Everything is Dying

I don't dose and do rely on the water changes to replenish elements.

My water mixing station is set up so it does mix a day in advance with pumps and heaters and I make sure it matches salinity and temp before I change it. I have it sent up so water changes are pretty easy and slick.

I know each bucket can be different, but problem started when I was 3/4 through a bucket, so it wasn't a new bucket and before a use a bucket I mix it up so it should be pretty uniform throughout the bucket.

The flatworm solution does say to do a water change, but it also says if the flatworms don't die, add another half of the dosage and wait it out some more. So, that's what I did as the flatworms didn't die. I did do a water change, but it was several hrs after dosing and then the next day too. I was thinking the water change was to get rid of the toxins from the flatworms which is what I read, but thinking about it now, maybe its to get rid of the chemical itself so it does stay too long in the tank and wipe out the good bacteria. It's just weird at how fast it went down. It was really everything good when I went to bed and gone the next day.



Edited by Hogie - March 04 2015 at 11:44am

Honestly my best guess is the flatworms dying off and the lack of carbon. Think your tank should recover quickly now that you've added some carbon.

If you want phosban or more carbon I have plenty at my place.

Good thinkin' Krazie! Didn't even think about that at all haha.

It could affect both. High CO2 would cause low PH which would make corals not very happy. Low Oxygen levels would stress fish more than corals but would still affect both.

Well I got the corals out and housed in another tank (a huge thanks and shout out to Kevin for letting take over his frag tank). I had another thought. I got a different glue and glued down a bunch of frags and it was a few days later everything was when everything went bad. Could it be the glue?

Loctite ultra super glue gel. I've used the Loctite super glue gel (normal blue one) for yrs without a problem, but they just replaced thatproduct with a new one that supposedly has better gel control and they call it the ultra and now comes in a black container.

Good discussion.

Nothing...I've heard a lot of horror stories about cleaners and such, so we're very cautious about that.

I'll get a pic of the sump later today. It does have any sand in it, but does have a bunch of live/rubble rock. I have chaeto and red graciliaria in it and it's been growing well. I flip the chaeto about once a week. There are a lot of pods in the system both in the display and sump as well as bristle worms and spaghetti worms. The live rock is covered with those mini feather dusters. I think it's Atlantic live rock because it also has a bunch of these little tiny anenomes on it (not aphasia or majanos) nut the don't seem to be a problem. It also has a bunch of white small tubular sponges and some other kind of white sponge that grows on the underside of the rocks. The skimmer is an eshopp skimmer but I'm not sure what ever model. I run it pretty wet and it pulls out 1/2 to 3/4" a day. I usually run it every other day.

One quick question, how often do I need to change out the carbon in the bag?

Update?