Skinz's big boy tank.

[ingtar_shinowa]

I'm telling you bud, from one long time reefkeeper to another. Use chemiclean. I fought for ages after the whole bobit worm take-down to fix my tank. Only chemiclean helped. Ill never, ever hesitate to use it. I tried starving my fish, black outs, 20% water changes siphoning out the slime every 2-3 days for a month, the Zoevit cyanno stuff, bacteria dosing. I even vacuumed my sandbed into a stack of 7 filtersocks every day for 2-3 weeks.

PS: I ran two air pumps feeding under my mp40s and ran my skimmer full boar during the treatment.

 

[prsnlty]

That's good, I hope it continues to get better

 

[prsnlty]

Hey Chris, how's the tank doing?

 

[skinz78]

Terrible... About to give up on it to be honest.

I've been far too busy getting ready for the new baby that's coming via C section this next Friday.

 

[spspirate]

Hang in there Chris! It's a beautiful display of corals!

 

[prsnlty]

Oh I'm sorry about the tank

But congratulations on the baby, I hope it goes well. Please let us know how it goes

 

[Saltgator]

Congrats on the baby bud. Sorry the tank is giving you trouble. Been there...still there!

 

[skinz78]

Thanks, I'm in the middle of a 55g water change now....

 

[Saltgator]

Thanks, I'm in the middle of a 55g water change now....

Yep. I went back to basics. Steady WC, changing out carbon and gfo every 2 weeks. No more chasing for me

 

[skinz78]

I misjudged how much water I took out.... LOL I'm about 10g shy of full right now.

I plan on setting GFO back on the tank today as well, possibly carbon too.

 

[skinz78]

This is what it looks like after the water change...

 

[Saltgator]

I miss judge my takeout almost every time. Pics almost look my WC drum and system, lol. Any idea what is causing issues for ya?

 

[prsnlty]

Wow. I'm sorry this happened to you. Did you lose all your clams? Looks like a lot of coral are still surviving How about your sticks? From what I can see on my phone it looks like at least some are living.

 

[skinz78]

I miss judge my takeout almost every time. Pics almost look my WC drum and system, lol. Any idea what is causing issues for ya?

I think the root cause of the issue is I tried Nualgi and had bad results. That coupled with work being crazy and the baby coming I haven't had much tank time.

Wow. I'm sorry this happened to you. Did you lose all your clams? Looks like a lot of coral are still surviving How about your sticks? From what I can see on my phone it looks like at least some are living.

Yep, the clams were the first to go. I've lost about 40% of my SPS, the Monti's are doing great through all of this though.

 

[prsnlty]

I think I would've cried for days and days.... On the plus side, at least it wasn't a total loss. And I know you can get this tank back to it's gorgeous self again soon

 

[Saltgator]

Sorry about the clams. I lost a 2 inch a month ago and just about gave them up. Glad the sps is trying and still hanging in there. You'll be back to 100% very shortly.

 

[afamousjohnson]

It is so easy to get tanked with a tank.lol that is why I run a mixed reef - in the case a certain type hits the fan I have fall back directions to go with. Been having issues down south too. Lost a couple of my fav's over the past 2 months from colonies to frags and as usual - cant put my finger on it. Tank is still lookin good thru these eyes bro - hang in there n gratz on the baby - me and the boss lady will be trying this year and I can only imagine what that will do to my tank routines.lol

Sorry to hear about the clams - know thats your thing - u got salt in the veins tho.

 

[ritter6788]

Should have stuck with LEDs.

J/k of course. Sorry for your troubles. I know you'll bounce back and get it right soon!

 

[skinz78]

LED's suck LOL.....

 

[prsnlty]

I flanked mine with 4 ATI T5s and going to add 2 more because they weren't enough... The LEDs come on first and go off last, my corals don't start opening untill the T5s come on. Hmmmmm