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Recently set up a 135g tank. It has a 40b with an 18g rubbermaid container full of pot scrubbers (not easy finding 70 bags of 6 pot scrubbers). 2x diy pvc drains with micron socks. It's been running for a few days now. I threw on a pengiun 350 HOB and took some very established filter media from other tanks and threw it in there. Parameters are all fine, nitrate/nitrite/ammonia... had to buffer for ph/hardness, but they're at good levels. I throw in a small Bn pleco to test the water and it died the next morning. Did the same thing and it died a couple hours later today.
Back tracking: When I moved into my house, I had a big fish loss. I filled up 3 tanks in the garage, everything in the first tank died, other 2 were fine. I thought it was from soft water, but with the house being a new build and filling from a faucet rarely used, I came to the decision that there was some kind of garbage in the water lines at that time that was flushed into that first tank. The first tank was the 40B im using now, and the pengiun HOB was the filter used on that tank. The tank has been empty and dry for a week prior to me using as a sump and the filter was poured out and rinsed before using (all media discarded).
The only thing I can come up with thats causing this death that something transferred from that "death tank" in the garage to my new 135g through the 40b or the filter. I'm thinking it's some kind of metal that was in the pipes. I found this product -Seachem CupriSorb-, that's suppose to take out copper and a lot of other metals from the water.
Does this sound like an issue caused by an unknown metal in the system? Do you think this product might help? Or should I just toss in a few cups of bleach, let it run in the system for a day, drain the tanks, let it dry, take out filter media, let it dry fully outside and start completely over. I have more media on other tanks that I can use to jump start the tank again.
Any thoughts? Thanks
Back tracking: When I moved into my house, I had a big fish loss. I filled up 3 tanks in the garage, everything in the first tank died, other 2 were fine. I thought it was from soft water, but with the house being a new build and filling from a faucet rarely used, I came to the decision that there was some kind of garbage in the water lines at that time that was flushed into that first tank. The first tank was the 40B im using now, and the pengiun HOB was the filter used on that tank. The tank has been empty and dry for a week prior to me using as a sump and the filter was poured out and rinsed before using (all media discarded).
The only thing I can come up with thats causing this death that something transferred from that "death tank" in the garage to my new 135g through the 40b or the filter. I'm thinking it's some kind of metal that was in the pipes. I found this product -Seachem CupriSorb-, that's suppose to take out copper and a lot of other metals from the water.
Does this sound like an issue caused by an unknown metal in the system? Do you think this product might help? Or should I just toss in a few cups of bleach, let it run in the system for a day, drain the tanks, let it dry, take out filter media, let it dry fully outside and start completely over. I have more media on other tanks that I can use to jump start the tank again.
Any thoughts? Thanks
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