Here is what I would do if I were in your situation -
1. Set up a seperate qt tank for your fish. Check water daily - use your skimmer on the qt tank and change water as required. Requires diligent maintenance!
2. Find someone to take the coral off your hands until you get your main tank up and running and stable.
3. Clean out your main tank. Get rid of the sand - and put in clean new sand.
Maybe this is not necessary....not sure.
4. Put your liverock back in the tank and allow it to cycle - rebuilding its bacteria to convert ammonia into nitrite and then nitrate.
Basically - you are starting over. After your tank has fully cycled and water is testing good - then add a clean up crew....followed by your fish after a couple of weeks.
Wait another month.
Then add back your corals if your friend has managed to save them. Sorry for your troubles. Not sure what you meant by torching the rock?!? But - it seems to me that you have inadvertantly killed off the bacteria that converts ammonia if your water is testing high for ammonia......it is this biological filter that you need to reintroduce - be patient and diligent with the qt tank - and you should be good to go in the future.
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