Tank Crash! Thanks Flatworm Exit!!!

[traveller7]

What should I do to combat the bloom and the dynoflagellates? I will continue to do water changes when I get salt in and change the carbon. What else can I do?

I'd cut back on the lighting a bit, make sure the pH stays above 8.3(dosing kalk?), make sure the flow stays high, and treat it like a new cycle.

 

Sad to hear the news.

 

fwiw: It will take more then a disaster to take out that BTA once it has settled in

Edited August 21, 2007 by traveller7

[Black Mammoth]

I'd cut back on the lighting a bit, make sure the pH stays above 8.3(dosing kalk?), make sure the flow stays high, and treat it like a new cycle.

 

Sad to hear the news.

 

fwiw: It will take more then a disaster to take out that BTA once it has settled in

 

Thanks for the tip. The flow is high. I will make sure that the PH stays above 8.3. That shouldn't be a problem since my tank likes to sit around 8.4. I'll cut back on the lighting. That's a good idea since I just have a few LPS and softies in the tank now.

[ReeferMan]

what size tank do you have and how big of a water change did you do?

[Black Mammoth]

what size tank do you have and how big of a water change did you do?

 

I have a 90g with a 40g sump. I've done 4 ~30g or so water changes. I was changing it as fast as I could make it. I ran out of salt and my two buckets should arrive tomorrow. So sometime tomorrow I will be doing another water change.

[ReeferMan]

So after you treated with the flatworm exit you did a water change (30g) and still had all this happen? If so you must of had alot of them. If it ever happens again, which i hope it doesnt. I would take all the rock out and soak them in a tub with flatworms exit for 45 min and swirl the rocks real well. Then put back on tank and treat the whole tank. I think the fish died from the toxins and the corals either die from the toxins and or carbon. It doesnt take long for carbon to clear the water and bleach SPS.

[bigJPDC]

Yo Mr. Mammoth - how's the tank?

I did a FWE treatment this weekend, and am going to back up with another in two weeks at the next water change. I did a couple of things different this time but nothing will change unless I start dipping all corals before putting them in the display tank.

 

jp