Now I am selling my Tank (fresh water setup)

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by DOO-E

I stuck the rock in freshwater and scooped all the little shrimp and my bristol worm out of the container and put them in my tank. I then washed the rock throughly with vinagar and water. So the rock is clean.

Holy cow I would not have done that, doo-e Now you are going to have to re-cycle the whole lot of rock. I'd say you're in for at least 6 weeks to get the nitrifying bacteria back where it could sustain even a clean up crew. The shrimp and bristleworm are probably dead from the FW

Now that you have done this, it cannot be undone, so you must be very patient while your rock re-establishes itself. If I had done what you have done (heaen help me), these are the steps I would follow:

- put rock in tank with heater, powerhead(s), new salt water.
- have your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate test kits, along with a note pad, out where you can use them frequently. Whenever you test for any of these toxins, note date and test results.
- when ammonia and nitrite are both at 0 ppm, I would add a little food to the tank, then test for ammonia and nitrite in a day or two. If you have detectable ammonia or nitrite, you will need to cycle the rock longer. Repeat this step every 3-4 days for as long as there is detectable ammonia or nitrite. When ammonia or nitrite are not detectable, I would deem your rock cycled.
- you can do water changes if you like during re-cycling, but I think it's a bit of a waste of salt. RO water, time and energy. I would do two or three 60% water changes at the end of the above steps before adding fish, snails, or any living thing at all.

Originally Posted by DOO-E

I just want to get something in the tank to keep the filter seeded.

Believe me, there is now enough dead stuff on your rock to keep your filter seeded

Originally Posted by DOO-E

The Cause of the crash was ich from the Angel. Ich is persent in all tanks so its hard to get rid of anyway unless you have sterolizer.

Ich has a particular life cycle. If the tank had just been left fallow for 6 weeks, without the freshwater wash and vinegar thing, your tank would have been fine, unless new fish introduced ich to it. Now, though, you have killed most if not everything on your rock and starting from scratch may take longer than 6 weeks

BTW, I'm not certain that your cleaning regime has definitely killed the ich, though it might have. Ich would still be in your sandbed, so you will still have to leave the tank fallow for 6 weeks anyway, even if your rock re-cycles before then.

Take it easy, man And PLEASE stop calling bristleworms bristol worms