What to do now.

What to do now?

  • Start over with Tampa Bay SW rock and sand

    Votes: 4 18.2%

  • Start over with other rock and sand

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Toss the sand, cure the rock

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • toss the rock, keep the sand

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Keep sand, cure the tock

    Votes: 14 63.6%

  • Get out of SW, it's too hard

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
OgreMkV

OgreMkV

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My tank crashed before even being really setup and going. See this thread for more... http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=158782

Go down to the bottom to see what finally happened.

So what would you do now? Richard from TBS has said that he will not let me fail and will send new rock and sand.

I'm concerned about the emotional damage of cycling with live critters and the potential of bad hitchhikers.

Can my old rock be saved?

What do you think?
 
Your live rock is fine...it is curing at the moment (in your tank). Be patient, turn off the lights until your water parameters equalize, and just let nature do it's thing. Your rock will spring back in due time.
 
Keep with it! Just let your rock continue to cure. Patience is the key to saltwater and soon enough you will have a beautiful tank!! Don't quit now.
 
The rock is fine. Sure, you lost some of your beneficial macrofauna, but everything else should survive in sufficient numbers. Just stick with it.
 
You guys aren't quite getting it. The rocks smell dead. I had flies in my house trying to land in the water. My wife made me pull all the rock.

I was going to try and salvage it by putting it in a big bin and curing it that way. I scrubbed for several hours and the rock is beyond rank.

TBS is going to help me out and I'll try it again. There's nothing else I can do at this point... except give up and I'm not willing to do that with all the money I've got in here now.
 
Your rocks aren't dead...some of the critters living in and on the rock are dead. That's what curing is all about. The rock will spring back in time. Sure, you may never see some of the original critters again, but your rock certainly is not dead.
 
when lfs get live rock in the cure it in tank in the basement or back where they go thru the same thing, thats why when we buy already cured rock there is nothing creature wise left but things we don't like all the goodies are gone, the die in ammonia spikes or are taken out and put into mature tanks away from the new rock,

when shipped the stuff on the rock start to die off, that is why you always put shipped rock into bins for a few weeks before puting into display, but ours was new tank so just have to cure it in there,.. the rock is fine just a little surface dieoff..
 
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