HELP!!!Dying live rock

philg3 · #1 02-29-2012, 12:55 AM

I dont think your live rock is "Dying". If you have only done a single 10 gallon water change in a 90 gallon tank the water is probably pretty foul from fish waste etc, and could do with a large water change or 2.

As for the browning rocks, probably an algae outbreak. Water changes should help this too.

fallingmonkeys · #2 02-29-2012, 01:03 AM

The rock looks like a black sponge it just looks gross. We went to 3 diffrent fish stores and was told our live rock maybe dying. The nitrate level are a bit high in the tank as well there were only 3fish in the tank at the time we did our water change there are now 4 fish in the tank u think another water chamge will help

fallingmonkeys · #3 02-29-2012, 01:05 AM

We give the tank coral food and purple up. All the pruple is dispearing of the rock as wel. The only coralying is our star polyp the rest are doing fine stil.

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Arok3000 · #5 02-29-2012, 02:11 AM

Wait a second.

Did you say you did a water change, and now you have an extra fish in there?

I keep doing water changes!

ScubaSteve · #6 02-29-2012, 02:33 AM

Can you describe the smell? Does it smell like low tide? Rotten eggs? Musky/wet dog smell?

fallingmonkeys · #7 02-29-2012, 05:23 AM

Lol. no after our water change we added another fish.

-Scuba steve
the tank smells like a very nasty musky smell. sometimes its got a really bad rotten egg smell.. we put carbon in the tank to hopefully help get rid of the smell or at least make it go away a little bit.

we were thinking of buying 5 gallon jugs of water from store and doing another 15 gallon water change to see if maybe that will help.

The Guy · #8 02-29-2012, 06:47 AM

I'm a newbie with a 48 gallon tank and have 46 lbs. of LR from a friends tank and was told to do a 50% water change after running it for 2weeks which I did. My parameters are good and am still getting some browning on the rocks, & crushed coral, my experienced friends say this will only happen until the tank is more established. I have a couple of snails and about 10 hermit crabs and I'm about to put 1 maybe 2 fish in soon. So it sounds like 10 to 20 gallon water change is a drop in the bucket with a 90 gallon tank. I'm going to do a 5 gallon wc weekly from now on.