• Unpleasant smell from live rocks in the aquarium.

  • Alexander

I am currently restarting the aquarium, I disassembled it into 3-4 buckets, live rocks and corals. They have been sitting in one bucket for about 3 days, the water has slightly clouded (there were live rocks covered with zoanthids and cut Kenyan trees), the rocks have an unpleasant smell. Should I use them, and is there a chance that the umbrellas are still alive? I placed a pump in each bucket and so on. This is an urgent question, thank you in advance.

Stephanie3084

Strange, maybe the Kenyans poisoned the water?

Matthew1280

I think so, there were many of them, and I cut some with a knife while disassembling the aquarium. I selected the rocks with umbrellas, and I will turn the rest into dry reef rocks. I placed them in the aquarium, set up a fluidized bed reactor with carbon, and tomorrow morning I will get ammonia remover at the nearest pet store (the guys from Marine Kyiv UA suggested it). The fish and most of the corals are still in their bucket - they seem to be doing well there. For now, the umbrellas are closed, so it's unclear which ones are alive and which are quietly decaying.

Elijah7048

A sprayer and air blowing are essential, as well as monitoring the temperature.

Monique1236

The water flow and temperature were fine, but the aeration was a challenge - one compressor without tees had to be placed on a bucket with the main corals. Overall, there were losses of 2-3 kg of live rock without corals of average quality, and all the Kenyan trees, colonies of zoanthids, and polyps have already started to open today (although not all the heads yet).