[wickjr]

I stopped by a fish store I've been going to for years about a month ago. It is a private owned store, run by a husband and wife. Anyway, they have had a 300 gallon reef display tank set up for 16 years. This thing is immaculate. Well.....it was. The owner was away for a few days, and while he was away, someone cleaned a section of carpet close to the tank with some sort of carpet cleaner chemical. I didn't catch the brand name of the cleaner, but long story short, the tank is wiped out. The basketball sized anenmome that has been in there as long as I've been going there and several different corals, all dead. The only thing that survived was a Clarks anenome fish(clown), a very large one.
Obviously a protein skimmer draws in outside air. I would assume that the fumes from the cleaner got into the water and killed everything. It would be hard to start over after something like that.





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