Chemiclean Nuked tank!

[Knapp870]

In 48 hours chemiclean has almost ruined my entire tank. Sps are whiting out zoas may be ok but closed. Used 8 spoon fulls for a 75 gallon tank with 30 gallon sump. All I was trying to do was clean things a little, no major outbreak of anything! I'm absolutely sick

 

[helen ann]

Awwwww sorry!!!

 

[Knapp870]

I used it many years ago without issue from what I remember what the heck

 

[Chrisfish]

In 48 hours chemiclean has almost ruined my entire tank. Sps are whiting out zoas may be ok but closed. Used 8 spoon fulls for a 75 gallon tank with 30 gallon sump. All I was trying to do was clean things a little, no major outbreak of anything! I'm absolutely sick

Can you do a major water change to get rid of a portion of it? No expert just wondering.

 

[helen ann]

I honestly have no clue why or can I even advise, I don't run any chemicals in my tank, sorry.
I am sure someone with a lot more experience will chime in and assist.

 

[Knapp870]

Can you do a major water change to get rid of a portion of it? No expert just wondering.

Changed out 30 gallons last night and stuff still looks worse this morning

 

[Chrisfish]

#Reefsquad

 

[Chrisfish]

We'll see if we can get you some help.

 

[Dashiki]

Get some carbon running, set skimmer to run wet and change as much water as you can handle to save what you can.

In the future do not use things like chemiclean to solve an issue like cyano or just to clean things up its not how it would be done in the ocean and doesn't really solve any problems.

 

[Knapp870]

Put carbon in last night and skimmer is running. Going to throw another bag of carbon in

 

[Reeferdood]

Is your skimmer going nuts?
Also, if you are running carbon use a reactor...
Bags of carbon in the sump are not effective IMHO.

 

[Knapp870]

Is your skimmer going nuts?
Also, if you are running carbon use a reactor...
Bags of carbon in the sump are not effective IMHO.

It was last night but not this morning. Only reactor I have is running gfo at the moment

 

[Smotz]

maybe you got a bad batch? I've used it recently (once) as a final option and it was very effective.

 

[Knapp870]

Not sure if it was because it was old idk what the shelf life is.

 

[Jahalu]

I used cyanorx a few months ago and had a rough time with it (and I followed instructions completely) I lost a bunch of inverts and a bunch of sps tips lost tissue, just like yours. Good news is I didn't lose any colonies completely. Everything healed up after I did wc and carbon. I just had to trim dead tips. It was a very scary few days though.

 

[Brew12]

That is awful. Just went and looked at some reviews of the product and was saddened to see how many people had their tanks wiped out or at least had significant die-off from this product. Yet so many people love it that it gets a very high overall review score.

 

[steve&mari]

I also don't use or recommend as said it's not a actual fix. At this point all I know of is the wc and carbon I'd even probably swap the gfo to carbon right now till clearing up. Best of luck with rescuing as much as possible. Sorry this has happened to your reef. Keep us posted on it.

 

[Dashiki]

Dump the gfo and run the carbon in the reactor

 

[twilliard]

This is due to the lack of O2
In heavily stocked tanks it is absolutely critical to maintain O2 as it will drop suddenly from the respiration of coral.
Keep the skimmer running 100% and get an air-stone running ASAP.

 

[Knapp870]

How come PH doesn't drop?