It’s full of live rock water sand corals clownfish watchman goby snowflake eel two mollys coral beauty puffer fish. It’s completely established.
Replacing an old one. So the only way to glue is with the tank drained?Is it replacing an existing overflow? Are you going to drill a new hole? Just curious I suppose as it doesn't pertain to gluing... I would do as suggested above tho
Ah. I don't know but I know what it takes to do it dry I can't imagine doing it in a running system
I take it you and Chuck still aren't talking.
I didn’t even think to rinse it that was my problem. I added some carbon and some seagel to try and help. How long do you think it will take for the water to be healthy?
I have a diatomacious earth filter and a Hang On Tank Magnum (~20 year old Hot magnum a buddy gave me and the last VOrtex filter ever made and sold new) that I throw on a tank when things like this happen. They could probably get the water visually cleaned up in a couple of hours but not knowing what was in the sandbed it is a wild guess how long it might take with just a skimmer and socks working? The reason folk are suggesting a water change and rinsing the sand by removing it from the tank and "rip cleaning" it until it makes no dust or dirt flying around when it goes back in is that both actions remove the accumulated funk from the tank so they are not in the equation for health vs. water quality that is unknown to all of us at this time. If it has settled in the tank it will likely form a film that gets remobilized into a cloud when a fish swims by. Need to remove that. In the wild, storm surge sweeps it into the depths or into the dirty side of the lagoon where not much grows that looks like hard coral.
