Throwing in the towel?

[Pete polyp]

Lol..... if it was only that simple. None of those work with this tank

 

[jetmaker]

It should I do run a uv steralizer where a lot don't. But I would say start back with the easy corals you like then build back up. Should be like that with any tank. And I wish you luck.

 

[jetmaker]

I don't keep sps because of the same problems that caused your crash

 

[Pete polyp]

It should I do run a uv steralizer where a lot don't. But I would say start back with the easy corals you like then build back up. Should be like that with any tank. And I wish you luck.

Been using uv for 5 months now

 

[jetmaker]

Been using uv for 5 months now

Kewl. And good luck getting this tank back together you been in this 14 yrs I think you can do it. Remember kiss system.

 

[Pete polyp]

Kewl. And good luck getting this tank back together you been in this 14 yrs I think you can do it. Remember kiss system.

Yep. I wish I would have never put a sump in this build.

 

[jetmaker]

Yep. I wish I would have never put a sump in this build.

I have a trigger ruby 36s fuge I love it works awesome

 

[Spiderguardnano]

Hey Pete what rock is that

 

[Pete polyp]

Tukani

 

[Davesgt]

Glad your not giving up man. Last year I had my nano which had been running smooth for 9 years crash on me for no reason other than I found a handful of stinkbugs trapped in my filtration

 

[Pete polyp]

I wonder if all the Japanese beetles that find their way into the tank could be contributing.

 

[Davesgt]

I wonder if all the Japanese beetles that find their way into the tank could be contributing.

Not sure but I tested my water numerous times and it came out normal, so I sent it off to my cousin who does water testing for a water plant and he found some chemical traces that he could not identify, so I assumed with all the stinkbug that had to be it

 

[Davesgt]

When I came home to it my tank was milky white and had slimmed up from all the coral death. the only way I could straighten it back out was to do a 100% water change and ran cuprisorb and heavy carbon for a week just to make sure anything in the sand leeching was out

 

[WVReefJunkie]

Kalk reactors can suck, I run one on my 220 gallon tank. I had a issue a couple weeks ago when I was out of town on business. I was trying to instruct my wife how to bypass the reactor till I get home, and she took the discharge tubing out of the reactor and installed it into the input side. You know what happens from there, the reactor drained into my sump. The only thing that saved me was it was drained into 289 gallons total water volume. I have noticed some of my sps pieces lately are showing tissue loss on them. I know my mishap wasnt as bad as your incident but hang in there. One thing you could do in the future if you have your ato plumbed through your reactor is to get a controller and set a redundacy to shut it off if levels get to high.

 

[Pete polyp]

I took the reactor offline about a month ago because it was backwashing lime into the fresh water. I'm now using a bucket with premixed limewater so it doesn't matter anymore

 

[WVReefJunkie]

You have to put a check valve inline

 

[brandon429]

WV you have dropped lighting to pre-acclimation phase right-you prob have just checking. the number one best idea shy of a full water change for that kind of insult is a drop in lighting, as in not relying much on photosynthesis now vs heterotrophic feeding to rehab

 

[Pete polyp]

You have to put a check valve inline

It's got a check valve.... and one hair can get sucked into it and cause it to backflush.

 

[dacianb]

good is back. I think there are no hobbies with only bright sides. Each and everything made with passion may have some tears and sweat in it, but keep going is the key and the paybacks are huge.