Rock slide

[Anonymous]

Today at about 8pm when I was doing my water change the whole right side of my aqua scape came crashing down. I guess I bumped it just the wrong way. I just got my hand out the tank. I was not able to do anything really useful. That side is just a mess. I was able to get the corals uncovered and right side up and that is about it. I was to pissed at myself to think things through. Lots of broken corals and lots of stressed frags. Not real sure what the out come is going to be. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

 

[Anonymous]

:evil:

Sorry to hear it. I've been there before.

 

[Anonymous]

I did that once shortly after I set up my 75G. It sucked. Don't recall losing anything though. Hopefully, you won't either.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

There are rockslides in natural reefs all the time.
Just think of it as making your system more natural for the inhabitants.

Everything will come out just fine, and you have an oppertunity to aquascape.

 

[metalac]

Is there safe way to secure the rocks together? Maybe attach them to each other with some silicon or something like that?

 

[Anonymous]

Now that I have had a chance to think about what happened I now know what I did to make it happen. I was bubble algae harvesting and pushed on one of the bottom rocks. It slid out from underthe pile ant that caused it to fall. Things looked better this morning before I left the house. Now I just need to figure out how to get the pile back up since I have quite a few piece that are grown on to the rocks that fell.

 

[Anonymous]

Aw man, hope everything survives!

 

[Anonymous]

Some things are still looking pissed. I think the best thing to do is to let it be for a few days.

 

[Anonymous]

Is there safe way to secure the rocks together? Maybe attach them to each other with some silicon or something like that?

some people drill holes in the rock and secure them with acrylic rods. I used epoxy to join pieces of rock. Not as clean looking as using acrylic rods.

 

[pcardone]

It will probably look better after you fix it. go get a couple new rocks. those plate rocks(tongen?) have little tables for holding stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

All restacked. It does not look bad. The new pile is more squat. It will look better once thing grow in. I'll get some after the crash photos soon.