lost half my fish in one day. the rest seem fine

[jsker]

Im confused as to how a little detritus build up killed half of your fish... there are people that use LR in their sump with no socks and never clean that chamber out.

There were a few answer thrown out in the thread, detritus was not causing the issue. The detritus was a side effect of a buildup of bacteria. I my case I thought it was something to do with my bio pellet reactor, and I was going to pull it off line, but after a comment of @saltyfilmfolks made me remember that I slowed down my reactor and that was the last thing I did before my issue of bleaching and corals dying. I was also running high Po4's and even though the bio pellet, really have no effect on Po4's. I think this is was was causing my spike of phosphates and the bacteria in the pellets causing issue also buy not getting enough movement.

Does that make sense?

 

[Armydogracing]

Gotcha I must have missed that. Just saw the ah ha post.

 

[jsker]

Gotcha I must have missed that. Just saw the ah ha post.

I did too

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Gotcha I must have missed that. Just saw the ah ha post.

In a couple of other threads here. A few folks had gunk built up and noticed the smell as well, esp once they disturbed it. Why this doesn't happen to every LARS tank, I dont know. I suppose the conditions have to be just right.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

There were a few answer thrown out in the thread, detritus was not causing the issue. The detritus was a side effect of a buildup of bacteria. I my case I thought it was something to do with my bio pellet reactor, and I was going to pull it off line, but after a comment of @saltyfilmfolks made me remember that I slowed down my reactor and that was the last thing I did before my issue of bleaching and corals dying. I was also running high Po4's and even though the bio pellet, really have no effect on Po4's. I think this is was was causing my spike of phosphates and the bacteria in the pellets causing issue also buy not getting enough movement.

Does that make sense?

Oh and sorry J, Thats Awful.

 

[jsker]

Oh and sorry J, Thats Awful.

No it wonderful I found the answer for may issue through a thread that we were all working on the help @beachsidereefer

 

[mcarroll]

It's a little late in the thread, but thought I'd throw this in as there are some links that still may be of interest:
mcarroll's Favorite Fish Links

 

[beachsidereefer]

just got the email that Triton Germany has my test vials. I'm looking forward to seeing what the results are!