So today my 55g sprung a leak at the bottom of the tank. So the only option I had was get a new tank and replace it and hope for the best. The First shot is a shot I took yesterday before the crash the other are after the crash.
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After 6 hours and loads of help from my family my tank is back up, and as you can see looks a lot better then before, and I don't know why. The lights look a lot better on here then before, the corals are popping more then anything, the corals that I had trouble with like my anemones and my hammer coral are now out after literally 5 seconds of putting them in my water. It's crazy, before the crash the anemones were hiding and the hammer looked so bad. Now its just out and about.
Can this be because of the about 30g water change I did? I did use most of same water from before and and kept the fish in buckets like you see above but like I don't know why it looks like this now. The only thing I cleaned was the sand that I rinsed some tab water before I put it back into the new tank. Can this be just that I was not doing enough water changes? I did 5 gallons every week, but never dosed anything, only thing I tested for was alk and it was always 7-8 dkh. My Parameters were also perfect. So can this be that I took a lot of rocks out or what? Maybe it was my lighting schedule too? I usually have my lights on from blues: 12pm-12am colors 2pm-10:30pm. And today the corals only had light from 2pm-5pm. Should I maybe lean back on the lighting schedule?
Just wonder for anyone's input on how to keep it looking this good. Should I be doing more water in my water changes or start dosing??
After 6 hours and loads of help from my family my tank is back up, and as you can see looks a lot better then before, and I don't know why. The lights look a lot better on here then before, the corals are popping more then anything, the corals that I had trouble with like my anemones and my hammer coral are now out after literally 5 seconds of putting them in my water. It's crazy, before the crash the anemones were hiding and the hammer looked so bad. Now its just out and about.
Can this be because of the about 30g water change I did? I did use most of same water from before and and kept the fish in buckets like you see above but like I don't know why it looks like this now. The only thing I cleaned was the sand that I rinsed some tab water before I put it back into the new tank. Can this be just that I was not doing enough water changes? I did 5 gallons every week, but never dosed anything, only thing I tested for was alk and it was always 7-8 dkh. My Parameters were also perfect. So can this be that I took a lot of rocks out or what? Maybe it was my lighting schedule too? I usually have my lights on from blues: 12pm-12am colors 2pm-10:30pm. And today the corals only had light from 2pm-5pm. Should I maybe lean back on the lighting schedule?
Just wonder for anyone's input on how to keep it looking this good. Should I be doing more water in my water changes or start dosing??
