Tank Crash Anemones

[Huskymaniac]

Have a 20 gallon lagoon that was loaded with RBTA's and 3 nosestripe skunks clowns. Tank was running for 3 years. 4 days ago I had a mass anemone spawn event that crashed the tank. Lost one of the skunks and now all the anemones are melting. None are open or fully inflated. Some are laying on the sand bed and melting. Tank water is still cloudy and I am doing water changes. Is there any hope. What should I do. Should I cipro the dying anemones or is it a waste. Break down the tank and start over? Losing battle at this point and extremely frustrated.

 

[BasementBox]

75% water change. Run carbon. Remove what’s dead.

 

[Huskymaniac]

75% water change. Run carbon. Remove what’s dead.

Been doing that daily. Not working.

 

[OrionN]

Removing everything that is dead of course. Watch the sand bed if any. Sand bed are often full of life. Dead stuff in the sand bed will leach nutrient to the water "forever" Consider remove the sand bed if you have one. The way your tank crash, I think you have the sand bed. under the rock is where a lot of the life, no dead worms. Get these out.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Have a 20 gallon lagoon that was loaded with RBTA's and 3 nosestripe skunks clowns. Tank was running for 3 years. 4 days ago I had a mass anemone spawn event that crashed the tank. Lost one of the skunks and now all the anemones are melting. None are open or fully inflated. Some are laying on the sand bed and melting. Tank water is still cloudy and I am doing water changes. Is there any hope. What should I do. Should I cipro the dying anemones or is it a waste. Break down the tank and start over? Losing battle at this point and extremely frustrated.

As stated with water change and carbon, do 10% water changes daily for next 10 days and monitor ammonia and nitrate levels with reliable test kits

 

[Huskymaniac]

Should I chuck the anemones that are non longer able to stick? Most look like they are starting to disintegrate.

 

[Huskymaniac]

Can I try cipro in a bucket to see if I can revive them?

 

[OrionN]

A picture would worth 1000 words.

 

[Huskymaniac]

A picture would worth 1000 words.

First 2 are ones I have in a bucket. Was going to flush them. Last one is a few that are still in the tank.

 

[OrionN]

I would get them clean optimal water and let the recovered they don’t look too bad.

 

[Huskymaniac]

I would get them clean optimal water and let the recovered they don’t look too bad.

Should I just move whatever I can to a make shift QT until things in display get better? I can setup a 5 gallon tank QT with clean water.

 

[OrionN]

I would remove all the livestock out to QT and let your tank recycle, which is what I thinkns going on. DSB crash is bad, it will never recover unless you remove the DSB
Do you have a sand bed? If you do, that is the source of your problem. Sand bed, especially 4 year old a full of life, until it crash, then it is full of dead stuff.

 

[Huskymaniac]

I would remove all the livestock out to QT and let your tank recycle, which is what I thinkns going on. DSB crash is bad, it will never recover unless you remove the DSB
Do you have a sand bed? If you do, that is the source of your problem. Sand bed, especially 4 year old a full of life, until it crash, then it is full of dead stuff.

No DSB. Have a sand bed and its maybe an inch deep.

 

[OrionN]

Remove everything dead that you can especially under the rock and let it recycle. Add the livestock after the tank cycle. Like just a new tank.

 

[Huskymaniac]

Sounds good. Will get as many as the anemones out of the tank. Can I leave the clowns in for now? They seem okay at the moment.

 

[Huskymaniac]

Remove everything dead that you can especially under the rock and let it recycle. Add the livestock after the tank cycle. Like just a new tank.

Should I also add something like biospira or some bacteria in bottle?

 

[OrionN]

You don’t need to. You got Lenny of bacterial. The problem is raw nutrients overload
Monitor the ammonia and nitrite.

 

[Huskymaniac]

You don’t need to. You got Lenny of bacterial. The problem is raw nutrients overload
Monitor the ammonia and nitrite.

Should I use something like prime or.ammolock?

 

[Nano_Man]

Good luck going forward. Things will settle again.Bta can be harder than people think .

 

[Huskymaniac]

These are all the nems that were on the sand band looking like they were about to die. There were about 5 left in the tank that I left. They were still attached to the rock and wall. Just deflated. Light for the QT will be here on Sunday. Should I try and get something sooner?