Welp, my 5g AIO tank cracked. I had a spare 10g so, I set it up, all the sand from the 5g, all the live rock, all the water and filled it up with 5g of nutri seawater. Tank is cloudy as hell and Im afraid to put the fish, corals and anemones in. What can i do? Will everything survive?
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Have you tested the water for ammonia or nitrates yet? Unfortunately whatever was settled into the Sandbed is now released and free floating in the water. How long was the other tank established? It may settle out, but a couple water changes surely wouldn't hurt.
Ideally, you would want to at least dunk or rinse the old rock off to remove any detritus settled in saltwater. The sand can be rinsed off although it will take a good bit of rinsing, or just replace the Sandbed when setting up a transfer tank. I understand the urgency of the crack and needing to make immediate transfer however so those may not have been viable options at the time.
Brew12
Electrical Gru
Where are your fish and anemones now? I would test for ammonia in an hour or 2 and make sure it doesn't spike before you add your fish. If your ammonia is fine, I wouldn't worry about it being cloudy. The ocean gets very cloudy during storms and the fish don't mind. It really is just a matter of how many nutrients you released into the system imo.
It would have been nice to leave all the old sand behind but it is a bit late now.
Was only established for about 4 months give or take. I havent tested the water yet. Im afraid of testing the water and if its bad, i wouldnt know what to do lol
For now everything is in a bucket. ****** part is, I went to the LFS to get the fish I had special ordered and came back and noticed the crack. They wont take him back nor hold him either.. so Im worried about this poor fish
For now everything is in a bucket. ****** part is, I went to the LFS to get the fish I had special ordered and came back and noticed the crack. They wont take him back nor hold him either.. so Im worried about this poor fish
Brew12
Electrical Gru
Sorry, got distracted. Make sure you keep the bucket heated and aerated while you wait for things in the new tank to stabilize.
Brew12
Electrical Gru
Test your water for ammonia (both the bucket and the new tank). It may not be as bad as you think.
brandolphjr
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Should be OK,,if you still have most of the original water that was left from the 5gallon...the sand will saddle down..(cloudyness).. That's the hard way to up grade to bigger tank..[emoji16]
I did happen to have some seachem prime on hand, so I added a little into the new tank. I could get some seachem stability, what do you think? And yeah this was sure one heck of a way to upgrade. Lol. I downgraded this tank from a 46 bow in the first place
Brew12
Electrical Gru
I wouldn't worry about adding Stability. The Prime is an excellent idea. You have plenty of nitrifying bacteria in your system. The Prime should help neutralize any ammonia spike that does occur. Great idea to add it!
Sorry on delay. Didn't mean to just answer the one question and disappear. Had work emergency I had to go handle.
bevo5
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I've never had fish bothered by the junk in the water after something like this. They would only be affected by the ammonia created by all of the junk breaking down. I would put the fish in the tank and test it every hour or so...just have new water ready to go. Worst case you have to drain some of the water and replace with good clean SW at the right temp/salinity. That will dilute the ammonia down.
Prime is also good.
But don't worry about the sediment in the water - it will clear up. Just keep an eye on the ammonia.
Prime is also good.
But don't worry about the sediment in the water - it will clear up. Just keep an eye on the ammonia.
