Dead Anemone

[cyberdeth]

Thought my GBTA was sick. She moved from where she had been for months. I thought maybe she was just moving. Today I came home and saw white flesh at bottom of tank. Tried to get it out and it went everywhere. I got out the turkey baster and started sucking it out. Testing water now. Is there anything else I should do? Fishies/corals/inverts seem ok and want food. To bad they do eat that!

TIA!

 

[olsenshouse]

I'd like to follow this thread. Good luck on the clean up.

 

[Slate]

Big water change if you haven't already.

 

[cyberdeth]

Big water change if you haven't already.

Just did a 30% change. Last 5 thru skimmer. Skimmer had already skimmed a quart of goop by the time I got home.

 

[returnofsid]

Run Carbon and do large water changes.

 

[cyberdeth]

Run Carbon and do large water changes.

Always running carbon. Should I rinse it?

 

[Chingon]

change the carbon often as its collecting lots of bad stuff in the water. keep doing water changes. 10 gal a day depending on your tank size. just dont over do it.

 

[Ichthys]

Carbon

change the carbon often as its collecting lots of bad stuff in the water. keep doing water changes. 10 gal a day depending on your tank size. just dont over do it.

Someone told me recently that the active life of carbon in a reef tank is 48 hours, after that it's doing nothing. And it was someone that really knows her stuff, so even though it kinda surprised me that carbon gets useless so quickly, I tend to take her word for it.... just thought i would pass it along, I know alot of people drop carbon in their sumps and leave it for a month or more.....

Ichthys

 

[loohunter]

Someone told me recently that the active life of carbon in a reef tank is 48 hours, after that it's doing nothing. And it was someone that really knows her stuff, so even though it kinda surprised me that carbon gets useless so quickly, I tend to take her word for it.... just thought i would pass it along, I know alot of people drop carbon in their sumps and leave it for a month or more.....

Ichthys

I wonder what Boomer would have to say about this. I can somewhat understand why someone would think this,but from my own personal exp. i would have to disagree

 

[thatguy559]

http://www.hallman.org/filter/gac.html

taken from this article

Aquarists often ask how much activated carbon should be used in the aquarium. Some carbon products give recommendations while others give no indication at all. Independent research has shown that “more is better” when using activated carbon. When filtering municipal water or aquarium water a greater quantity of carbon will work faster and longer than a lesser amount. A rough guide would be two U.S. cups (480 c.c.) per 55 gallons (280 L.) of aquarium water. Some aquarists use more or less depending on their filtration system and quality of the carbon product they use. Most carbon products last about six weeks in a marine “fish” aquarium. Reef aquaria produce more organics than a regular aquarium and may require more frequent replacement. Activated carbon cannot be reactivated by boiling in water or heating in an oven, the temperature is too low to destroy the sorbed pollutants and restore sorptive capacity.

 

[cyberdeth]

Nice linkage!

 

[Scooterman]

change the carbon often as its collecting lots of bad stuff in the water. keep doing water changes. 10 gal a day depending on your tank size. just dont over do it.

I don't know where you get this from but you can change out almost 100% water if you do it right, I've done that just to get things cleared up many times over.
As far as carbon you can look at Boomer's forum, he has tons of Carbon information.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000918065819/http://www.animalnetwork.com/fish2/aqfm/1998/june/features/1/default.asp


http://web.archive.org/web/20030804230222/www.animalnetwork.com/fish2/aqfm/1997/jul/product/default.asp

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8731&highlight=carbon

 

[Boomer]

cyberdeth

You should be fine with the WC and GAC but I would strongly advise to monitor the ammonia for a couple of days.

 

[burning2nd]

Im with scooter.. bang out a 75-90% water change... and dOne..


Ive never ran carbon,

 

[mcdonaldjosh7]

Id still think running carbon would help clear up the water.

 

[cyberdeth]

Thanks for all of the replys!

I did a 70% water change over two days. The only thing I thought I lost (less the anemone) was my pipe coral. It went into protective mode within its' tubes, but they are all out now.

Got a new nem and mah clowns are happy again.

 

[Holygral]

Thanks for all of the replys!

I did a 70% water change over two days. The only thing I thought I lost (less the anemone) was my pipe coral. It went into protective mode within its' tubes, but they are all out now.

Got a new nem and mah clowns are happy again.

I would be more concerned why it died, so as not to repeat the process. Lighting, tank mates,water parameters age of the tank.