- Location
- Manhattan
Hey guys, I was previously running a 20l, with a 10gal sump. I had a really bad bacterial bloom, and took that as a sign to upgrade to the ~60 gallon I had sitting in my living room for a year. I attempted to do it all in one day; trying to both save my fish/coral, and to please my upgrade demon lol. It ended up taking two days, and two LONG nights. When I first set things up, I didn't have enough water to make 70 gallons, so I had to wait for that. I wake up the next morning to find the tank I held my coral in FREEZING. I immediately check the plug, and it turns out the heater is bad. I swap out the heaters, praying that all my corals are holding on for another few hours. I final have the water. being the impatient person I am, I mix the water in the tank, putting the salt in the DT, and the water in the sump, and pumping it up. The salt I used was IO reef crystals, even though I usually use regular IO. The first problem I run into is a leak in the bulkhead. It takes a good half hour to tighten, and seal the bulkhead. I then continue to fill the tank to the drain, and I see that the pump is pumping faster then the bulkhead is draining. They are both 2.5" holes, with a mag 7.5 as the return pump. I see if I can just drain a little water back into the sump, by shutting off the pump for three seconds, and it doesn't turn on again. This floods a good five-ten gallons onto the floor of my 20 story apt building... Keep in mind, this happens more then once. I remembers I had one of those valve that keep the flow in one direction, so I dismember the PVC, and I put that in. I let it dry for about four hours. It's now about ten at night, and I cant seem to find a way to get the flow regulated, but realize it's just a kink in the vinyl tubing. After about one hour of trying to fix something that was right in front of me, I realize that it's making this TERRIBLE slurping noise. When I finish googling about fixes for about another hour, I figure out that all I need to do is add a ball valve in front of the pump, so it restricts the slow only by a little. I would say it's about midnight, and with water everywhere I only had one dry power strip this entire time. It wasn't powering the heater in my holding tank. When I go to put in the fish and coral, to see what's still alive, I notice the water is cloudy as hell. It's been like that since I added the salt. Being as exhausted as I was, I chose just to add the fish in, by temperature acclimating them. I throw them in the tank that looks like NYC on Feb 9th. When I wake up the next morning, their's a disgusting smell coming from the holding tank. Both of my RBTAs died, and basically nuked the tank (I'm guessing). I start fishing out corals, and notice that every single one of them has little to no flesh, and the ones that do have flesh, are extremely sick looking. I choose to toss them into the tank (which is only a little less cloudy) anyways. It's been a rough two days, and nights for me, and my fish. All my fish are fine, except my yellow tang. He looks stressed, and is only staying in a corner. Any thoughts? if anyone wants to take a look at the corals that are holding on, they are welcome to come over, and pick what they want. I just ask that if it does survive, they don't sell the frags, but post it in DBTC.
Here's a list off the top of my head:
- Zoas:
Sunny D's
Vivid Rainbow's
Devils Armor
Rastas
Gbay packers
Scrambled Eggs
Utter Chaos
24k's
Dragon eyes
Radioactive dragon eyes
(most likely a few more kinds.)
- SPS
Sunset monti
Jedi mindtrick monti
Chili pepper monti
Sunset mili
Forestfire Digi
(Most SPS I have are from Sunny, I don't know the names of the others, but they are really good looking.)
- LPS
Lots of different kinds of hammers
Frog Spawn
A few nice chalices that I don't know the names of, I just paid a nice amount, because they look nice
elegance coral
A few Acans
(Most likely more that I cant remember)
I also have one cleaner shrimp that is doing terrible. He looks like hes dead, but I think hes in shock. He moves around when you go near him.
Thanks, Luke
TLDR: my tank crashed and I ****ed up a lot of coral in the process. Has this ever happened to anyone?
Here's a list off the top of my head:
- Zoas:
Sunny D's
Vivid Rainbow's
Devils Armor
Rastas
Gbay packers
Scrambled Eggs
Utter Chaos
24k's
Dragon eyes
Radioactive dragon eyes
(most likely a few more kinds.)
- SPS
Sunset monti
Jedi mindtrick monti
Chili pepper monti
Sunset mili
Forestfire Digi
(Most SPS I have are from Sunny, I don't know the names of the others, but they are really good looking.)
- LPS
Lots of different kinds of hammers
Frog Spawn
A few nice chalices that I don't know the names of, I just paid a nice amount, because they look nice
elegance coral
A few Acans
(Most likely more that I cant remember)
I also have one cleaner shrimp that is doing terrible. He looks like hes dead, but I think hes in shock. He moves around when you go near him.
Thanks, Luke
TLDR: my tank crashed and I ****ed up a lot of coral in the process. Has this ever happened to anyone?
