Um anemone nuke?

[Silvermist67]

So i had bought a long tentacle anemone which was doin fine in my tank and after like 3 or 4 days of buying it i had a algae bloom which i had no idea how fix until yesterday and i open my tank to put a peppermint shrimp in and i saw white chunks floating and i got worried and i still can see anything so i do a small water change like 5 gallons once i do a dead/shredded anemone snd dead clownfish floats by so scooped everything up and for sum reason my watchmen goby is fine but how do i clean this tank now since i guess my anemone nuked it i have activated carbon in it already

 

[ReefHomieJon]

Add an immediate ammonia remover.... then Do a large water change. Like 40%-50%. Test for ammonia Every few hrs and then do another 30% change the following day get it back to zero..... what are we saving anyway?? Btw This happened to me like a year ago and “fishguy42” Or something helped me save my tank and it worked although I may not be relaying everything the same way he did but u can check my HELP thread lol but after doing this for a while I think u can trust what I’m saying

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Do the large wc. Wait. You might need to do another. This happened over night?
-d

 

[ReefHomieJon]

If you don’t have ammonia remover on deck at this hour but have salt water stored well do the WC now and hit a Walmart at 6am/7am or whenever they open and buy whatever ammonia neutralizer they have lol nem nuke ain’t no joke

 

[Silvermist67]

If you don’t have ammonia remover on deck at this hour but have salt water stored well do the WC now and hit a Walmart at 6am/7am or whenever they open and buy whatever ammonia neutralizer they have lol nem nuke ain’t no joke

I did a massive water change already and whats good for removing ammonia

 

[Silvermist67]

Do the large wc. Wait. You might need to do another. This happened over night?
-d

Im not sure when this happened since the tank was all green im gonna assume this happened a day or 2 ago

 

[ReefHomieJon]

I called off work and said that I had a sick kid when it happened to me.
I woke up at 4am and leave for work at 4/30. Seen my tank milky lookin and I was SICK so I did t feel bad saying that my kid was cuz technically it is my kid too; I birthed this thing lol. So I took off work and hit Walmart and did exactly what fishguy42 said lol. Tank been doi. Excellent ever since

 

[Silvermist67]

Add an immediate ammonia remover.... then Do a large water change. Like 40%-50%. Test for ammonia Every few hrs and then do another 30% change the following day get it back to zero..... what are we saving anyway?? Btw This happened to me like a year ago and “fishguy42” Or something helped me save my tank and it worked although I may not be relaying everything the same way he did but u can check my HELP thread lol but after doing this for a while I think u can trust what I’m saying

I think it destroyed my shrimp i cant tell if its molting or not

 

[ReefHomieJon]

Im not sure when this happened since the tank was all green im gonna assume this happened a day or 2 ago

A day or 2???!?! Lol

 

[Silvermist67]

A day or 2???!?! Lol

I cant see and i am always busy

 

[ReefHomieJon]

I think it destroyed my shrimp i cant tell if its molting or not

U just had a shrimp left? No other fish or coral?

 

[Silvermist67]

U just had a shrimp left? No other fish or coral?

I have a tiger goby and a yellow watchmen and 4 turbo snails and all my corals still alive and 2 baby hermit crabs

 

[Silvermist67]

I have a tiger goby and a yellow watchmen and 4 turbo snails and all my corals still alive and 2 baby hermit crabs

I had bought 2 shrimps and came home to this

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Ya dont be afraid to do another wc in a day or so when u have the time. I know my wc is at least 30gals and i dread it. Lol. So i run carbon or charcol to clear the water.
Check salinity. Ph. Alk. And tempature next time before additions. Than float the bag for 10mins and drop the critter in.
Hths
D

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

If the nem was already bad to start off before trying to acclimate to ur tank...prob not a lot u could do for the stress of the animal. Guessing it melted...?
D

 

[ReefHomieJon]

I have a tiger goby and a yellow watchmen and 4 turbo snails and all my corals still alive and 2 baby hermit crabs

Aight well then u need to save your corals. Yea man do what was outlined and hopefully it’ll be all good. Post an update

 

[lukefish]

What on earth is a “nem nuke”?

Hope you can save what you have left !!

 

[Silvermist67]

Aight well then u need to save your corals. Yea man do what was outlined and hopefully it’ll be all good. Post an update

I went to the fish shop and had my water tested and they jus looked at me and said i had high salinity and ammonia that to not do anymore water changes i did too many apparently so they said let the water sit and change 5 gallons next week

 

[Poof No Eyebrows]

Seems more to me like it got shredded.

 

[ReefHomieJon]

Doing a water change won’t raise salinity. That might be what killed the nem tho. U can’t do too many water changes in an emergency situation when you have high ammonia due to a nem nuke. But why so many water changes?? Shoulda just been like one large one, an ammonia remover and then wait and monitor followed by another Small one in a day or 2 after the ammonia was under control.