Help! Why is everything dead?

swerve12

swerve12

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I have a 30gal that is about 2weeks old and a 55gal that has been up and running for bout a year now, I went to my lfs and bought about 20 pounds of base rock and put most of it in my 30gal with 3 dasmels and put about 5 pound in my 55gal all my levels were perfect before i put them in and when i woke this moring my damsels were dead and in the 55gal my tang,clowns,and blenny were dead. could the base rock cause this to happen? Please help
 
swerve12

swerve12

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i didnt remeber all the numbers but the only one that was off was my ph was extremly low and like i said everything was good yesterday
 
ibew41

ibew41

Active Member
with out exact numbers of tests hard to help what was your alk levels nitrite,ammonia
 
cam78

cam78

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Obvioulsy something is wrong with this base rock. Perhaps a cycle occured? Im sorry. This sucks. Call the LFS and ask WTF?
 
swerve12

swerve12

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thanks. oh yea they wont be happy taking my phone call tommorw it just sucks becuase they are closed today because of new years but i was just asking on here to make that it could of happen becuase of the rock before i call and start b*tching
 
swerve12

swerve12

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no there was like 5 blue tubs on floor no water in them and the guy pointed at one of the tubs and said that this rock is the only one i can use becuase it was live rock at one point and had been dried out.
 
cam78

cam78

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There had to be some die off in it which caused a spike in ammonia. What else could it have possibly been? Unless it had a cleaning chemical on it or something? Bleach residue? Something along those lines. Something was def on it.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Was there anything on it...that could have come off in the water, like old dead stuff
probably should have soaked it first....
 
swerve12

swerve12

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i did soak it, i soaked in a bucket with my tank water in it, but i asked the guy if it was ok to put it right away and he said ya thats what pisses me off
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by swerve12
http:///forum/post/3199821
i did soak it, i soaked in a bucket with my tank water in it, but i asked the guy if it was ok to put it right away and he said ya thats what pisses me off
HMMM....did you test the water is your bucket to see what the levels were....I am also betting there was some more die off on it that needed to be "soaked" off
if you ever get rock again, and are adding it to an established tank....IMO put it in a tote with SW, a heater and a powerhead...test the water after a day...or two....if levels rise...change some water...and treat it like a cycle...do not add it to you tank until levels in the tub are at 0
maybe that will help for the next time
sorry about this time
 
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