Twisted
09/13/2006, 11:50 AM
Just thought I would let you guys know I had a minor crash over the last week.
As you know my tank is damn near a fish only tank, with a small amount of live rock and some basic soft corals with a few other additions.
Anyways, like a moron, I bought a batfish, he is very cool, even though he will out grow my tank in a short time, he is also very weak against Ich. So I started useing Kick Ich against it, after a couple weeks of useing it, I read the instructions...
So with my filter, I am running Carbon, which seems to pull the kick ich right back out of the water. My filters are one piece and seamed together, so to remove the carbon I had to remove the entire filter...
After a few days, my corals start to shrivel, and go limp. The water starts to cloud...everything looks like poo.
So, I freak, I do a 20% water change, I put the filter back together...
Water looks a lot better, my horseshoe crab starts comming out again.....wait, what is that? My Xenias! My Xenias are melting...no, no, they are gone!
My horseshoe crab starts pushing around the sand and kicks up my new sand sifting star...well, what seems to be left of it....
My feather duster died, my Skunk shrimp isn't moving.....my leather tree and toadstool are laying down and not opening....
Well, moral of the story...don't always follow the directions. When it says to remove the filters, don't, as Steve pointed out to me after the fact, only remove the carbon not the entire filter.
Luckly it didn't seem to hurt my fish, or my other inverts. Still not sure my other polyps will open back up, and my mushrooms look like they are still alive, but still not opening all the way.
Here is to another learning experience.....
As you know my tank is damn near a fish only tank, with a small amount of live rock and some basic soft corals with a few other additions.
Anyways, like a moron, I bought a batfish, he is very cool, even though he will out grow my tank in a short time, he is also very weak against Ich. So I started useing Kick Ich against it, after a couple weeks of useing it, I read the instructions...
So with my filter, I am running Carbon, which seems to pull the kick ich right back out of the water. My filters are one piece and seamed together, so to remove the carbon I had to remove the entire filter...
After a few days, my corals start to shrivel, and go limp. The water starts to cloud...everything looks like poo.
So, I freak, I do a 20% water change, I put the filter back together...
Water looks a lot better, my horseshoe crab starts comming out again.....wait, what is that? My Xenias! My Xenias are melting...no, no, they are gone!
My horseshoe crab starts pushing around the sand and kicks up my new sand sifting star...well, what seems to be left of it....
My feather duster died, my Skunk shrimp isn't moving.....my leather tree and toadstool are laying down and not opening....
Well, moral of the story...don't always follow the directions. When it says to remove the filters, don't, as Steve pointed out to me after the fact, only remove the carbon not the entire filter.
Luckly it didn't seem to hurt my fish, or my other inverts. Still not sure my other polyps will open back up, and my mushrooms look like they are still alive, but still not opening all the way.
Here is to another learning experience.....