dieoff after disasterous tank/house move

[turbo2oh]

Good news, the new house is great! Bad news.. I had a somewhat disastrous tank move. I had to store my rock/corals/fish at a relatives house. I lost all my fish and my rock/coral were stored in closed buckets at room temp for 5 days (this was not the plan). I opened one and it smelled like death. My only corals were a few softies/LPS. They're not looking too good but its hard to tell.

I'm currently setting up my tank in the new house. My heads kinda spinning right now but I want to know the best approach before I make any rash decisions. I'm mixing the new saltwater in my tank currently, hooking up lights, etc. I'm about to add my new sandbed since I was planning to replace the sandbed regardless.

A few questions:
1) Should I just rise the rocks and drop them in the new tank and hope they don't smell up my whole house?
2) Should I just toss everything and start fresh?
3) Do I just need to treat the rocks as dead at this point and put them in some kind of closed container for weeks?


Any help is appreciated!

 

[Arlen nemeth]

Good news, the new house is great! Bad news.. I had a somewhat disastrous tank move. I had to store my rock/corals/fish at a relatives house. I lost all my fish and my rock/coral were stored in closed buckets at room temp for 5 days (this was not the plan). I opened one and it smelled like death. My only corals were a few softies/LPS. They're not looking too good but its hard to tell.

I'm currently setting up my tank in the new house. My heads kinda spinning right now but I want to know the best approach before I make any rash decisions. I'm mixing the new saltwater in my tank currently, hooking up lights, etc. I'm about to add my new sandbed since I was planning to replace the sandbed regardless.

A few questions:
1) Should I just rise the rocks and drop them in the new tank and hope they don't smell up my whole house?
2) Should I just toss everything and start fresh?
3) Do I just need to treat the rocks as dead at this point and put them in some kind of closed container for weeks?


Any help is appreciated!

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[turbo2oh]

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Should I just put them outside to cook/die off? Is putting them in a separate container with heated saltwater is any different than just adding them to the tank at this point?

 

[Arlen nemeth]

Should I just put them outside to cook/die off? Is putting them in a separate container with heated saltwater is any different than just adding them to the tank at this point?

Im not too sure but i youd have to wait a while and if u didn do it in the tank youd have to do alot more water changes to clean the filer and stuff

 

[TriggerFinger]

Congrats on the new house! Sorry the tank move didn’t work out. I would try to scrape/rinse off as much dead as I could and then cycle the rock in a separate container; it’s probably going to smell pretty bad.