fishpuncher
Reefing newb
Hey everyone, newbie here. Ok, so the CT, Maritime Aquarium where my buddy works was getting rid of a tank filled with leather coral attached to some nice fiji live rock. I filled two 30 gallon garbage cans with the water from the tank and all the rock which also had anemones, bristle worms, snails etc. I had in my tank only the substrate and the salt water that had been in there running for about 2 weeks. I came home with the goods, drained most of the tank water, filled the tank with the live rock and added the water from the garbage cans from the other tank. The tank did fine till I added 5 fish 2 days later. About 30 hours passed and everything is completely dead. My question is what happened and where do I go from here. I'm guessing I remove all the dead coral, fish anemones etc and let the tank cycle and check all my chemical levels for zero then proceed? Any help would be great.