Rust!!!

furtado1980 · 10/27/2008, 09:22 AM

I have a quick question. Before I posted regarding dying coral, and I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Yesterday I noticed a one of my bumble bee snails in my sump. To remove him I had to remove the live rock he was on. Once I removed the rock I noticed a piece of medal rusting away. I've removed the piece and plan on doing a water change. My colonial polyps have all die and my red fungia has more the half turned white. My question is how muck of a water change should I perform(don't want to start another cycle) and could that be what killed my corals.

Thanks for all your help.

kolosy · 10/27/2008, 09:24 AM

depends on the metal. copper doesn't rust, but if there was any in there, that'd do it.

kiknchikn · 10/27/2008, 09:30 AM

You can try running polyfilter somewhere in your tank. It will remove heavy metals among other things.

WaterKeeper · 10/27/2008, 09:49 AM

Steel rust usually just adds iron and that shouldn't harm anything. An alloy might as they contain things like chrome and nickel in the alloy. Large water changes might help in such a case but I'm unsure if the rusted metal was the problem in the first place.

kevin2000 · 10/27/2008, 10:03 AM

People use phosban in there tanks all the time ... phosban is just expensive rust. Too much of anything would have an adverse impact but I doubt that a small piece of rusting steel would have any adverse impact.

10/27/2008, 09:22 AM	#1
furtado1980 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Toronto Posts: 18	Rust!!! I have a quick question. Before I posted regarding dying coral, and I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Yesterday I noticed a one of my bumble bee snails in my sump. To remove him I had to remove the live rock he was on. Once I removed the rock I noticed a piece of medal rusting away. I've removed the piece and plan on doing a water change. My colonial polyps have all die and my red fungia has more the half turned white. My question is how muck of a water change should I perform(don't want to start another cycle) and could that be what killed my corals. Thanks for all your help.

10/27/2008, 09:24 AM	#2
kolosy Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: chicago Posts: 655	depends on the metal. copper doesn't rust, but if there was any in there, that'd do it. __________________ not yet. maybe someday. Current Tank Info: 90L RR mixed reef, panworld 150ps external pump, t5/mh/led, 20g under-tank sump, 27g above tank sump, 27g fuge with 4" dsb, macro and lr rubble.

10/27/2008, 09:30 AM	#3
kiknchikn Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bel Air, MD Posts: 1,556	You can try running polyfilter somewhere in your tank. It will remove heavy metals among other things. __________________ I am a proud member of the Chesapeake Marine Aquaria Society (CMAS). If you're in the Maryland area check us out! Current Tank Info: 30g nano reef

10/27/2008, 09:49 AM	#4
WaterKeeper Bogus Information Expert Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 16,147	Steel rust usually just adds iron and that shouldn't harm anything. An alloy might as they contain things like chrome and nickel in the alloy. Large water changes might help in such a case but I'm unsure if the rusted metal was the problem in the first place. __________________ "Leading the information hungry reefer down the road to starvation" Tom Current Tank Info: 130 Now out of service and a 29

10/27/2008, 10:03 AM	#5
kevin2000 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,805	People use phosban in there tanks all the time ... phosban is just expensive rust. Too much of anything would have an adverse impact but I doubt that a small piece of rusting steel would have any adverse impact.