming back(if they just went into hiding)its been a couple weeks since i moved the 46...like i said above im hoping nothing else mite be going wrong and just not efecting the rest of the tank yet...i know im stumped...lol not a very big deal tho as long as nothing else is wrong

 

[fanning]

i was kinda thinking that stirring up the sand bed could have released some mildly toxic gasses trapped in the bed but most of the pod and bristles lived in the rock not that that would mean anything really

 

[fanning]

anyone else wanna take a stab at what mite be up with the sudden disapperance of all bristles and pods

 

[mndfreeze]

Temperature shock.

 

[fanning]

thats something i didnt think of.....but heres the thing with that just a couple weeks before i moved the 46g tank we had a bad storm and the power was out for like 2 days and the water got way cooler then than it did in the short time it took me to move the tank...but its something else to think about...keep the ideas come.. im bound and determined to figure out what happened to all my pods and bristles

 

[camostore]

i am thinking if you stirred up the sand you had an ammonia spike

 

[kingfisher62]

What's done is done.
See if you can find someone with a refugium and a large pod population and get a ball of chaeto from them so you can repopulate your tank.

 

[fanning]

yeah i guess thats true..whats done is done...the 120 that is almost done will have a fuge and ill be keeping cheato in it...i was thinking of starting a biuld thread but its actually almost done..but either way ill thro out the progress...as far the ammonia spike could it have been large enough to kill the pods and bristles but not the fish and snails and hermits