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Just ran out and got a copper test. Showing 0. Just looked up the sand company again to see what it say's and its saying it is marine safe so I'm at a loss. Why would 10-15 lbs of sand crash a tank? Whats got me real puzzled is its hit and miss with what corals are affected. Red cap looks fine but the green and purple look terrible. All acro's look horrible, but the setosa is colored up and has polyps showing. LPS is the same. Hammer, Frogspawn, Torch, Candycane, and Duncan are all closed up, but the slipper/tounge coral, chalice, acans, and bubble looks fine. Softies mainly all look bad, theres just one rock with green mushrooms that looks okay, the 2 hairy mushrooms detached. Zoo's are 50/50 half are open half are closed.

Just makes my head hurt looking at it.
 
Just ran out and got a copper test. Showing 0. Just looked up the sand company again to see what it say's and its saying it is marine safe so I'm at a loss. Why would 10-15 lbs of sand crash a tank? Whats got me real puzzled is its hit and miss with what corals are affected. Red cap looks fine but the green and purple look terrible. All acro's look horrible, but the setosa is colored up and has polyps showing. LPS is the same. Hammer, Frogspawn, Torch, Candycane, and Duncan are all closed up, but the slipper/tounge coral, chalice, acans, and bubble looks fine. Softies mainly all look bad, theres just one rock with green mushrooms that looks okay, the 2 hairy mushrooms detached. Zoo's are 50/50 half are open half are closed.

Just makes my head hurt looking at it.

How did you wash the sand? Was it live sand? New live sand or sand from another tank?
it is REALLY easy to crash a tank by reusing sand ( adding old sand to a new tank).
 
How did you wash the sand? Was it live sand? New live sand or sand from another tank?
it is REALLY easy to crash a tank by reusing sand ( adding old sand to a new tank).

Brand new sand. Washed it in a bucket(what I use for water changes). Its estes sand. Its kind of hard to explain it but its more course than regular sand. http://store.seacorals.net/esaqsawhaqsu.html

I also just replaced the carbon in the reactor so hopefully that pulls whatever it is out of the water.
 
That does not look like live sand.

Did you wash it in fresh or salt water?

Fresh water, but was drained before adding to the tank.



Everything still looks terrible. Lost one of the encrusting monti's and the setosa is starting to bleach out as well.
 
Fresh water, but was drained before adding to the tank.



Everything still looks terrible. Lost one of the encrusting monti's and the setosa is starting to bleach out as well.


When you say freshwater, you do mean filtered right? If not what did you use to wash it with? Just throwing examples out, but a outdoor hose could have contaminated, or maybe trace amounts of chlorine that stayed in the sand. Drained afterall is not dry.
 

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Brand new sand. Washed it in a bucket(what I use for water changes). Its estes sand. Its kind of hard to explain it but its more course than regular sand. http://store.seacorals.net/esaqsawhaqsu.html

I also just replaced the carbon in the reactor so hopefully that pulls whatever it is out of the water.

Estes sand is actually a resin coated gravel......from their literature:

"All Estes products are clear coated, using 100% environmentally friendly high gloss resin. This state of the art process makes their gravel virtually dust free, and provides the best possible appearance and ease of use in your aquarium."

It's been a while since I've looked at this "sand," but back in the day, it had mixed reviews.
 
Estes sand is actually a resin coated gravel......from their literature:

"All Estes products are clear coated, using 100% environmentally friendly high gloss resin. This state of the art process makes their gravel virtually dust free, and provides the best possible appearance and ease of use in your aquarium."

It's been a while since I've looked at this "sand," but back in the day, it had mixed reviews.

That's probably why it bubbled up and wanted to float.
 
Small update. Still have no clue as what went wrong with the tank. But on a good note I have my first bit of purple coraline algea growing on the back glass and most of the corals left are looking good. Somedays the slipper is so swelled up it is a inch up the glass.
 
Thanks to a couple of local guys I'm back in the game. Here's a couple of quick shots of the tank. I'm going to let it run idle(not add anything) for a while until things start to take off.

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