Search results

Reef Aquarium & Tank Building Forum

Help Support Reef Aquarium & Tank Building Forum:

  1. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    No No soap. I just cleaed everything with water and vinegar, no soap ever again ugh, what a lesson. Anyways I read somewhere that chroline ( bleach) doesnt kill everything anyways, ( bacteria and parasite wise) actually its more capable of killing your fish first if any residue is left in the...
  2. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    definately, huge learning curve on this booboo.
  3. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    :)Guys agreed, corals, anenmone, mangroves are all getting rinsed and added to Qt tank, I know I should have done this from the get go, but I didnt know what was wrong. I'm going to run straight tap water with lots of vinegar, then dry it and bake it as JNAROWE suggested. This should kill or...
  4. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    I agree guys, So I put my new LR in a tub with fresh mixed saltwater and my fish, my corals and mangroves are still in the quarentined off section of my fuge. I ran phosguard last night but it did nothing, so ya Im breaking down the tank to clean it. Any suggestions, should I try the old method...
  5. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    So what should I do here guys any suggestions?
  6. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Thanks man, Its just hard cause I can't do huge water changes right now with my time crunch, just doing smaller ones. Tonight I cleaned out my skimmers, and started running PhosGuard I used to run this all the time before this problem. So I got my new LR its gorgeous Im afraid of putting it...
  7. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Guys, fuge is isolated, corals , crabs and snails are in the fuge section off from return. SSB has been removes, LR removed, nothing is left, only fish. New LR comes today Ok I will try to do a huge wc of 50%, but its hard when you get home at 8pm at night and have to be at work by 9am next...
  8. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    fish, snails crabs were all fine, I could get them out to a small container, but I dont think its effecting them really seems to be just the water. Temp probe is not plated niether is ph probe, so niether is giving a false reading plus the test kits arent lying so that doesnt seem to be the...
  9. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Im confused Ok I removed the corals, crabs, snails, anenmone, all except the fish. I vaccumed out the ssb, threw out the LR as my new LR is comming today, and guess what happened to the water? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ITS STILL FING CLOUDY Im not sure if I mentioned this new problem, but there...
  10. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    scooterman hey sorry I missed that comment, it's hard keeping up, today was a small disaster the GBTA isnt dead but very weak, mouth is closed, but not eating yet, and he got caught on the pump twice so far, so now its off, amongst the millions problems lately Im happy to say my fish are doing...
  11. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Could it get odder? Hey guys, thanks for the postings and support. Here's where it goes mental! Ok so the tank started to get very clean sans the tunze, so I came home the tank must have run low pumping air into the aqaurium, after a long weekend of house hunting. ( got to get out of...
  12. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Let me first say thank you to everyone who has been responding to my thread with any and all suggestions I truly appreciate all the help here. Let me answer a few questions. First: Did I test for nitrates and Nitrites, amonia, etc...? Yes all read zero, including the nitrite or atleast...
  13. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Scooterman, good point Im working from a knowledge base you dont have. So let me elaborate. I am 100% theres nothing dying in the aquairum. MY tank is a 30X30X17 shallow cube Starphire. Sump is roughly 30gl, arcylic I built, with buble trap and center return with 15 g refugium. Two Tunze...
  14. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Mike I understand what your saying and it's a very valid point, but the smelly stinking aquarium is not something the wife or I want to put up with a newborn in a small apartment, so its got to go. I think starting over will help in that it will be a fresh start and with new cured rock, I might...
  15. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    QT TANK is getting setup with some new salt, scrubbed heater and cleaned my one TUNZE so we shall see, next is to collect the remaining corals and fish, then to drain dump live rock, sand and water and clean aquairum, Ugh what a disaster. Advice be very careful with mixing containers and...
  16. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Sadly, I think the tank maybe permanently contaminated it just seems soo FING bizarre to me, I am going to use this rubbermaid container. I can't take off from work, I can't stay up til the am doing this sh**!, so basically I'm going to close off the old tank, dump the live rock, sand...
  17. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Ron no water is made up yet, my only option is to use another rubbermaid container thats storing some clothes. Any ideas what this could be ??? Im totally freaked out beyond words, I've never seen anything like this in all my years in this hobby, never had such a random and bizzare event...
  18. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    please please any suggestions guys, why would it get worse not better???
  19. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Omfg!!! Please somebody anybody tell me wtf this is~~~!!! Ok I left for the day with my wif and child to my folks, running carbon in the tank both bags, and phosreactor filled with it and the tank started to clear up I come home and its MUTHA F*^(^ING MILK COLORED WORSE THEN BEFORE. PLEASE...
  20. Ditchplains2

    Tank Is Crashing Please Help!!

    Yea, I'm just hoping to get a good food grade container to do a new wc change in, I'm a little freaked right now to do one again. Water is still very cloudy. sadly, carbon is working I know this cause the coral polyps seem to be trying to poke out, but nothing is doing as it should, all snails...
Back
Top