Hi,
So I've posted frequently on here, and on a FB group I'm leaving because of contradicting advice by the facilitator, about a recent tank crash that left a lot of people baffled as to the cause, including myself. I have a Waterbox Infinia 230.6 FOWLR. I had a powder blue tang, queen angel and 2 clowns. That was it. It had been running about 6 months and everything was fine until the tang died very suddenly, angel died not long after that and the clowns hung on a few days. All inverts are fine. After posting pictures, some thought it might be uronema, others brook and others velvet. In 25 years of keeping FOWLR tanks I've never had this happen. Almost everyone suggested a 90 day fallow, some suggested "nuking" the whole system with bleach (I really don't want to do that.) Others suggested 90 day follow with metroplex incase there is uronema in there. I believe that will kill off the inverts, but I'd rather that happen than bleaching everything. Anything you experts think might be a good solution? I use Instant Ocean Reef Crystals on the advice of the FB group facilitator who now calls it "crap." Recent params are: Salt 1.024, Temp 78, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5-10, Phos 8.3, alk 10. I have a fuge with chaeto and sea lettuce, a Octopus elite 200-int skimmer, 3 AI 32s and use ro/di water. I use purigen and carbon, but it's out during the fallow that was just started last weekend. I'm leaning towards fallow with metroplex. I hate to bleach everything because there might be uronema. Thank you all!
So I've posted frequently on here, and on a FB group I'm leaving because of contradicting advice by the facilitator, about a recent tank crash that left a lot of people baffled as to the cause, including myself. I have a Waterbox Infinia 230.6 FOWLR. I had a powder blue tang, queen angel and 2 clowns. That was it. It had been running about 6 months and everything was fine until the tang died very suddenly, angel died not long after that and the clowns hung on a few days. All inverts are fine. After posting pictures, some thought it might be uronema, others brook and others velvet. In 25 years of keeping FOWLR tanks I've never had this happen. Almost everyone suggested a 90 day fallow, some suggested "nuking" the whole system with bleach (I really don't want to do that.) Others suggested 90 day follow with metroplex incase there is uronema in there. I believe that will kill off the inverts, but I'd rather that happen than bleaching everything. Anything you experts think might be a good solution? I use Instant Ocean Reef Crystals on the advice of the FB group facilitator who now calls it "crap." Recent params are: Salt 1.024, Temp 78, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5-10, Phos 8.3, alk 10. I have a fuge with chaeto and sea lettuce, a Octopus elite 200-int skimmer, 3 AI 32s and use ro/di water. I use purigen and carbon, but it's out during the fallow that was just started last weekend. I'm leaning towards fallow with metroplex. I hate to bleach everything because there might be uronema. Thank you all!