I was on a road trip for 2 weeks and just arrived home and I came home to 7 dead corals and bubble algae all over the tank HELP! I removed all the dead coral and the fish are fine, I’m only 15 and new to the hobby
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@Kindly_Anemone_5
20d
You should have put the dead corals in David’s tank to see if they can come back.
@jimmyisfishing
20d
His fish jumped out
@DHood10
19d
Looks like you could use more cycling. Just let the thing run for about 2 months before you put anything back in there. Go online. Order yourself some cultures of copepods trigger pods and even some bacteria for the tank. Let those cultures go crazy and then start adding things back in.
@carpetsurfer
19d
This is great advice, keep up with water changes to export nutrients and also keep track of your params in this app. Once your graphs look less "squiggly" you'll know your params are more stable.
@jimmyisfishing
19d
How often do you recommend water changes
@carpetsurfer
19d
It really depends on your tank and bioload. I used to test weekly and found that a weekly 15% kept all my numbers in check, so now I just test when something doesn't look right, maybe once a month for record.
@jimmyisfishing
19d
I normally test only when somethings off and I do around a 20% water change weekly
@carpetsurfer
19d
There's no hard fast rule, but knowing your numbers is useful so you can experiment and figure out what works and what doesn't. Or if something specific killed your corals, know what I'm sayin?
@jimmyisfishing
19d
Yea hopefully I don’t run in to this problem again
@sansan
19d
Get some pithos crabs to eat the bubble do some Stability and don’t add anything more for at least two weeks then you might want to see if you’re cleanup crew Needs restocking
@reeferdonut
18d
His heater blew up
@emmitt
18d
I feel u I have a 15 gal and I’m 13
@GGonzo
9d
It’s just the uglies, bubble algae is typically green and emerald crabs and peppermint shrimp are good cleaners for bubble algae. You just need to turn you glow off, clean your glass, use a turkey baster or a powerhead and blow off your rocks and then siphon your sand and do a 20% water change. This stage passes soon enough. Get a sandsifting gobie and some sand sifting snails and that’ll help with the ugly phase.
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Dang that sucks, good luck!