Urgent: don't know what happened!

[shaginwagon13]

Well I havent added anything yet, i kept the same chemipure and purigen, and the same chaeto... I was going to add a little bit of live rock today... maybe i shouldn't? The only thing added was the phosban. I've done two waterchanges, both of about 2 gallons to make sure if anything bad was in there i could get it out. And i will keep doing some. So maybe they are just upset because i changed up the filtration..?

Have you done a water change yet? I would start with maybe a 40% water change if you have not already done so. Also, I wouldn't add any LR now unless its already fully cured. You don't want to add more stress to an already stressed-out tank.

 

[Jblank44]

How do you figure it was 1-inch thick?

should I not ad live rock today? or would that be okay

 

[shaginwagon13]

should I not ad live rock today? or would that be okay

I wouldn't add any LR now unless its already fully cured. You don't want to add more stress to an already stressed-out tank.

 

[Jblank44]

I wouldn't add any LR now unless its already fully cured. You don't want to add more stress to an already stressed-out tank.

okay, the lfs has them fully cured, just thought it would help soak up some nitrates and phosphates to give them perfect water to recover in.

 

[shaginwagon13]

okay, the lfs has them fully cured, just thought it would help soak up some nitrates and phosphates to give them perfect water to recover in.

The best thing you can do to remove nitrates and phosphates is a large water change.

You could also run some carbon or GFO but adding more LR at this time is something I would not do. Even just the short trip home in the car the LR will have some die-off which will need to cycle or be removed once placed in your sump.

 

[Jblank44]

The best thing you can do to remove nitrates and phosphates is a large water change.

You could also run some carbon or GFO but adding more LR at this time is something I would not do. Even just the short trip home in the car the LR will have some die-off which will need to cycle or be removed once placed in your sump.

Everything is doing much better, the only bad thing is there are micro bubbles in the DT... How is it cause and how can it be fixed?

 

[shaginwagon13]

Everything is doing much better, the only bad thing is there are micro bubbles in the DT... How is it cause and how can it be fixed?

Are you able to take some pics or your sump and the bubbles in your tank? We can try to solve where the bubbles are coming from.

 

[Jblank44]

Are you able to take some pics or your sump and the bubbles in your tank? We can try to solve where the bubbles are coming from.

Yes , and I will try to get some to you that are better.... But they are very little, dust particle like....

It's really hard to see but you can see some accumulation under the return nozzles there.