Do I need a tank shutdown?!
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najer
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More information about your water quality, light and filtration would help please and a couple of pics?
sternicus
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To me, it sounds like a shutdown might be your best bet. With that many ailments it will take a while to correct what’s going on. Some of those things don’t have to do with the others so you have multiple problems
uhgster1
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Don’t shut it down just yet. If everything but the pests are dead just turn off the lights and let it run without feeding it. Get some peppermint shrimp and a harlequin or two and let them get their chomps on. By the time they’re done you’re going to have a nice clean cycled tank. It’ll give you time to get your parameters dialed in too. If you don’t know what caused the issues in the first place you might repeat the same mistake again.
W1ngz
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Pests aside - your best bet for those might be to pull all the rocks and leave them in the sun for a few days. There are things that eat the problems you have, but if you're having trouble keeping things alive, we might not want to go there. Before going too far...
I think there's some value in keeping it running for a while to try and learn what is wrong to avoid the same mistake when you start it up again.
Full set of tank parameters, size/volume, lighting, maintenance routine and every test number you can get will be a good start.
I think there's some value in keeping it running for a while to try and learn what is wrong to avoid the same mistake when you start it up again.
Full set of tank parameters, size/volume, lighting, maintenance routine and every test number you can get will be a good start.
bluprntguy
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If you are willing and able to quarantine going forward, a tank shutdown may be a good idea. If you aren’t going to quarantine fish and inverts, you are just going to get those pests (and more) in the future and a tank shutdown is unlikely to help much.
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You shouldnt really have high nitrites in the system (other than possibly very low levels being detected), and we could really do with having a full test set of water parameters and pictures to help you decide. Including ammonia.
A restart might help, but to learn you need to understand what’s happening now, so it doesn’t happen again especially loosing fish which are relatively hardy compared to many corals as far as water parameters are concerned
asterina starfish can be removed manually fairly easy (I know!) and harlequin shrimps are effective but I wouldn’t recommend one at the moment with your troubles.
We can all try and help you decide
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I wouldnt shut down.. Get a QT tank.. but the corals and fish in it.. And id do hyposalinity to kill off every little pest in the tank while keeping your bacteria alive. Then dip the corals and try again
In your other thread on the subject we listed a thread that shows actual reworks getting ran, what's your take on that
The offers here are the same as the other thread too, some are for takedown some aren't, that other thread had work examples/ before and afters of the reset showing how your tank will look afterwards, are you going to run that method
The offers here are the same as the other thread too, some are for takedown some aren't, that other thread had work examples/ before and afters of the reset showing how your tank will look afterwards, are you going to run that method
