When to pull the plug/restart?

[Dearth]

Water change and wait it sounds like with pod activity the tank is recovering sometimes doing less is better than dong more

But then again redoing the tank is also an excuse to try a new aquascape

[mseepman]

Have you done any testing on parameters? Sometimes on Nanos I find things get out of wack and then we do big water changes which fixes the problem but maybe a little quickly for our inhabitants to be happy with.

I think patience will pay off with this, especially if pods are back. Maybe a small fish would help as those corals tend to like certain nutrients in their environment.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by mseepman

Have you done any testing on parameters? Sometimes on Nanos I find things get out of wack and then we do big water changes which fixes the problem but maybe a little quickly for our inhabitants to be happy with.

I think patience will pay off with this, especially if pods are back. Maybe a small fish would help as those corals tend to like certain nutrients in their environment.

No I haven't done any parameter testing. As I assumed the problem was likely mostly chemical I figured a bunch of water changes would do the trick. My problem now, is with the reintroduction of the corals. Two days and they're back to square one, all pinchy faced and unhappy looking. And this is after at least 6 FULL waterchanges. I'm wondering if the rock is going to leach some sort of undesirables forever or what.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Dearth

But then again redoing the tank is also an excuse to try a new aquascape

LOL are you saying my aquascaping could use some work?

[Dearth]

Originally Posted by christyf5

LOL are you saying my aquascaping could use some work?

Brad made me do it

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Dearth

Brad made me do it

LOL! Jerk.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by christyf5

LOL! Jerk.

Whoa, nothing to do with me. I did laugh when I read it though...hehe

[spit.fire]

Take the sand out, big water chance and everything should be fixed

[sumpfinfishe]

Well i think it looks pretty good(minus the elephant stool aquscape lol) and no Brad didn't make me say that but i couldn't resist

I think you need to just let the tank slowly come back and with pods coming back is a great sign. Add a cheap fish or two and get some well seeded sand from someone to help give your sand bed a bit of a boost. I would also add a small hang on container to the back wall with some chaeto or other macro algae. I would do 20% changes now as it looks pretty good. Also maybe setup a hidden camera near by to make sure nobody is playing with the tank lol.

[gregzz4]

I agree. Test your parameters. Maybe your salt is imbalanced and it threw things out of balance, or at least changed them quickly enough to PO everything on top of the possible chemical contamination.

Are you running carbon? If not, maybe do it for a week or so ...