Hi.
It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to start my tank over. Just a reminder, ever since a pump exploded and caused my tank to crash, I've been dealing with this http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?137074-Tank-crashed-and-now-I-can-t-fix-it.
I have tried everything I could think of, including store bought algae killer to get rid of the algae and nothing worked. It got better, but it was still spending an hour and a half scrubbing the rocks once a week. Not to mention the fact that the aptasia went crazy because I was so focused on the algae and didn't keep them in check.
I just want to start over with a clean, pest free tank. It's pretty much dead anyway. The initial crash killed my cleanup crew and most of my coral. The algae battle took care of the rest.
What should I do to insure this doesn't happen again? Bleach the rocks in the sun? How about the sand? What kind of sand should I get? I used concrete sand or whatever the sand that comes from lowes is called. Supposedly it's safe for tanks? I just want my tank back and really don't want to have to deal with pests again. I miss my tank a bunch. I would spend hours when it was healthy watching it. The past few months I've watched it slowly suffer and decline into the terrible state that it is in now. I never knew how devastations crashes could be.
It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to start my tank over. Just a reminder, ever since a pump exploded and caused my tank to crash, I've been dealing with this http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?137074-Tank-crashed-and-now-I-can-t-fix-it.
I have tried everything I could think of, including store bought algae killer to get rid of the algae and nothing worked. It got better, but it was still spending an hour and a half scrubbing the rocks once a week. Not to mention the fact that the aptasia went crazy because I was so focused on the algae and didn't keep them in check.
I just want to start over with a clean, pest free tank. It's pretty much dead anyway. The initial crash killed my cleanup crew and most of my coral. The algae battle took care of the rest.
What should I do to insure this doesn't happen again? Bleach the rocks in the sun? How about the sand? What kind of sand should I get? I used concrete sand or whatever the sand that comes from lowes is called. Supposedly it's safe for tanks? I just want my tank back and really don't want to have to deal with pests again. I miss my tank a bunch. I would spend hours when it was healthy watching it. The past few months I've watched it slowly suffer and decline into the terrible state that it is in now. I never knew how devastations crashes could be.