Ashr's Red Sea Max 66g mixerd reef

[Timbits]

Originally Posted by Salty23

wow beautiful growth, wish my rsm would fill in nicely like that soon!
did you switch to LEDS completely?

All T5s LOL

[ashr]

New update:

[bkelly]

nice Job Andrew tank looks really great

[ashr]

Thanks

The corals I got from you are doing great. Didnt get any pictures this time but here is an old one.

You would be proud haha




It did brown out a bit as it grew out of the direct light but I have moved it and the colors are coming back

[ashr]

So I moved over the weekend. Took time to take the tank down.. about 6 hours or so. Bagged all the corals. Live rock with in bins (with wet paper towl) and all the fish were in buckets...

****ty thing is I guess I had more die off on my rocks than I thought. After setting my tank up around 10pm the next morning was a disaster.. the house smelt like death and I knew something had gone wrong.

In all all but two fish lived.. and the tank was milky white.
Due to the murky water I could not see my SPS melting away..
All in all I lost 95% of my tank... some of the nicest, 4 years of growth and some of the best SPS I have seen around. I felt terrible.

Now I must rebuild.. but where to start? Do I start over with SPS or try something new like a predator tank? Any thoughts on where to go from here?

Thanks for listening.. It's been a rough couple days.

[KPG007]

Wow, that's horrible. For everything to go at once...what do you think caused it? Low / High temp? Did the sand get stirred up on the bottom (spike in nitrates / phosphates)?

Don't let it get you down. I've lost so much coral, but you keep plugging away. Set your tank up again, let it cycle (shouldn't take to long), and start filling it up.

I'll be happy to donate some frags to the restart. I know at least a few frags in your set up were from me

[Myka]

I found out about this from your new tank build thread. Sooo sorry to hear about your tank crash.

[Bblinks]

Originally Posted by ashr

So I moved over the weekend. Took time to take the tank down.. about 6 hours or so. Bagged all the corals. Live rock with in bins (with wet paper towl) and all the fish were in buckets...

****ty thing is I guess I had more die off on my rocks than I thought. After setting my tank up around 10pm the next morning was a disaster.. the house smelt like death and I knew something had gone wrong.

In all all but two fish lived.. and the tank was milky white.
Due to the murky water I could not see my SPS melting away..
All in all I lost 95% of my tank... some of the nicest, 4 years of growth and some of the best SPS I have seen around. I felt terrible.

Now I must rebuild.. but where to start? Do I start over with SPS or try something new like a predator tank? Any thoughts on where to go from here?

Thanks for listening.. It's been a rough couple days.

OMFG, sorry to hear buddy, I had the same thing happen to me when I transferred everything in the 210 to the 300. It hurts but we can rebuild it, don't lose heart buddy!