Unexplained heat kill some fish last night????

[thebigdog]

Danny, no calcium reactor.
I also had a similar experience with my freshwater tank before.
Injected CO2 for the plants and the fish could'nt get enough air.

thank you anyway

It sounds like something I did years ago when I hooked up my calcium reactor, too much CO2 in the tank & all fish were on their sides breathing very heavy. Over the years my tanks have gone above 90 & no fish loss, corals yes. Do you have a reactor, if the answer is yes then check CO2 if not sorry that I could not help & sorry for your losses.

 

[thebigdog]

KathyC,

Yes it was all this morning
I was in a state of panic and had no bags of ice on hand to cool things.

I'm using 3 Hagan aquaclear 70 in total
Two in the tank and one for the sump returm.

Taking your advise of the Fluval, pumps, and sump.


thank you

This was all this morning?
You should have brought the temp back down gradually ! A 14 degree drop is a short period of time is asking for even more issues with the tank

Yesterday was a humid day - that makes more of a difference than a day like Saturday was with no humidity, so yes, your tank temp could have climbed quite a bit.

What type of return pump are you using?

I would hook the skimmer, pumps & sump back up - what you need most in that tank right now is oxygen and the oxygen exhange at the waters surface that you get from the powerheads and interaction with the sump.

If a pump had shorted out (I doubt it) it would have stopped working, not continued heating the tank.

If you have a Fluval on there - you need to dump ALL of the contents of it now as the bacteria inside of it is now dead (closed system, no oxygen in there at all without water flowing through it). If you turn it back on & send it's dead contents back into thw tank - you can easily wipe out ALL life in your tank.

 

[thebigdog]

NYreefNoob,

Temp was close to 80 at my bedtime of 10 pm.
Woke up at 5:30 am and temp was 90.

I use Salifert test kits

thanks

if the temp was up over a period of time easily could have caued the lack of oxygen and did that too them, what kits u using to check parms and how long was temp up that high ?

 

[thebigdog]

Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions

Topic CLOSED...:dog:
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[vdub-reef]

Same thing happen to me over the weekend didn't notic till I saw my mushroom close and my acans closed super tight personaly I think it's the humidity that NYC been haveing need to put ice cube and now I'm leaving on my ac


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[PeterD]

same thing happened to me but it bleached my coral

 

[thebigdog]

My Arctica 1/10 hp chiller comes out of my garage by the end of the week.

 

[seldin]

Are your heaters on a controller? Obviously, the heat is one problem. I would also check if there is stray voltage from a damaged or defective equipment.

For me, a while back, I had a bad heater, that produced stray current for a few weeks. Finally, the heater blew up, and I knew what the problem was. However, corals did heal nicely, but I had lost a shrimp.