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I started a thread in the emergency threads the other day. I just transferred all of the content/livestock from a friend's tank to my tank last week. All was well, but ammonia started to skyrocket. Well, pretty much everything is dead now. Deaths included the CUC, 2 peppermint shrimp, 1 Skunk shrimp, 2 clowns, bristle star, dottyback, 3 damselfish, and decorator crab. I tried everything to stop the ammonia. I added prime, dormant bacteria, water change after water change but the ammonia levels just kept rising (and continue to rise). I have no idea what caused it. My question is, what do I do from here. Do I start over and let the tank cycle? Do I have to go through the whole tank and find all the little dead CUC members? I took out all the larger animals, but there are plenty of small ones in there. And most important of all, how do I find out what caused the initial spike? The live rock and livestock were in my friend's tank for over 8 months. I would think it should have been stable. I don't really know what to do from here.
P.S. I don't know if it's worth mentioning that I also have some small hammer and frogspawn frags in the tank. They're still alive which I am very surprised about.
Tank Info:
50 gallon (36x18x18) display
20 gallon sump
Reef Octopus xp 1000 sss protein skimmer
750 GPH return
45 pounds live rock (transferred form previous tank)
40 pounds live sand (new)
P.S. I don't know if it's worth mentioning that I also have some small hammer and frogspawn frags in the tank. They're still alive which I am very surprised about.
Tank Info:
50 gallon (36x18x18) display
20 gallon sump
Reef Octopus xp 1000 sss protein skimmer
750 GPH return
45 pounds live rock (transferred form previous tank)
40 pounds live sand (new)