Here is the history in July I moved and decided it was time to upgrade to a new 75 gal. I intended for it to be a reef so I took all my live rock from my 40 gal. and got another 50 lbs from a friend (about 100 lbs altogether). The tank was set up using about 30 gal of water from the original tank. I even re-curred the additional rock before adding it to the tank. So about 4 weeks in I go out of town for the weekend and when I get back everything is dead. Which at the time was not much because I gave alot away because I didn't want the move to kill them. My heater had shorted and fryed it all. My worms and stars and shrooms all the little creepy crawlies were just out layin around. I cleaned it up and waited about a month before even adding a fish. All my params are right but I still can not sustain any invert. life even my coraline algae has receeded dramaticly. I have tried everything I can think of please help!:duh:
inverts don't survive.
- Thread starter pokoloco
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could the heater have leaked something into the water that is killing inverts? maybe metals and such.
no I have not tested for copper but I will, to be honest I have never used or even owned any copper treatments so it never even occurred to me to check. As for the heater it was not busted so i don't see how anything could have gotten into the system. Thanks for the ideas.
Water parameters? Setup details? Last water change? We'll need all this info and as detailed as possible to try to get to the bottom of this.
The tank is a 75 gal with a single overflow. It feeds into an aqua pro 125 wet dry sump. I have a 1100 gph return pump going up to a split return headthey point at 90 degree angles from one another on the overflow side of the tank. on the otherside of the tank I have a Korlia 3 and 2 Korlia nanos pointing back towards the overflow. the 3 is high and 1 nano is high the other is below the 3. I change about 10 gal per week if I miss a week I change twice as much. I use R/O water and until recently I used coralife salt, but I have just switched to instant ocean. My water parameters are as follows:
Temp. 78 F
SG 1.025
PH 8.2
KH 9 dKH
Ca 500 ppm
Nitrate 15 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Ammonia 0 ppm
Phosphate .25 ppm
Temp. 78 F
SG 1.025
PH 8.2
KH 9 dKH
Ca 500 ppm
Nitrate 15 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Ammonia 0 ppm
Phosphate .25 ppm
Yes, if inverts cant survive, first thing Iwould ve check was Copper.
Long time ago, people used Cu in FOWLR tank. LR from your friend may have been exposed to such if LR were passed on thru few different hobbyists.
Unfortunately, once LR were exposed to any heavy metal, it is very difficult to use them for inverts.
It is also possibility that tap may contain Cu as we use Cu piping thus good idea to run the water for a while before collecting to be used for fish tank, of course cold water only. I would not use any hot water for fish tank period. I would use heaters to heat up any cold water being used for fish tank.
No worrys once RO/DI are hooked up.
Heater, unless glass was broken, I doubt any contact was made with metals.
Even if it did, I believe the metal used within the glass tube, I believe most metal components are galvanized thus no real big issues unless been exposed over prolonged period.
Hope you find the answers soon!
Long time ago, people used Cu in FOWLR tank. LR from your friend may have been exposed to such if LR were passed on thru few different hobbyists.
Unfortunately, once LR were exposed to any heavy metal, it is very difficult to use them for inverts.
It is also possibility that tap may contain Cu as we use Cu piping thus good idea to run the water for a while before collecting to be used for fish tank, of course cold water only. I would not use any hot water for fish tank period. I would use heaters to heat up any cold water being used for fish tank.
No worrys once RO/DI are hooked up.
Heater, unless glass was broken, I doubt any contact was made with metals.
Even if it did, I believe the metal used within the glass tube, I believe most metal components are galvanized thus no real big issues unless been exposed over prolonged period.
Hope you find the answers soon!