- Location
- Overland Park, KS
when you're ready, you just let me know. If you can come to me, I've got plenty for you. Hope it all stabilizes soon!
Worst Night Ever
- Thread starter aznt1217
- Start date
fallenlordz
Cant hear you under Water
- Location
- Fresh Meadows, NY
Sorry to hear about your tank :headache:
Hope you find the culprit.
Hope you find the culprit.
I'm using Reef Crystals. Not sure how they would go bad? The container was sealed. I mean there's no real way for me to test this right?
I am not going to QT anything I mean... why would I stress everything in there out more.
I'm just going to wait and see what happens tomorrow.
I am not going to QT anything I mean... why would I stress everything in there out more.
I'm just going to wait and see what happens tomorrow.
- Location
- Wallingford, CT
Have you added any livestock recently? Do you use cucumbers for a sandbed?
I had the exact same thing happen with my Bartlett's Anthias. I had a harem of 4 or 5 (i cant remember exactly) that were all fine for about six months, then I woke up one morning to find them all dead. Absolutely no warning whatsoever. I ran a full set of tests after that and everything was fine. It was more than a year ago that this happened, and I am still trying to figure out what caused it.
- Location
- Westchester, N.Y
If you lost some coral at first them some fish. Sounds to me your coral release toxins to your water causing mult rection to other things dying off. Your water might be full of toxins not that your water par are bad.
You mention losing 5 fish overnight in your first post but you only found the body of 1 fish? Have you founs all of the bodies yet? I don't believe that even a large clean up crew would be able to dispose of that many fish that quickly -- you need to find the bodies
What is your ammonia reading at this point?
You can test your bucket of salt by making a small batch and running all of your test kits on it to see what the readings are.
I also do not think the temp was a factor at all. I would be more suspicious of the water change in regard to the frogspawn dying - was the new water directed toward the frogspawn when you refilled the tank?
One last question - didn't you just recently upgrade your tank? Was the cycle complete? Did you add new L/R or sand just recently?
Hey Kathy,
-I didn't upgrade yet... the 125 is just sitting there calling my name. lol
-I found the bodies of the big fish. I had 3 little Anthias... which were the size of my nassarius snails. I suspect they were devoured. My ammonia came out 0.
-I did the water change after my corals started suffering I mixed my salt pretty well. I run it with a Koralia 4 and a MaxiJet Sureflow 1600. I made sure there was no granular elements as I have made this mistake before.
-I can't imagine a spike or drastic change in water that could happen in such a short amount of time. I mean literally it was loss after loss after loss. Perhaps the humidity affected the tank?
-I am hoping this Poly Filter can help me remove anything that may have been secreted. Coral wise or anything else in the water. I also changed my RODI filters before I did my water change even though I didn't have to.
-I didn't upgrade yet... the 125 is just sitting there calling my name. lol
-I found the bodies of the big fish. I had 3 little Anthias... which were the size of my nassarius snails. I suspect they were devoured. My ammonia came out 0.
-I did the water change after my corals started suffering I mixed my salt pretty well. I run it with a Koralia 4 and a MaxiJet Sureflow 1600. I made sure there was no granular elements as I have made this mistake before.
-I can't imagine a spike or drastic change in water that could happen in such a short amount of time. I mean literally it was loss after loss after loss. Perhaps the humidity affected the tank?
-I am hoping this Poly Filter can help me remove anything that may have been secreted. Coral wise or anything else in the water. I also changed my RODI filters before I did my water change even though I didn't have to.
The Poly filter can give you a clue if you used the one that changes color based on what it is absorbing. It would be interesting to know what color it changes to.
Regarding changing the rodi filters - how long did you let the water run after changing them??? Did you check the water first with a TDS meter before using it ??
No, not an effect of humidity or we'd all have dead tanks
I made about 4/5 Gallons of the new water... best estimate. I probably should've let it go for 10 but at that point I was in like Defcon 3 mode and wanted new water in the tank ASAP.
I would've used a TDS meter but I lent it to another reefer so I just did what I did last time.
I also want to add... it freakin hurt waking up to look at my 40 head frogspawn skeleton.
I would've used a TDS meter but I lent it to another reefer so I just did what I did last time.
I also want to add... it freakin hurt waking up to look at my 40 head frogspawn skeleton.
- Location
- Staten Island
=/ I remember that just a few weeks agooo..Is the frag tank still good atleast?
- Location
- Staten Island
maybe you should..put them in the frag tank? or atleast as much as you can fit..if you need me to hold down some of your frags to make room for the big stuff I can
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