Live Rock

arpartyman

arpartyman

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My Tank crashed on me about three months ago and almost everything died. My live rock looks alomost completly bare. If I get another piece of LR and put it in there will this help bring back my other? Or am I better to just start over. It's about 40lbs. 75gal. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks
 
fshhub

fshhub

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i agree with whipple, but first
if the rock never dried, and such, it is stilllive
the one thing, is what caused your tank to crash??
if it involved any contaminants, i would not use it, medicines included in contaminants(at lest copper based)
 
arpartyman

arpartyman

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Ich. All my fish died. Never could contain it. So all I did was leave it alone. Light were out but the filter was always on. The rock used to have a lot of growth on it, all kinds. Now it's like I said it's now almost bare. My tests are all way off. So I'm getting them back down to normal now. Also, I've got 2 little catipiler looking things that crawl arond the rock sometimes. There about 1" long very thin. Any idea on what it might be?
 
broomer5

broomer5

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It sounds like after the fish all died, you may have neglected this tank somewhat for a few months. Lights off - but filter running.
Please correct me if this is not the case.
This may be totally unnecessary - and I suppose it would depend on your water quality test results - but if this was my situation - I would drain off the 75 gallons of saltwater - mix up a new batch - refill the tank - use the existing bare live rock as base ( as suggested )add some new live rock - cycle if you lost your bacteria -and start fresh.
I would hold off on adding any fish for 2 months after the cycle - then move ahead very slowly.
 
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