Just found your channel and I'm glad I did! Sorry about your tank but I'm glad you aren't quitting!

Just found your channel, but I can certainly understand. I left for a week and gave specific instructions to my wife on what and how much to feed, etc. Came back to 0.30 Phosphates lol. I had a pretty large Dino/Cyano breakout on my Red Sea Reefer XL 300 G2. I also bought Dinox, but I didn't use it. I cleaned all the rocks with a toothbrush and did 10 to 15 gallon water changes weekly, which is normal. I also have a Red Sea Reefmat 500 which made a huge difference in catching all the Dinos. I had to manually clean the rocks about 3 times over the course of 3 weeks or so. I also dosed about 200ml nightly of Brightwell Microbacter7. When dosing nightly, I would turn off my UV and Skimmer and then add the Microbacter7. I did this about 11pm and at around 10am the next morning, I would turn the UV and Skimmer back on. Did this religiously every night for 3 weeks or so. Dinos/Cyano are about 95% gone and leaving more and more. You cannot hurt your tank dosing Microbacter7. Essentially the bacteria eats away at the excess nutrients/algae at night, in the morning the skimmer pulls a lot of junk out of the water column and you repeat nightly. Microbacter7 was a tremendous help. Honestly, I didn't think it would do anything, but it certainly did. Someone mentioned Vibrant in the comments. There are horror stories about Vibrant, but I've used it very safely before and it absolutely works. It takes a while sometimes, but it works great. People can't follow instructions and Swart it kills their Coral. Well, if you release all the nutrients from the bad algae, that's how Vibrant works, and you don't do water changes and run your skimmer, then you have dead corals. Best of luck and just consider it a setback and learn from it. You had great success and you definitely know what you're doing. Don't let this ruin your confidence, it could have happened to anyone.

Sad to hear that and it looks like your approach is working and good luck the rest of the way. Happy reefing chief

That's awful man, sorry to hear. I love the fish you have! I've never seen those blue see through schooling fish before

Oof, that’s a tough one to film. Appreciate your hard work ✊🏻😢

Appreciate your honesty and handling this with class and optimism. I had a similar thing happen, and my softies and LPS are coming back. My SPS were toast and I also lost a few fish. Hard road to have someone who isn’t the owner take the tank over for more than a week or so. Best of luck and will be watching your journey!

I've been folllowing your tank for a very long time - you've had tonnes of success before, i have no doubt in my mindyou'll get the tank back on track. Good luck and looking forward to your rebuild! Now there's tonnes of opportunity to do any tweaks!

I am sorry to hear this. Take it easy and keep it up! Don't give up! :)

Dude gutted to see this. Got the same issue in my wb 110 about 3-4 months in. Luckily I was there to get a uv and get rid of at least the nasty type of Dino. Thanks for keeping it real and looking forward to how you move forward from here

Thanks for sharing the bad with the good. Best of luck in restarting - we're all rooting for you!

Sorry for your loss. I had Osteoporosis Dinos in my tank and beat it with running 100% royal blues. It took 4 months or so but steady reduction of Dinos worked for me. Just thought I would share if you travel again and have someone with limited knowledge babysitting the reef tank. Only Blues as a last result when Dino’s START to show and I believe it will get you by. Happy Reefing!

This is so heartbreaking. I'm so sorry. I do understand your position. I'm in the process of fighting the same thing myself.

Sorry to hear this, we all love the little world we handle in our house, so I really understand how you feel. I suffer everytime I am away for a while, and in fact there is always something happening, ready for me when back. These little worlds don't like us to be away, that's my learning. Just recently joined your channel, as I liked the contents, so I am looking forward to seeing your new videos, with renewed energy from new small successes, ready to come.

Thx for sharing I know that must have been a hard video to make. Hope you get back on the horse when it's time. Will be looking forward to seeing the next chapter

Nice to see you're back. Definitely sadden to hear the tank isn't in such a good shape. I definitely understand the aspect of motivation and energy. What we keep in our home is an artificial reef. As with anything that is artificial and like our pets, it need people that know what it need to maintain it, keep it healthy and growing. Your time away from the tank may be the longest I have heard from anyone without using a professional aquarium service to maintain it. Even with that, nothing is guarantee. Good to hear all except one of your fish is around. I am sure they appreciate you're back :). I look forward to seeing this blossoming back up.

Welcome back my friend! Sorry to hear about your tank.😢 I know it can be really hard to replace certain corals and fish, but I look forward to seeing the restoration.

Keep your head up man. Your tanks and videos have been inspiring me for years. I can’t wait to see you turn this around.

Thanks for sharing the update it sucks, but this can happen to any of us. I had cyinao and diatoms break out awhile back killed all of the torch corals. My in balance of nitrate and phosphates was out of whack. Lukcy corrected this by manual dosing and testing, and added clean up crew. I can't wait to see your reef bounce back and thriving.

Dude Sorry to hear about your tank. The longest I was away was 1 month in France for work. I fret enough just going away for 1 week. Well if you ever want to come across the border to Rochester I'd offer you some goodies to restart.

I feel for your loss. Staying away from the tank for a long time is a pretty hard situation.

sorry man. thank you for sharing. looking forward to seeing what this turns into!

Damn sorry to hear about this! You’ll bounce back though in no time! You got this!!

I appreciate you share not only good, but also bad. Let it be reminder for everyone how fragile our systems are. Sorry for your loss

Damn , would love to see an ICP on that situation , I am sorry for your losses .

I'm sorry for your loss and Kenny😔 The tank cleaned up really well and all your fish are good. Just remove all those skeletons from your scape and let it run for a while with the fish so it matures slowly and pop in a Coral or 2 at a time. You will get your enthusiasm back faster than you think,and you have a clean slate to create. 🐟🐟

I’ll try to match your enthusiasm when I say this but what a surprise ! As sad as it is , it is a lesson learned thank you for sharing the good and the bad so we can all learn. I agree with going slow this time cause I literally almost crashed my entire tank about a month ago only cause I was going to fast while doing a water change and failed to see some damaged cords

Good luck hop all goes well 🤞👍

That is really tough.. Happend to my tank when I was in Canada last summer. I love to travel and I love my tank.

So sorry dude....that sucks. I really enjoy watching your builds so I look forward to seeing more. I'm considering redoing my rockwork and I.m going to take it REALLY slow! I wonder if you had an ammonia and nitrite spike? would explain the deal snails...Best of luck on the reboot!

I am so sorry dude. Never give up

wow😮😮😮 sorry for your lost, hope to comeback stronger, keep reefing.

Only used Dino X? Same boat as you now but I caught it early, dosing Dino X to but have a few weeks to go once everything clears.

The tank always looked great. You'll have it beautiful again no problem.

I'm sorry Amro - I expected you would come back to a bad situation but not this bad. If anything it shows just how good you (we) are at looking after these ecosystems. It confirms to me it's not just about the basics but the care we put in and how we manage it if things start to decline. I'm sure it will be back relatively quickly. I'd get some Aquaforest Lifesource (not that I want to recommend AF) and some pods. I'm sure some bad bacteria or you lost diversity (so I wouldn't use bacteria in a bottle). Of course water changes and some clean up crew ;) Can't wait for the next video and its great (for us) you are back.

It is a blessing, time to setup a bigger tank.

I recently lost all my saltwater fish to Marin velvet and I almost said I quite the reef hubby but i said to meself stay strong and keep reefing.

I’m having the same problem with my tank. Working hard to fight it and get my parameters right. Lots of cleaning

Thsnks for sharing and sorry to hear. I know you'll come back stronger than ever!

Extremely sad all the best going forward .

Sorry to see this happen. I can barely trust anyone longer than a week with my tank unless it is reputable lfs but a trip to Hawaii for 3 months is hard to refuse. I encountered dinos once but it was very mild and ridiculous to get rid of before I found out the nutrient aspect of it. I will stay tuned for the come back.

I’m so sorry Amro, it must have been very disheartening to come back to this. I can for sure identify with the lack of energy and motivation - I think it takes a while to process this type of event and formulate a plan of action. And there’s a component of grief that we go through because of our attachment to the living creatures. I look forward to seeing your comeback, when the time is right for you. 🌊

So sorry, what a shame. But as usual gives a chance to reset. Shows how much we need to stay on top of maintenance. There are some signs of life on some of the corals. The fish overall don’t look to bad. Did you do a servicing of the whole tank, filters, water change about a week or so before you left?

Sorry about your tank!!! Question.... What are those blue face fishes??? Some sort of Damsels???

Sorry to hear this but glad you are back. Just a quick question is there a uv sterilizer running on this system?

Kenny is dead? Oh my gosh. This tank disaster is the nightmare which each Reefer dreams when they stay away. Anyway, the fishes are living and even the clam survived. This is something 👍

Crazy, the same thing happened to my tank which is the same 180 Waterbox this past month. Nutrients bottomed out and one by one all the acros died. Sorry to see this. You will rebound.

Ouch.. it sends shivers over my spine seeing that....succes with the recovery proces.. Such a technical setup and still things went bad.. it shows that not everything can be automated, manual intervention and maintanance keeps crucial.. A good lesson for all us other reefers... Did you determined the reason yet? My guess? Could it be the lack off filter socks (i reccomend a fleeceroll filter) ?.. i followed your previous sump video, i saw beginning algea, my guess the problem was building allready at that time.

If you were to do it all over again, and had to leave for an extended time, would you consider using a proper aquarium maintenance service company?

i think this could be a big chance for you. I bet many poeople in this hobby reach this at one point. You can use your situation now to start a series about how to revive it. Without simply buying everything new! Film every nasty step! I would love to see that happening.

This is why I automate everything. I have three very hi-res cameras PTZ cameras. One on the display, sump and behind the tank. I have a large hydros collective and every additive I use on dosers (about 20). The only thing I'm missing is an automated tester. You have to plan for absolutely everything. The worst feeling in the world is knowing your tank is crashing and you can't be home for two weeks.

Sorry to see this man.. when ever i set up a tank regardless or coraine algae i just always like to wait about a year before i add any delicate sps.. it really does make a difference as all the ugly stages get dealt with usually within the first year or so

Dayum. So sorry man, dinos suck so bad. I lost hundreds of snails to dinos, luckily didn’t have any corals in there at the time (tank was around a year old). Dry rock can really test our patience.

So sorry this happened to your tank!

This is why I'm regrettably selling my tank. I'm taking a job that will be having me to travel for about 85% of my career and I just don't want the added stress. I have had my clowns for over 5 years and it gonna be sad but I'd rather have them go to a owner who will hopefully take care of them.

Try dosing some vibrant. I had this similar issue a few months ago, and this resolved it in 3 weeks. It didn’t harm my mixed reef either.

I need some help and need to contact you. What's the best way to remove the sand bed?

You missed including a slither of good news which is before your tank took a turn for the worse. You fragged a backup of all your SPS, and they are doing well in my system for rebuild opportunity down the road. Let's see your tank cleaned up go for a 2nd round restart.

Reef keeping is a full time job

What kind of fish are the ones that look almost clear with a hint of blue ?

😪take care Man

You got a bad tank sitter. You should hired a maintenance company for the duration of time you left. 3 month is very long. Sorry for your lost.

Sucks man, I’ve lost a bunch of coral to bad Dino outbreak. Tank did look kinda cool with all the dead coral still planted lol

Sorry to hear

Turn the lights off if all the corals are dead. You’re just adding fuel to the fire otherwise.

Do you think that it was the nitrates and phosphate going to 0 that caused the whole collapse?

Thats terrible, horrible to see it. I had a large dino problem with my new tank, I found that adding lots of copepods helped with that problem. I found the BRS series on the tank biome very interesting and something we should treat as importantly as water chemistry IMO.

What a bummer!

What you going to do and forget you tank. same me just renew the tank a week ago

So Sorry to hear man! But I don’t understand how this can happen?..especially if you where able to communicate with tank sitter? (Who sux and owes you big time btw). Why didn’t he/she get in touch with LFS for emergency help when things weren’t getting better????

Sorry about that 😔

is the clam dead also?

Ouch man

Don’t pay that house sitter

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Not sure who your sitter is but man that sucks…..that would be enough to make me quit.

Sorry for your loses. This isn't your first rodeo with dinos, I'm sure you will solve it eventually.

Oh no:( After all these years of very hard work.. I'm so sorry!

:( sorry to see this

srry to hear, Damn, ...... I need to do a water change

You need a new tank sitter. Sad.

Sorry man, thanks for sharing

plz update，dont stop

I'm very sory about your lost your old thank you was looking amazing what ı blue you will le create New and better one. Can ı have aquestion in the with you us there are some fish witch Has blue head like group fish what are their names thank you very much

Dude take that clam to a friend's house

You have a massive bacterial bloom due to very low nutrients. Bacteria had nothing else to feed on when p04 and N03 ate at 0 so they start feeding on trace elements in the tank. This cause a imbalance in bacteria. And cause a big spike. And end result is were you are at.

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noooooooooo

I need an update

Can’t understand why people invest so much into this hobby plus the wellbeing of the animals just to go on vacations for long periods of time. I have been in this hobby sense the 70’s so sad you seem like a nice person but please stay out of the hobby till you’re able to retire then you can invest 100% of the time it takes. Hope the best for you ✌️

Trop de poisson dedans c'est n'importe quoi

That really sucks man..... tank just needs a complete reset imo....save bio filter....pull rocks and power wash em all....pull dead colonies....and hire aquarium service tech vs a tank sitter next time you go away like that