I did something very stupid

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Cheech

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I've been curing live rock for weeks... i haven't checked the water in a while.. Today, i finally did, and it turns out that the salinity level was at about 1.038.

I should have checked it earlier, but I didn't...

I have 100 lbs in the tank.. Do you think everything beneficial in it is now dead??? I really hope not... The rock still has some nice colors, but I'm afraid that any bristleworm, and other little critters might not be able to withstand the high salinity levels...


What do you think?>
 
I certainly hope so. It's my boss' tank, and I'm the designated tank carer. . It would suck if I would have to tell him that everything died cause I forgot to check the salinity levels, right after he spent 1000$ on the rock!!!

You live and learn...
 
well, if your boss is making you take care of the tank, he's probably not gonna know or care if a bunch of microscopic bugs died, just don't tell him and he'll never know if he doe'snt know whats suposed to be there.
 
if you're really concerned swap out pieces with new ones every few months
 
I put the rocks in the big tank, so I'll wait a few weeks and see if anything starts growing. I do have some other live rock in there, maybe about 30 lbs or so, but at one point my heater busted, and brought the temp in my tank at high 90's. Almost everything died, but surprisingly, lots of feather dusters are still alive and reproducing quite well.

I'll see what happens. But I'll prob. go get a rock or two next week, and just hope that there's some nice stuff living in it which will eventually feed the rest of the stuff.
 
Curing the rock often kills many of the organisms anyway, so most of your loss will be normal. The salinity is the least of your worries when curing. You can reach extremely high ammonia levels, which are normal, but kill much growth. Don't worry too much, it's no biggie. All that growth you lost will eventually grow back. It's pretty amazing what comes back after die-off.
 
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