Fellow Reefers... I am weighing my options on restarting my 20 year old tank that crashed while I was on vacation last week. Would like your POV on how best to restart.... What can I salvage?
3 foot bow front tank 50 ish gallons 50 pounds LR / live sand bottom / only survivors starfish on the glass
* Dump all the water and start new new salt water
* Pull out the live sand and start again?
* How can I salvage the live rock? My ammonia alert badge reads toxic still after several days of heater and power back on? The live rock has Xenia and mushrooms hanging off of it? Do I pull all this off manually will it come back? Xenia is a bit of a weed in my tank... not sure I care if it survives?
* IF I CAN SAVE MY LR - Do I consider this a new tank.... or will my tank still have some extra capacity and stability? I want to restock with pygmy angelfish and BTA with clown fish... Do I need to treat this like a new tank and be super slow?
Hmmmmm to start over or end this insanity...?
3 foot bow front tank 50 ish gallons 50 pounds LR / live sand bottom / only survivors starfish on the glass
* Dump all the water and start new new salt water
* Pull out the live sand and start again?
* How can I salvage the live rock? My ammonia alert badge reads toxic still after several days of heater and power back on? The live rock has Xenia and mushrooms hanging off of it? Do I pull all this off manually will it come back? Xenia is a bit of a weed in my tank... not sure I care if it survives?
* IF I CAN SAVE MY LR - Do I consider this a new tank.... or will my tank still have some extra capacity and stability? I want to restock with pygmy angelfish and BTA with clown fish... Do I need to treat this like a new tank and be super slow?
Hmmmmm to start over or end this insanity...?