- Location
- Long Island
Well, to make a long story short I updated my tank and lost 3 urchins, 3 fish, 2 shrimp, a starfish, most of my clean up crew, and all but one coral. : (
Tank of Death
- Thread starter jcolon2
- Start date
- Location
- East Stroudsburg, PA
How? are your parameters all good? and did you have everything cycled properly? Sorry for your loss Justin
- Location
- Far Rockaway
What do you mean by updated of do you mean upgraded
- Location
- long island
what happened to the tak what did you do that you up dated it or up graded it
- Location
- long island
He signed off, I am going to call him tommorw to find out
- Location
- Wappingers Falls NY
Sorry to hear about your loss- If you need some corals just ask.
- Location
- Long Island
I didn't upgrade the tank but I had to do a large water change in order to lift the tank onto the new stand. I am not doing corals for a while or at least until I can master the water quality. I am checking my parameters now. I did not use any epoxies, or anything. I never even introduced the homemade structures into the water because I did not like them. Nothing new was introduced to the tank. I keep my salt level at 1.023. And someone the salt level dropped very low while conducting my water change. I don't know what went wrong. But I think that did it.
- Location
- long island
Did you check the water in the bucket if you have 1.023 in the tank then the bucket of water should read 1.25 to keet the salt up, the temp of the water should keep up with the tank or close to it. You might have ensued a mini cycle.
- Location
- Long Island, 11769
You said you had to do a large water change to move your tank onto its new stand. Did you drain all of the mature water, discard it, and then replace it with freshly mixed SW? If that's what you did, it caused a cycle.
- Location
- Flushing, NY
I'm less concerned about a 100% water change, but more concerned about how long the rock was exposed to air and possibly drying out during the process. especially if there are sponges or other living organisms on there. Changing water itself shouldn't cause a cycle unless there are dying matter in the water.
- Location
- long island
Ming has a point
- Location
- Long Island
I used about 20 percent of the old water, and then new water : (
- Location
- Long Island
The rock was put in a bucket with an air filter and heater.
- Location
- long island
If you need any thing to get you beack up and started just ask, I have told you think before I am always willing to help out.
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