Summit
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We had a small (2-3”) Imperator Angel die in our 210 gallon tank today. It started not looking great yesterday and was hiding underneath one of the rocks, today it moved underneath a different one and died. I’m 100% certain the rock did not crush it as we seated these rocks extremely well prior to adding sand and water to the tank.
Where it died and due to our rockscape, we absolutely cannot get it out. We’ve tried using a turkey baster aimed at the rock to blow it out, long forceps to try and grab it, and a long handled algae scrubber to try and fan it out from the rock, nothing has helped. Short of pulling all the rock out of the sand, and essentially breaking the rockscape down, is there anything we should do? Ammonia has remained at 0 currently and I’ll be checking it frequently. There’s not yet a clean up crew in the tank because we haven’t had a huge algae outbreak yet except for the diatom blooms and I didn’t want them to starve. I was considering going out and getting a startup crew tomorrow. Would that help any? Anything else we should do?
Where it died and due to our rockscape, we absolutely cannot get it out. We’ve tried using a turkey baster aimed at the rock to blow it out, long forceps to try and grab it, and a long handled algae scrubber to try and fan it out from the rock, nothing has helped. Short of pulling all the rock out of the sand, and essentially breaking the rockscape down, is there anything we should do? Ammonia has remained at 0 currently and I’ll be checking it frequently. There’s not yet a clean up crew in the tank because we haven’t had a huge algae outbreak yet except for the diatom blooms and I didn’t want them to starve. I was considering going out and getting a startup crew tomorrow. Would that help any? Anything else we should do?
