Something went deadly wrong Treating ICH

Personally I would replace all media, deep clean the bio balls.

Unless you knew what caused it, its just not worth trying to reuse. If one of those medias are holding a toxin it could be bad news.
 
I always said if I could do it over again I would do a fish less cycle. Is there a link on the forums for fish less cycling steps? I truly want to get started doing things correctly I don't think I can tank another dead tank. Here is my Plan of attack. Please fill in where needed. I want to do things better with the new info that I have.
I have seen to much death. I am all about life.

1.) get new live sand and Live rock. I will just dispose of the old stuff.
2.) Get new Media for my fluval fx6. I will dispose of all the old media
3.) New Water of course
4.) Cycle tank (Fish less)
 
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Don't need new live rock or sand.

Look up how to cycle a tank using ammonia, you can get it from ace hardware.


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WoooHoo i can keep my live sand and rock nice. I have been looking at Dr. Tim's One and only for fish less cycling. I have read some good reviews on it. Anyone ever use
Dr. Tim's?
 
To be honest, you probably don't need anything to re start your cycle. All the die off in your rocks will start the cycle. Your rock was once cured/cycled So now it's just going to have to go thru the process again.

Plus, since you didn't do anything to your sand, it's full of the bene bacteria you need anyway. No need for any bottled bacteria. Just ghost feed the tank and let it run its course. Check your levels in a few weeks and don't add anything at this point until after 72 total days. Anything wet.


You can use the bottled bacteria for your QT tank in which you should read up on how to properly treat fish prophylactically for certain things, and then keep them in your qt for a 4-5 weeks for observation and retreat if needed. By the time the whole QT process is done, you're half way done with leaving the tank fallow. Once it's done being fallow, your healthy fish can go in


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