Reef Tank Lost To Sandy

[acontrac]

Like many others, I lost power for several days -- only to return home and see my reef tank completely totaled. I'm in the process of cleaning it out now and getting rid of all the dead fish and coral -- and have a question concerning the live rock.

I have about 100lbs of live rock in the tank. Is it ok to keep that? Or did that "die" as well, and needs to be tossed/replaced?

One other question, if the live rock needs to be replaced and I get aleady cured live rock to replace it -- how soon can I put new corals and fish in the tank?


Thanks in advance for your help. I'm a new reefer -- and this has thrown me for a loop.

 

[piranhapat]

Your live rock should fine. Along LR stay wet . I won't worry about it.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

i dont know how much alive your existing live rock is gonna be after this but if you had new live rock with new water i would give it a few weeks to balance out and check parameters when your starting over also feed the tank in the meanwhile.

 

[Dre]

The rock is fine, some of the corals might be still alive as well...

 

[Cibo]

you may have more alive than you kow keep the rock and coral do water changes to get the levels down and keep you fingers crossed see what come back!!