Re: Please Help!!!!!!!!

[Neptune]

I'm glad that I could help.  Your other questions are a bit more difficult to answer.  I would definitely wait a while longer before adding any fish just to be sure.  Your ammonia level should be zero before adding anything else.  Once that happens, make sure that your nitrite level does not go up.  If it does, wait until it is at zero as well.  It sounds like your tank is cycling again, but I doubt that it will be a very long one.  You may want to do some more water changes.  Keep an eye on all of your organisms.  Invertebrates are usually much more sensitive than fish.  It's kinda odd that the fish died and not your inverts.  Perhaps something in the heater was more toxic to fish than inverts?  Who knows.  Keep using the poly filters until they stop turning blue.  Patience is the key.  Good luck!   Craig Thanks Craig.That was exactly what I was looking for.I seen it in a magazine but couldn't find it at any of my lfs.My polyfilters did turn very blue so it was copper poisoning that caused most of the deaths I guess.I'm working on a letter and pictures to send Visa-therm.My copper levels are zero now.My phosphates are zero.Nitrite and nitrate are zero.My Ammonia is 1.0.I'm not sure what this did to my bacteria bed.I'm going to my lfs tomorrow and get a fresh batch of live sand to reactivate the sandbed.My calcium and alkalinity are good.My PH is 8.25.I still have a little smell from the tank like electrical burn.What could be in the water to smell like that yet???Could there be burned metal and whatever was inside the heater in the water yet?If so will the poly filter pull this stuff out and the carbon I'm using?How long should I wait to put a fish back in the tank????What kind of fish should I use that I would want to put in a reef tank?Should I add a shrimp first?Sorry for all the questions but I want to go about this in the right way.By the way my corals all came thru this great.They are all opened about 90 percent and better by the hour.The emerald crabs that I poked yesterday to see if they were alive and didn't move are moving around ok today.A couple snails and hermit crabs are cruising around again.My skimmer is still going nuts.The foam is a wet clear foam but stinks like that electrical burn smell though.I think I'll wait to put a fish in until I get rid of that smell.Thanks to everyone that helped me thru this.Any thoughts on what I should do next please reply.Thanks again. God Bless America!!!!!!!! Ken.