Janice
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- Joined
- Oct 15, 2016
- Location
- Mississauga
Colby and I are trying to deal with his 32G AIO Coraline biocube after his tank was sabotaged two weeks ago tomorrow. We are not 100% sure what the saboteur put into the tank-although since he only got to put 2/3 containers of it into the tank we could smell the remaining container, which smells like bleach. The saboteur, while not admitting that he did it, said it was chlorine. However that statement may have been made deliberately to mislead us.
All invertebrates and fish died, and many of our corals and anemones do not look like they will recover. Rightly or wrongly, I bought and put new snails and hermit crabs and a peppermint shrimp in the tank today to try to keep the tank clean while we try to see what we can rescue and give it some time.
Not knowing if, once Colby's 16G nano tank is up and running-he is taking it slowly, watching phosphates after cleaning rock with bleach and drying it out, so nothing but water and rock are in it so far, we should transfer any corals that did not die and the inverts into the small tank, and then completely take the 32G tank apart, get rid of sand, and bleach or do other treatment on live rock and start that tank as though it is brand new, or whether with constant water changes that is not necessary. Colby has been through so much with the 2 sabotages I would like to go the easiest route. Colby's 16G has only been running 2 weeks and is not yet stable to transfer anything over. Any advice is appreciated.
All invertebrates and fish died, and many of our corals and anemones do not look like they will recover. Rightly or wrongly, I bought and put new snails and hermit crabs and a peppermint shrimp in the tank today to try to keep the tank clean while we try to see what we can rescue and give it some time.
Not knowing if, once Colby's 16G nano tank is up and running-he is taking it slowly, watching phosphates after cleaning rock with bleach and drying it out, so nothing but water and rock are in it so far, we should transfer any corals that did not die and the inverts into the small tank, and then completely take the 32G tank apart, get rid of sand, and bleach or do other treatment on live rock and start that tank as though it is brand new, or whether with constant water changes that is not necessary. Colby has been through so much with the 2 sabotages I would like to go the easiest route. Colby's 16G has only been running 2 weeks and is not yet stable to transfer anything over. Any advice is appreciated.