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Posted: December 11 2011 at 10:31pm |
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Ok so I had my tank crash, killed most everything but the stickin fish lol. It still stinks and cloudy, I have done water change after water change and it is still cloudy. Now my question to you is this, do you think that I need to pull the rocks out? That they are having die off as well?
Has anyone ever had an actual full blown tank crash? What were your experiences with getting it going again?
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 1:52am |
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have you tried moving your fish into a temporary home and doing a 100% water change?
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 5:57am |
Unfortunately I've had a few over the years for various reasons. I usually did ~25% water change per day for about a week...nothing crazy. Running carbon and a skimmer running wet helped as well, and the tank was usually clear within about 3 days. To really help...what caused the crash? That'll determine if your rocks are having die-off too. IME, there's rarely a true 100% crash that causes a full restart (except when the exterminator accidentally got some poison in my reef tank...that was really bad.) If your fish are still alive, then the ammonia/nitrite may be ok for your bacteria as well. If you just let things settle out, you'll probably have some serious cyano coming.
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 10:04am |
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I have also had tanks crash. I would suggest a 99% water change --> remove as much water as possible without removing the fish.
Then, take it slow. Run carbon full-time, remove anything that is dead or appears to be on the way out early. Reduce feeding proportionally to your losses.
Following the cyano bloom, begin to repopulate and keep a close eye on your water parameters.
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 10:21am |
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I agree with Shane. I did as big a water change as possible. And watched it extreamly close for a while.
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 11:17am |
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Thanks for the input everone.... Ill let you know what i am going to do a little later...
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 4:06pm |
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Shane got this one. But after you get things settled out, it's time to starting planning on how to make it even more awesome this time around!
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 8:36pm |
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what are your water params? just curious.
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 12:42pm |
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lol you know I havent thought about it lol. Everything is still dying and I know that they are all off the charts!
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 2:03pm |
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well here is the list of what was lost:
orange Digi,
Pink Birdsnest
Rainbow Wellsi
green Wellsi x2
Green Plate
Colony of Hammer Head
colony of Frogspawn
HUGE Green and purple monti plate
blue polyped monti
colony green duncans
blue duncans
BIG clam
small maxima clam
Red Trachy
Wall Frogspawn
Hundreds of Candy Coral
6 peppermint shrimp (so far)
Cleaner shrimp
Arrow Crab
Star fish
Hundred or so Snails and Crabs
ZOAS ZOAS ZOAS all colors and sizes
Blasto Colony with 100 heads or so on it.
Pink Chalace
Some type of Red Monti
Orange and green Lobo Colony
ORA supernatural Colony
Idaho Grape Colony
and my pride
Probably more im forgetting....
Fish..... NONE they are all still alive! STUPID FISH! I never could keep fish till the last 6-12 months! lol thats my luck!
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 2:29pm |
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When you start to re-stock let us know. I don't have much, but what I do have you are welcome to.
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 2:45pm |
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 3:06pm |
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Ill take a picture when I get home..... Pretty sad, it has cleared up a lot and doesnt stink so much today.
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 6:35pm |
Here they are    I would have taken pictures of the corals .... but that is depressing!
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 6:49pm |
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Out of curiosity do you know what caused the crash? Heater, contaminate?
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 6:55pm |
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I had all my top off go into the tank with some kalk in it. It wasnt full dosed kalk top off but about half. I have been told thats what some people think. That happened on Sat, the tank all died basically over night 5 days later.
After talking to lots of people they say there is no way that could have caused it, others say yes, some say they have read online that it could have caused it.
Personally I dont think so, to die 5 days later in a matter of about 6 hours is really odd.
Im going to pull out all the rock and see if something is in there.
So to answer your question not 100% sure yet.
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 7:15pm |
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omg thats horrible. its hurts me to look at how much you lost. so sorry that you or anyone for that matter has to suffer through that.
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 7:20pm |
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Thanks its tough, the worst part is I dont even want to look at it right now, but I have to deal with it because of the smell in the house!
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 7:30pm |
Im sorry to hear about your loss. I freak out even when I see a slight loss in color so I can imagine how that would be. Let us all know when the tank is up and running and I can donate some corals to help start up again. 
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