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TY, hoping a large water change today and changing the substrate cleaning the rocks will fix this, guess we will have to wait and see. Don't know what else to do at this point. I'll post when we know.

Ok I may have found something I had not considered I was reading on another forum and found someone who was having the same trouble with their tank they had hooked up their RO Backwards, I did not do that but at the start of all this my LFS tested my RO/DI Water and it was a TDS of close to 300...

How about the o2 it is way low according to the chart, I am so glad you had me test that I would have never thought of that. What do you think about me changing all the water out and the substrate? Letting it sit for the 8 weeks while I am gone?

Thanks guys I will raise it up. Any suggestions on what type and how strong the power heads need to be in the tank? I have been told I am not running enough and not in the right spots. I have two Maxijet 1200 now pointing at top except one seems to be lacking in output and won't stay put, and...

TY Capt, I will raise temp up to 80, I had been told that I wanted to keep salinty between 1.020 and 1.024 was I misinformed, if I have it to low I will be sure to raise it.

TY I will foloow your recommendations, most I have been doing, all equipment is for the tank only,the tank does not have a hood it is open but no one is allowed to burn candles spray anything in the room ect, I bought my 5 gal buckets at Lowes cleaned them and they have never been used for...

Ok I will retest how do I get the PH down, I have marine buffer vut would I need something else to bring it down?

OOPs forgot PH at 8.8

Ok Got most of the test kits ya'll said here are the readings KH 10, Phospate 0, Nitrate 20(went back up) from12, nitrite 0 ammo. 0 calc way high took 36 drops highest on chart was 26, Oxygen 5mg salt 1.023 temp at 76. Could not find a kit for the alkanity silicate or iodine.

TY I will correct the position of the powerheads to get more top movement. Do you think we should also have one at the bottom, I can buy a new for that and put two at the top and one or two at the bottom if that would help. I am heading out to the LFS, We have three within a 20 min radius. I...

TY I will add that one to my list also. Did the pics help any?

TY Bobby yes it was I just replaced the heater as I broke it building the fuge in the sump (after all the distaster) Still trying to find a way of checking the voltage thing.Looking through a Foster catolog now to see if there is anything out there to help with that.

I am sorry if I gave you the impression that my only opion is to start over, that is not so. I really do not have an opion which is why I am looking for advise,just want to correct this hopefully w/o losing my live rock. I am going out today to buy the test kits I do not have, and have already...

The only thing living in the tank are two baby snails born in it about 3 months ago, not using any chemicals, until after the first 40 gal change when my LFS pointed out that my ph from my RO/DI unit was at 7.4, started using Marine Buffer 1/4 tsp per 5 gal in top off and new salt water mixes to...

Ok ty I took a couple of pics this morning the first is my tank a month ago after we did the 45gal change second is from today maybe pics will trigger something.

I really do not want to kill any fish, isn't there a way to test for the contamination w/o risking another life?

Maybe I have more than one issue going on, Nothing to lose now, the two I have left are in the 39 gal and doing fine, I can rip the whole thing down if need be but would hate to lose my live rock. Guess tomorrow well drain her down strip all the substrate clean the rocks, add new water sand and...

Yes goung to buy a new test kit tomorrow with the missing test all I have is Ph Amm Nitrite and nitrate and salenity(misspelled)

It is setup for a little over two 2 years, bought the tank used from my LFS it was one of their rentals, I had a 55 gal set up for 5 years never a problem and a 39 gal. I took my 55 gal used the rock sand water ect into the 90 added more rock sand since it was a larger tank, but that was 2 years...

Thanks tht is things NOONE has tested for alkalinity, calcium, and phosphates. I will see if I can get a kit for those tomorrow. No worries nothing is going in that tank for awhile, not even new snails can live in it, just the ones that were born there before everything went nuts.