Water change

[coolhandgoose]

Before I did a water change I blasted all my rocks for detritus and the bottom of the tank. It stirred up a ton of crap that I mostly tried to catch with a filter sock.

2 days after my water change things are starting to settle down in my tank. GSP was fully closed and now a few heads are popping out again. Other corals were fully closed but just starting to coming out again too.

Did I stir up too much crap when I did this? Should I try and blast the rocks more often to avoid build ups?

[FishyFishy!]

Having high flow and alternating patterns really helps this issue, as detritus will be less likely to settle.

If you feel there was too much, then blasting more often will help this situation for sure.

[gregzz4]

You say you blasted the bottom .. Do you have sand?
I'm wondering if you created some ammonia when you stirred things up, or if you have sand you disturbed some gasses such as hydrogen sulphate ?
Just some thoughts ...

Did you test your new water before using it? Alk ca and mag ..
Maybe your salt bucket is a bit out of whack ?

I'm sure things will turn around as you say they are starting to open up again

[coolhandgoose]

No I don't have sand, basically for that reason. I did test all the parameters when I mixed the water and had to adjust some.

I'm close to the bottom of the bucket. I also never knew you were supposed to roll a bucket around so maybe there's more of something now that I'm reaching the bottom.

All good thoughts, I'm just thinking there's lots of dead crap in the rocks that's going to take awhile to clear out with regular water changes.

[brisco]

how's your flow? It helps, as said above, to have flow pattern changes to avoid dead spots.

[coolhandgoose]

What do you mean flow changes? I have three power heads in there at the moment. I don't have a wave maker or anything, they are just in steady.

[brisco]

Yes, it is my understanding that pulsing the powerheads and changing up the flow pattern is very beneficial.