Long story short, I've had my 125 tank running for a few years with tons of corals, amazing growth and i couldn't be happier. Then I got bored and started tinkering to try to make my setup as silent as possible.
This lead me to searching on the forums where I found some stuff called "SORBOTHANE" which really does work. Its a rubber that works flawless for cutting down on vibration for skimmer, return pump etc.
Here's where i dropped the ball........ I missed the part about keeping it in a ziplock bag so now it has leached into my tank and killed almost all my coral. My fish are fine though.
Ive restarted my tank with little luck. Now my new corals are dying, but not as quickly. I cleaned everything top to bottom and let my rocks sit outside for a few days. Gave them a good rinse and let them sit in salt water with a pump running for 24 hours, then another tub of fresh salt for 24 hours.
I'm not sure what the F else to do besides buy new sand again and new rock this time around.
Just incase someone suggests some chemical treatments... I'm running carbon, brs gfo and chemipure blue. I was told to try poly filter by my lfs, but they have never dealt with this before and said to try this before a bleach and bake of my rocks if i wanted to avoid new ones.
Thank you in advance!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbothane
"The material combines some of the properties of rubber, silicone, and other elastic polymers. It is considered to be a good vibration damping material, an acoustic insulator, and highly durable. An unusually high amount of the energy from an object dropped onto Sorbothane is absorbed. The feel and damping qualities of Sorbothane have been likened to those of meat.
Sorbothane is a visco-elastic material, meaning that it exhibits properties of both liquids (viscoussolutions) and solids (elastic materials), with a relaxation time of two seconds.[4] Because visco-elastic behavior is desirable in shock and vibration applications, many materials claim to be viscoelastic; however, many of these materials have only trace viscoelastic properties.[citation needed]
Similar materials include polynorbornene, Noene, and Astro-sorb."
This lead me to searching on the forums where I found some stuff called "SORBOTHANE" which really does work. Its a rubber that works flawless for cutting down on vibration for skimmer, return pump etc.
Here's where i dropped the ball........ I missed the part about keeping it in a ziplock bag so now it has leached into my tank and killed almost all my coral. My fish are fine though.
Ive restarted my tank with little luck. Now my new corals are dying, but not as quickly. I cleaned everything top to bottom and let my rocks sit outside for a few days. Gave them a good rinse and let them sit in salt water with a pump running for 24 hours, then another tub of fresh salt for 24 hours.
I'm not sure what the F else to do besides buy new sand again and new rock this time around.
Just incase someone suggests some chemical treatments... I'm running carbon, brs gfo and chemipure blue. I was told to try poly filter by my lfs, but they have never dealt with this before and said to try this before a bleach and bake of my rocks if i wanted to avoid new ones.
Thank you in advance!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbothane
"The material combines some of the properties of rubber, silicone, and other elastic polymers. It is considered to be a good vibration damping material, an acoustic insulator, and highly durable. An unusually high amount of the energy from an object dropped onto Sorbothane is absorbed. The feel and damping qualities of Sorbothane have been likened to those of meat.
Sorbothane is a visco-elastic material, meaning that it exhibits properties of both liquids (viscoussolutions) and solids (elastic materials), with a relaxation time of two seconds.[4] Because visco-elastic behavior is desirable in shock and vibration applications, many materials claim to be viscoelastic; however, many of these materials have only trace viscoelastic properties.[citation needed]
Similar materials include polynorbornene, Noene, and Astro-sorb."
