My buddy has a 130 gallon tank(Red Sea Max S500). Probably 80-90 pounds of live rock. 2 inch sand bed.
His tank is 4 months old and everything, minus the fish, has died in it.
His parameters are stable and not too high or too low. Except his phosphate has never been above 9PPB, which to me is extremely low for feeding daily. I think he has around 5 fish, maybe a total of 10 inches all together.
We figured out that when he installed his RODI unit, he did not add the waste water outlet and has been running straight sink water for 4 months.
His TDS says 29 when testing his freshly made RO water.
We are planning to quarantine his fish and empty out all water and start over. Does anyone know if we would need to do anything to the live rock or sand? Would we need to do anything to treat them or should rinsing them in good RO water do the trick?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
His tank is 4 months old and everything, minus the fish, has died in it.
His parameters are stable and not too high or too low. Except his phosphate has never been above 9PPB, which to me is extremely low for feeding daily. I think he has around 5 fish, maybe a total of 10 inches all together.
We figured out that when he installed his RODI unit, he did not add the waste water outlet and has been running straight sink water for 4 months.
His TDS says 29 when testing his freshly made RO water.
We are planning to quarantine his fish and empty out all water and start over. Does anyone know if we would need to do anything to the live rock or sand? Would we need to do anything to treat them or should rinsing them in good RO water do the trick?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.