RothChyld
12-04-2003, 12:39 PM
After 3.5 years my tank bit the dust. I had a self inflicting wound and left for vacation with someone in charge. The protein skimmer overflowed and 24 hours later everything was about dead. I still have a few button polyps left, several shrooms, and an elephant leather but the other 12 or so corals melted pretty quick. To make things worse I had a sea cucumber that expelled his guts. All snails, hermies, shrimp, featherdusters, etc. are all dead. (ok Bad day).
The day got worse after I cleaned everything out - dead corals, snails, hermies, wet/dry, etc. then my wet-dry was leaking. I replaced it with a new one with some fresh LR in the filter.
I am extremely high on Ammonia - 2.2 or so and very little trites/trates. I have 7 chromis, blenny, hawk, blue tang, and a royal gramma that all appear to be doing fine.
Question is, should I perform continuos water changes? I am going through my cycle again and starting to get brown algae. I am dosing with a bacteria supplement as well to speed up the cycling process. Also, assuming my rock was "contaminated" per say, should I get all new rock or attempt to recure what I have? If I spike on trites/trates during the latter part of the cycle (if that is what is really going on) do the fish have a worse part to endure coming up?
Thanks in advance!
So many questions... After this I think I have been through it all!
The day got worse after I cleaned everything out - dead corals, snails, hermies, wet/dry, etc. then my wet-dry was leaking. I replaced it with a new one with some fresh LR in the filter.
I am extremely high on Ammonia - 2.2 or so and very little trites/trates. I have 7 chromis, blenny, hawk, blue tang, and a royal gramma that all appear to be doing fine.
Question is, should I perform continuos water changes? I am going through my cycle again and starting to get brown algae. I am dosing with a bacteria supplement as well to speed up the cycling process. Also, assuming my rock was "contaminated" per say, should I get all new rock or attempt to recure what I have? If I spike on trites/trates during the latter part of the cycle (if that is what is really going on) do the fish have a worse part to endure coming up?
Thanks in advance!
So many questions... After this I think I have been through it all!