I got motor oil in the tank.... I’m gonna try and keep this as short as possible and provide as much info as could be needed to help find a potential solution.
I have a 1 year old 30gal half moon, mixed reef with a HOB filter. Roughly 30lbs or more of live rock, and 20lbs of sand maybe more. full of softy’s mainly, a few lps, with some new sps and lps frags I just received last Wednesday..
So the problem occurred when I decided to use a sledge hammer and chisel from the garage to break off my colony of clove polyps that was taking over the entire top of my tank. It wasn’t until after my hand had gone in the tank multiple times did I notice that my hand was covered in oil from the sledge hammer handle... so I started noticing things looking sad in the tank yesterday evening and that my royal gramma had died and the Xenia were retracting/dieing off. Today I got home from work and my pink spotted goby is dead and Xenia are down to stubs, frogspawn and duncun are completely retracted, and other corals are having varying issues starting to appear. Can I save my tank?
I was spit balling ideas with a friend and we came up with fresh water dipping the rocks and corals and dropping them in my 90 gallon but I’m afraid I’ll kill all the fish in my 90... my other thought was maybe doing 50% water changes every day or every other day? Idk but I do know I need to do my best to save the rest of my critters if possible!
Thanks in advance!
I have a 1 year old 30gal half moon, mixed reef with a HOB filter. Roughly 30lbs or more of live rock, and 20lbs of sand maybe more. full of softy’s mainly, a few lps, with some new sps and lps frags I just received last Wednesday..
So the problem occurred when I decided to use a sledge hammer and chisel from the garage to break off my colony of clove polyps that was taking over the entire top of my tank. It wasn’t until after my hand had gone in the tank multiple times did I notice that my hand was covered in oil from the sledge hammer handle... so I started noticing things looking sad in the tank yesterday evening and that my royal gramma had died and the Xenia were retracting/dieing off. Today I got home from work and my pink spotted goby is dead and Xenia are down to stubs, frogspawn and duncun are completely retracted, and other corals are having varying issues starting to appear. Can I save my tank?
I was spit balling ideas with a friend and we came up with fresh water dipping the rocks and corals and dropping them in my 90 gallon but I’m afraid I’ll kill all the fish in my 90... my other thought was maybe doing 50% water changes every day or every other day? Idk but I do know I need to do my best to save the rest of my critters if possible!
Thanks in advance!