Diaster Recovery help please!

[Jason McK]

WOW I don't think more caution could have been taken. Sound like the perfect move. It's hard to understand how such a well planed move could go so bad.

J

[michika]

I'm having loads of bad luck right now, I think its rubbing off on my tank and everything I touch.

[Chin_Lee]

Catherine
sps for me has always been touchy. I've had 98% of frags survive a transfer into my tanks over the past few years. But when I set up my 300g sps tank and transferred everything over from the 165, I lost no less that 75% of my colonies. Some people have success during transfers and some just have bad luck like you and me. It sounds like you've taken every precaution that most experienced reefer would have so I'm lost for suggestions or advice. Sorry to hear
BTW i re-used all my acro skeletons by putting them into the calcium reactor as a way of making the "best" of a pretty bad situation.

[michika]

Did you break down the skeletons into smaller pieces, or did you just break them off the rocks/plugs and toss them on in? At least if I toss them in my reactor I know they won't be going to waste.

[MitchM]

I think that the only thing that you can do now is to let the cycle run it's course.
If somebody else can house your remaining livestock, PDQ, that would be best.

See if you can obtain some cured live rock (beg, borrow or steal maybe?) to add to your system now.

Mitch

[SeaShell]

Count me in.... I lost every coral except my zoas and a devils hand in my last new tank transfer about a month ago.

[kwirky]

You could be experiencing the toxins of sponges dieing from being exposed to air. They're pretty toxic usually. Do you have adequate actively run carbon for the various toxins of the rock fauna dieing from the move? Carbon's like a protein skimmer I think: it makes things easy.