Tank Crashed, need small advice

[afsportsguy000]

I am giving up on my main tank,

I have had another tank (one I really want) up and running for 6 months now, I just started to place corals in it. Its bare bottom and clean. I need to make the move very soon to moving everything over. I have an issue with flat worms and algae.

I dont really care about the live rock but more so killing the flat worms and saving any corals on the rock that way I can frag it to go with the new look or sell the rock with corals on it as a whole. Can I dump it into a bucket with salt water for 45 min rinse well then place into my new tank? Would this kill a anemane carpet? Would it be harmful to any corals. Its the same as dosing my DT but this way I can do it over time and get rid of as many flat worms as possible.

 

[Owen386]

your gonna want to take as many corals as you can off the rock.
then proceed to wash rock of nuisance algae and such. don't Know anything about flat worms so can't help there. but putting this rock after scrubbing into another tank will likely cause a small cycle.

tank crashed? what happen?

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[MrX]

Flatworm-Exit or something similar shouldn't hurt your corals.

The process to kill the flatworms takes more than 45 minutes, and ideally you'd want to repeat it depending on how bad your infestation is.

Good info on removing them:
http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html

Once you took care of the flatworms then you could resolve the algae issues on a rock by rock basis.

 

[THE WOOKIE]

a wrasse will also help

 

[frank180reef]

you need to do the fw exit, it isnt that bad
but get as many out as u can first

 

[afsportsguy000]

I have flatworm exit now. What I mean by the tank crashing is, I am getting crazy amt of algae and flatworms have coated everything, I am super afraid its going to kill all living things in mytank from the toxins, You can not tell I have sand there are so many flatworms

Its also very like gross algae, What I mean by that is slimy

 

[Moe_K]

Sounds like cyanobacteria, rather than algae.
You need to figure out why you're getting the cyano. Usually it's from a lot of nutrients like over feeding and not enough skimming or water changes.
Once you determine what is cause the cyano, you can fix the cause.
You can treat the existing cyano with a product like Dr. Tim's Refresh (which is getting some good reviews).
If you just go with the chemical fix, then the cyano will just return in a week or two.

 

[bill120mph]

i would do a water change with a small hose and vacume out as many flat worms as you can , try the flat worm exit and repeat... does this system have a skimmer on it?

 

[afsportsguy000]

Yea, I am running a 175 or 250 skimmer right now on it, Would keep clauging up my other skimmer in one day.

 

[HuuTa]

Dip it in h2o2 after the FW exit and there will be no more HA.Just made a tread about dosing h2o2.I also dip some rocks with corals on it and they are all still doing good

 

[afsportsguy000]

My light maybe???? I run 2 atinik bulbs(purple) bulbs for 12+hrs.

 

[Moe_K]

My light maybe???? I run 2 atinik bulbs(purple) bulbs for 12+hrs.

Well, kinda.
One way to get rid of cyano is to kill the lights for a few days, maybe a week.
Problem is, if there are still excess nutrients, as soon as the lights are on schedule again the cyano will return.