kiefers
Active Member
So, last weekend this guy, me, finally had some time to do a whole system clean up on his fish cage. Started out by cleaning off the glass the vacuuming up some of the substrate. Went and got some RO/DI water the a couple of days prior, dumped into the bin, and bought it to temperature. I later added the salt and allowed it to stir for 24 + hours, cleared up rather quickly but thought the tank waited this long it could wait one day.
The day came in the morning and i finished with the water change. Took out some pieces of live rock and scrubbed them down with a firm brush, rinsed them with the old water and replaced them into their spots. Everything was good in aquaria once again.
Before adding the new H2O, I checked the pH, nitrates and phosphates, which all checked out. I added the water and BOOM cloudy.After the water was finished I changes out the filter media and cleaned the other equipment like the skimmer and PH's. I even added one for the back of the tank to keep the back clean.
By nights end, keep in mind that all this was done by fiveish.... the corals were still closed, which was odd because they typically love the water changes.
Next morning, my Royal Gramma was dead, Multi colored Angel looked as if she had been scalped and one eye was getting ready to fall out, eventually did, and ALL my corals had this thick slime coat covering them. the sun coral were all about dead already, all but a small few. The leather was all winkled up and pissed to all hell, the Xenia gone, which I was not heart broken over that. Monti's dead, and my prized piece, the Aussie elegance looked dead as well. My Scolley looks like a porcupine with half of the tissue gone. Oh man this just pisses me off typing this Lol....
I quickly move my elegance, leather and sun corals to the coral QT. The scolley followed suite shortly after. My tree and neon candy canes which act as if nothing happen at all are still in the 56. The tank stunk of rot so I thought I had better hit another water change and quickly.
Just for the giggles of it all I took a water sample to the lab at work and requested they run a test on it. Sometimes the city will test the water but it takes them lot of time to do this. I went to my fish guy and got some of his water 40 gallons, and quickly did another mix.
I did another water change last night and things looks a heck of alot better. I am using carbon and running my skimmer, which has calmed down after the water change. It was running like there was soap in the water.
Any thoughts on what I should do to save my other corals or Angel fish? I am afraid to take her out and stress her more, but the maderin may starve if I don't so something with him too.
So today I get the results back on the water. The lab tech stated that this was fish water. Lol..... duh, I explained to him later where the water came from. He asked how often Aquarium salt water contained Hydrogen Peroxide? I said "dude in the lab coat say whaaaaat"? He said there were high traces of peroxide in the water. OMG again I nearly lost what is left of my mind!!!
On my lunch today I called our local reef club science guru and he tells me there is a store that has been using peroxide to sanitize their R/O units rather than changing out there filters. Anyone hear of this practice?
any thoughts on this or advice would be greatly appreciated.
On another note I would like to thank sip for listening to my rant and raving over this issue!! (thanks man)
The day came in the morning and i finished with the water change. Took out some pieces of live rock and scrubbed them down with a firm brush, rinsed them with the old water and replaced them into their spots. Everything was good in aquaria once again.
Before adding the new H2O, I checked the pH, nitrates and phosphates, which all checked out. I added the water and BOOM cloudy.After the water was finished I changes out the filter media and cleaned the other equipment like the skimmer and PH's. I even added one for the back of the tank to keep the back clean.
By nights end, keep in mind that all this was done by fiveish.... the corals were still closed, which was odd because they typically love the water changes.
Next morning, my Royal Gramma was dead, Multi colored Angel looked as if she had been scalped and one eye was getting ready to fall out, eventually did, and ALL my corals had this thick slime coat covering them. the sun coral were all about dead already, all but a small few. The leather was all winkled up and pissed to all hell, the Xenia gone, which I was not heart broken over that. Monti's dead, and my prized piece, the Aussie elegance looked dead as well. My Scolley looks like a porcupine with half of the tissue gone. Oh man this just pisses me off typing this Lol....
I quickly move my elegance, leather and sun corals to the coral QT. The scolley followed suite shortly after. My tree and neon candy canes which act as if nothing happen at all are still in the 56. The tank stunk of rot so I thought I had better hit another water change and quickly.
Just for the giggles of it all I took a water sample to the lab at work and requested they run a test on it. Sometimes the city will test the water but it takes them lot of time to do this. I went to my fish guy and got some of his water 40 gallons, and quickly did another mix.
I did another water change last night and things looks a heck of alot better. I am using carbon and running my skimmer, which has calmed down after the water change. It was running like there was soap in the water.
Any thoughts on what I should do to save my other corals or Angel fish? I am afraid to take her out and stress her more, but the maderin may starve if I don't so something with him too.
So today I get the results back on the water. The lab tech stated that this was fish water. Lol..... duh, I explained to him later where the water came from. He asked how often Aquarium salt water contained Hydrogen Peroxide? I said "dude in the lab coat say whaaaaat"? He said there were high traces of peroxide in the water. OMG again I nearly lost what is left of my mind!!!
On my lunch today I called our local reef club science guru and he tells me there is a store that has been using peroxide to sanitize their R/O units rather than changing out there filters. Anyone hear of this practice?
any thoughts on this or advice would be greatly appreciated.
On another note I would like to thank sip for listening to my rant and raving over this issue!! (thanks man)