Tank Crash

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Not sure the cause yet but the crash is severe, luckily this is my rock tank where minimal live stock is there.


After surfing MR ~5:30 am, checked the tanks, went to sleep, wake at around 12:00 with a headache and when I see the tank I have a bigger headache.

It turns from clear water into this cloudy water in less than 6 hours. One hated camel back shrimp which a member gave me as a coral banded died. All critters, cluding brittle worms, amphipods, copepods, came out from the rock -looks like looking for air or something. A hermit and a turbo snail survived and I moved them to another tank. The only major animal left is an anemone. The tank is way too cloudy to find see where it is.

So far besides either the water is too hot or the anemone get chopped up by the powerhead, there are no new clues to what have happened.

The ph went down to 7.8 and ammonia is at ~1.5!!!!

In the SW water world, things change very quickly. Before, I went to sleep I was still trying to fight off the shrimp not to eat the new kenya tree and the scallop I got free from a member.

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[House of Laughter]

Is there a skimmer on this rock tank?

House

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

nope, i basically use this tank for QT rocks and put unwanted guys there.

Algae on the glass were from the time when I put about 50lbs of rocks from a member who broke down his tank last week. Water has been clear all along though until this afternoon

Saved two more giant turbos

 

[inkblue]

:bigeyes2::happysad::eek1:

houst0n, we have a proBlem...

 

[jhale]

damn Wingo, wtf happened there?!

not much help I can give without more info.
something might have died overnight that was in the rocks you did not know about.
get a skimmer on there and do the largest water change you can.

 

[Zoous]

I think it was a heat related issue. Especially when it was pretty warm yesterday and probably the anemone died and polluted the water. Then again it could be anything.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

damn Wingo, wtf happened there?!

not much help I can give without more info.
something might have died overnight that was in the rocks you did not know about.
get a skimmer on there and do the largest water change you can.

Last time I had a similiar cloudy water is when a lobster (typo: should be oyster) melt. I double check that there isn't one this time(at least it's not mine nor am I aware of.) The new non electric scallop that fastuno gave me two days ago does not look too good currently-it moves but the tentacles do not look too right(could be shrunk or even eatened). Moved it to my refuge area of my Ecosystems. Hope it makes it through.


I hardly remembers my breakfast in the morning so I cannot remember everything that I may have done that caused it or is it the weather.

Hmm.

-unplugged some caulaper from the powerhead and gave it to another member
-tried to use a stick with a sponge to clean the glass but no luck, the aglae are too stuck on the glass. My regular magnet is in the club.
-added less than half gallon of RO water
-unplug some hair/bubble aglae from the new rock

-ate next to the tank and dropped a pizza and a pcs of chicken wing into the tank J/K J/K
-dosed strange stuff like tonyscoots said J/K J/K again

still have not found my anemone

Will try to search for a dead body of star fish because I did see his claws when I got the rocks.

Don't tell me I found another sixelines. I picked up his rocks in 2 5G buckets with water and sit them in a 40G rectangle rubbermaid just in case water spill. I forgot to bring the lids for the 5G, so I just let them open in the trunk. By the time I get back to my place, I found a sixline jumped out of the 5g and on the rubbermaid. So sad, my friend's driving technique is so good that there isn't any water spill to the rubbermaid. The fish did not live. Neither the member, me nor my friend who helped to take the rocks realized there is a sixlines in the hole. He thought that he has lost it long long time ago.

 

[DEEPWATER]

what is the temp of the tank ?

 

[SlamaJama]

:wink1: sounds wing-nutty to me....:smash:

 

[DEEPWATER]

:wink1: sounds wing-nutty to me....:smash:

LMAO !!!!!!:type:

 

[meschaefer]

Are you dosing Kalk or some other calcium supplment, could be carbonate precipitation.

 

[barebucta]

Not sure the cause yet but the crash is severe, luckily this is my rock tank where minimal live stock is there.


After surfing MR ~5:30 am, checked the tanks, went to sleep, wake at around 12:00 with a headache and when I see the tank I have a bigger headache.

It turns from clear water into this cloudy water in less than 6 hours. One hated camel back shrimp which a member gave me as a coral banded died. All critters, cluding brittle worms, amphipods, copepods, came out from the rock -looks like looking for air or something. A hermit and a turbo snail survived and I moved them to another tank. The only major animal left is an anemone. The tank is way too cloudy to find see where it is.

So far besides either the water is too hot or the anemone get chopped up by the powerhead, there are no new clues to what have happened.

The ph went down to 7.8 and ammonia is at ~1.5!!!!

In the SW water world, things change very quickly. Before, I went to sleep I was still trying to fight off the shrimp not to eat the new kenya tree and the scallop I got free from a member.

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Geez Wing sorry to hear about that,

Hey when I gave you the camel back shrimp, I though you knew it was a camel back and not reef safe....check the link http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/sale-trade/11895-free-camel-back-shrimp.html

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

I think it was a heat related issue. Especially when it was pretty warm yesterday and probably the anemone died and polluted the water. Then again it could be anything.

I agree.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Geez Wing sorry to hear about that,

Hey when I gave you the camel back shrimp, I though you knew it was a camel back and not reef safe....check the link http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/sale-trade/11895-free-camel-back-shrimp.html

No worry I know it is not reef safe and it does not bother other stuff in my rock tank but the new addition of a scallop. BTW that's why I put it in the rock tank.


I was sleeping when this happened so did not know how hot it got.

I did dose some cal supplyment but it was 1 day(more than 24 hours) before it happened

Death Toll

A shrimp died
The scallop did not make it either :headache:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

sorry to here about this wingo..... you must feel like :banghead:ing ur head.... so did u ever find the anemone... i wouldnt even no were to start to help ya without more info.. such as mentioned already... sorry wingo good luck discovering what happened..

 

[Chris5]

Looks like another problem for ALGONE to take care of lol :skull:...All joking aside everyone on here knows my green/cloudy water nightmare and that stuff worked!!

Had the same thing basically happen my tank after a long weekend in FL, it killed everything when it got cloudy except my fish, so i guess i got lucky there....hey if nothing else works break down and buy that stuff and see what happens, ...:grouphug:

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Are you dosing Kalk or some other calcium supplment, could be carbonate precipitation.

Upon dosing calcium additives, will the PH goes higher or lower and how soon the reaction will take place? Do we see immediate effects or over a period time?

Hmm.... I think I followed the instructions.
Sighhhhh never fond of using chemicals, so confusing for a confused person:smash: to start with.

thanks

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Looks like another problem for ALGONE to take care of lol :skull:...All joking aside everyone on here knows my green/cloudy water nightmare and that stuff worked!!

Had the same thing basically happen my tank after a long weekend in FL, it killed everything when it got cloudy except my fish, so i guess i got lucky there....hey if nothing else works break down and buy that stuff and see what happens, ...:grouphug:

After finding the the cause, and if all else faill to clear the water up and if the algae is blooming, I will try ALGONE just to see how well it works.

In my case, and at this stage, algae is not blooming but dying. After couple days who knows.

 

[masterswimmer]

Wingo, HUGE water change and try to get a skimmer on there.
You've got to start lowering that ammonia. If there's a way to find the anemone, I would. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that was the problem. Anemone + powerheads = disater.

JM $.02
swimmer

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Water clear up two days ago witha ayellow tint.


Aftermath:

-found the anemone and dying (presumed dead) looks like the milky muddy water is not anemone chowder

-a coral back shrimp dead
-a scallop dead
-couple snails
-MAJOR AGLAE DEATH.