KingOfJericho
coral hoarder
- Location
- Westchester, NY
This may be really basic but a question none-the-less. I recently (3 weeks ago) moved and brought my 54 corner reef with me. I had done this once before by draining about 2/3 of the water into a Brute and placing all of the rock flat on the bottom to remain fully submerged. I then did the reverse on the other end and put the same water back into the tank. I didn't lose a single fish, clam, snail, crab, shrimp, or coral... not one thing. I did this again 3 weeks ago and lost most of my fish, 2 large snails, and my clam. The only thing I did differently this time is that I topped it off (<5 Gal) with mixed tap-water at my new place. I believe the problem is the tap water because the second I poured it in the fish started breathing heavy and most died (all but 2 clowns). I hooked up my R/O and made a full batch of water and did a 50% water change and everything literally started blooming like spring in a time lapse video. Within 2 days all of my zoas were back out and everything seems back to normal. I even purchased a few new fish and all seem to be happier than ever and are eating like pigs. I guess the question is what the hell could have happened?
The second part of my question is this: Many of my rocks have some residual hair algae from when I only had access to tap water. It looks kind of ugly. What I did with one of my rocks (I have about 65lbs of rock but only 5 rocks) is take it into a bucket of the dirty water during a water change and scrubbed it with a scrub brush enough to get the algae off but leave the coraline algae that covers almost 90% of them. It looks fantastic and I have zero coraline die-off on that rock. My question is whether I can do this to the rest of my rocks without making my levels go bonkers. Thanks in advance for your help!
The second part of my question is this: Many of my rocks have some residual hair algae from when I only had access to tap water. It looks kind of ugly. What I did with one of my rocks (I have about 65lbs of rock but only 5 rocks) is take it into a bucket of the dirty water during a water change and scrubbed it with a scrub brush enough to get the algae off but leave the coraline algae that covers almost 90% of them. It looks fantastic and I have zero coraline die-off on that rock. My question is whether I can do this to the rest of my rocks without making my levels go bonkers. Thanks in advance for your help!