Very sick aquarium

[Mark Novack]

My aquarium has every bad syndrome possible. I want to completely redo it. It needs complete sterilization. It has a reasonable amount of living corals , anemones, and fish, but I'm afraid of relocating my marine life and destroying other people's tanks. Nothing thrives, only survives. Mushrooms, most anything discasoma, just slowly die. All fish are always showing minimal to moderate ich. Just lost an Imperator to what may have been gill parasites or velvet. Weird velvet if its that. Advice appreciated. Has anyone ever destroyed (put down) their marine life because of chronic sick tank syndrome? I'm in a dilemma here. I'm not prepared to go through any more heroic methods. I've been trying to beat it for three years. It all started when an 8 t5 tube lamp fell in and knocked out the power for about 7 hours. I was on the other side of the country. That promoted a massive die off and its never recuperated.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[brandon429]

fallow and quarantine don’t require tank redo.

we can fix the reef with cleaning, not dosing and testing, then apply fallow and qt. A cleaned reef allows you to feed better vs withholding, and it’s all new water, that exports bad compounds and accumulations, so the corals will be fine.

 

[brandon429]

120 gallon rip clean

I’ve decided to perform a rip clean on my 120 with 100% new water. The tank has been running for 5 years and was battling Dino for several months. I used the bacteria method from elegant corals and worked great I haven’t seen Dino in months now. But I tried several other methods including...

www.reef2reef.com

that will fix the aquarium, fallow and qt fixes the fish

post pics of your reef it helps with troubleshooting

 

[brandon429]

Mark if we don’t fix the current tank as is, the new one becomes this current one over time because it will be ran the same way. You have a way to fix this tank and in turn that fixes future ones.

we showed above an opposite means of reefing, yours only needs one cleaning to start fresh. Anything bad on the live rock can be removed during disassembly

only the fish are kept out upon reassembly they’ll go into quarantine and all new ones too.

the tank and all its rock sand and corals cleaned up runs for eighty days, feeding and water changing like normal, this is fallow and then you add clean fish back at the end. Even in the new tank all sterilized rock, these exact steps are needed but you’ll get the white rock uglies until 2023, see why that’s a lesser option than the link above that takes 24 hours to effect