Tank Crashed

Jason25 · 02-20-2009, 10:36 AM

I am very sad to say that my system suffereda major crash 2 days ago and almost everything in my tank is gone sigh...... I am so upset I had corals in my tank that were almost 2 years old. I had 2 gorgous frog spawns that are both gone now. One of them was a frag from AL. I am heart broken. It is my fault that it happened to. I installed a durso stand pipe in my tank that slightly slowed down the flow to my sump. Weds. I got home from work to find the water level in my tank very close to the top and without thinking in a state of near panic I yanked the durso out. Well it didnt occur to me to check the level in my which was very low. The water rushed into the sump and without my knowledge at the time came in contact with one of "HOT" HEATERS. Well it cracked and I didn't realize it until yesterday which was too late. My tank got electrocuted and whatever else contaminated the water from the heater breaking. So I chucked in some carbon changed the filter sock and tonight I will do a 10gal water change and then tomorrow another 10. From the looks of it the only thing that is still alive are my 2 damsels. I am so upset I worked very hard to get my tank where it was and on top of losing my livestock, I also lost a couple hundred dollars with it. We all know that corals are cheap. If anyone has some frags they are willing to part with please let me know so I can start rebuilding my tank. SIGH.......

chuck116 · 02-20-2009, 10:44 AM

I am so sorry for your loss and bad luck.

BigAl07 · 02-20-2009, 10:50 AM

Aww man that SUCKS! I'm SO sorry buddy!! I'll make another frag for you when you get the tank back in order.

lcstorc · 02-20-2009, 10:51 AM

That stinks.
I had a heater explode like that once but fortunately I was there when it happened so I was able to deal with it.
Hopefully you will be able to salvage more than you think you can.

ReefLady · 02-20-2009, 11:02 AM

Wow, very sad. Really sorry to hear that. And it must be incredibly frustrating. I hope you can rebuild. Sorry about this.

Jason25 · 02-20-2009, 11:23 AM

I will rebuild it. That is not going to stop my love of this hobby. You can bet that will never happen to me again though. I was surprised that 2 of my corals looked like they bleached alomst instantly. It is very upsetting but my fault. It just goes to show that one can never be to careful. I am always very careful what I do with my tank so that this did not happen. One momentary lapse in judgement is all it takes.

michelle9491 · 02-20-2009, 11:53 AM

Maybe some of the corals will come back. I had 2 that took well over a month to come back to life after being shipped & nearly frozen.

rmlevasseur · 02-20-2009, 02:36 PM

Very sorry to hear this. Did you have your heaters on GFI circuits?? All this might have been avoided if you had. In the future consider putting your sump equipment on one circuit and your main tank powerheads and such on a second.

I have tons of white xenia I can send you when you are back up if interested.

BigAl07 · 02-20-2009, 02:57 PM

I swithed over to the "Stealth" heaters for this very reason. I too have "Busted" a heater from Thermal Shock just like this.

Hang in the Jason.
Quote:

We CAN rebuild it.. it will be stronger... faster....

oh sorry! That's an old TV show I used to water

(Six Million Dollar Man)

rmlevasseur · 02-20-2009, 04:09 PM

Thats one of the nice design changes I made when I switched from my Lifereef sump to a bigger one. With the Lifereef, it was possible for the sump to run dry. With my new sump, the water in the first chamber can never be drained below the first baffle. That's where I keep the heaters and skimmer.

miaskies · 02-21-2009, 03:00 AM

Sorry to hear that, I am doing a low tech tank. I don't use a heater because I have t-5's and a skilter with a warm motor, so the water stays at a constant 78 degrees. I never liked sumps, a lot of people had nitrate and flooding probs. I am beginning to think refugiums are an expensive ass piece of plastic. But that's just my opinion, I'm sure a lot of people who spent way too much on marketing schemes the industry has come out with will disagree. However, if you keep it simple, there is not a lot that can go wrong.

I know how it is to royally screw up a tank, I did it twice battling ick, but this time I am taking things waaay slower.

Reddog170 · 02-21-2009, 04:12 AM

Sorry to hear about your tank. I wish I had something I could frag for you. Well at least you know what not to do next time. Good luck, Shaun

Jason25 · 02-21-2009, 09:13 AM

Well 1 good piece of news I did find my yellow watchmen goby alive and well last night which is cool because he is my favorite little fish.

Jason25 · 02-21-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by rmlevasseur

Very sorry to hear this. Did you have your heaters on GFI circuits?? All this might have been avoided if you had. In the future consider putting your sump equipment on one circuit and your main tank powerheads and such on a second.

I have tons of white xenia I can send you when you are back up if interested.

Thank you very much, all of my xenia that I did have melted away.

Jason25 · 02-21-2009, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by BigAl07

Aww man that SUCKS! I'm SO sorry buddy!! I'll make another frag for you when you get the tank back in order.

Thanks Al, I was upset that the green polpys you sent me dided as well they were so pretty.

02-20-2009, 10:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jason25 Elegance coral Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lancaster,PA Posts: 1,117 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Tank Crashed I am very sad to say that my system suffereda major crash 2 days ago and almost everything in my tank is gone sigh...... I am so upset I had corals in my tank that were almost 2 years old. I had 2 gorgous frog spawns that are both gone now. One of them was a frag from AL. I am heart broken. It is my fault that it happened to. I installed a durso stand pipe in my tank that slightly slowed down the flow to my sump. Weds. I got home from work to find the water level in my tank very close to the top and without thinking in a state of near panic I yanked the durso out. Well it didnt occur to me to check the level in my which was very low. The water rushed into the sump and without my knowledge at the time came in contact with one of "HOT" HEATERS. Well it cracked and I didn't realize it until yesterday which was too late. My tank got electrocuted and whatever else contaminated the water from the heater breaking. So I chucked in some carbon changed the filter sock and tonight I will do a 10gal water change and then tomorrow another 10. From the looks of it the only thing that is still alive are my 2 damsels. I am so upset I worked very hard to get my tank where it was and on top of losing my livestock, I also lost a couple hundred dollars with it. We all know that corals are cheap. If anyone has some frags they are willing to part with please let me know so I can start rebuilding my tank. SIGH.......

02-20-2009, 10:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
chuck116 Ricordea Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 187 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Tank Crashed I am so sorry for your loss and bad luck.

02-20-2009, 10:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
BigAl07 Do I look as lost as I am Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Waynesville, North Carolina Posts: 21,549 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Tank Crashed Aww man that SUCKS! I'm SO sorry buddy!! I'll make another frag for you when you get the tank back in order. __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Live Rock Rubble will do the SAME thing as Bio-Balls and is NOT a suitable replacement for BIO-BALLS in a Reef System! It's ALL gotta go!!* Nitrate (NO3) reduction is directly proportional to percentage of Water Change. Allen's home-made formula...currentNO3-((%WC.01)currentNO3)=finalNO3 (thanks Luukosian) This means if you change 50% of your total water volume (That's EVERYTHING) you'll get a net reduction of (NO3) somewhere around 50%. Ask me about how to increase your REEF budget without going without FOOD!!* Big Al's 10g Julie's (BigAl's Gal) 6g NanoCube Gone but not forgotten BigAl's Slow 90g Tank Chronicle Allens OFFICE 12g Nano-Reef

02-20-2009, 10:51 AM	#4 (permalink)
lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 26,433 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Tank Crashed That stinks. I had a heater explode like that once but fortunately I was there when it happened so I was able to deal with it. Hopefully you will be able to salvage more than you think you can. __________________ Peace LYNN Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Lynn's frag tank experiment A reef tank is like a race car. The faster you go the harder you crash.

02-20-2009, 11:02 AM	#5 (permalink)
ReefLady Tridacna maxima Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 4,590 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Tank Crashed Wow, very sad. Really sorry to hear that. And it must be incredibly frustrating. I hope you can rebuild. Sorry about this. __________________ ~ Teri -------- "You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice." ~(currently tankless)~ Our 180g sps tank / DIY adventure (taken down in late 2006): Our 180g DIY Reef Project ---What's next????

02-20-2009, 11:23 AM	#6 (permalink)
Jason25 Elegance coral Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lancaster,PA Posts: 1,117 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Tank Crashed I will rebuild it. That is not going to stop my love of this hobby. You can bet that will never happen to me again though. I was surprised that 2 of my corals looked like they bleached alomst instantly. It is very upsetting but my fault. It just goes to show that one can never be to careful. I am always very careful what I do with my tank so that this did not happen. One momentary lapse in judgement is all it takes.

02-20-2009, 11:53 AM	#7 (permalink)
michelle9491 Neon dottyback Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Asheville, NC Posts: 690 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Tank Crashed Maybe some of the corals will come back. I had 2 that took well over a month to come back to life after being shipped & nearly frozen. __________________ Michelle

02-20-2009, 02:36 PM	#8 (permalink)
rmlevasseur Acropora Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,849 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Tank Crashed Very sorry to hear this. Did you have your heaters on GFI circuits?? All this might have been avoided if you had. In the future consider putting your sump equipment on one circuit and your main tank powerheads and such on a second. I have tons of white xenia I can send you when you are back up if interested. __________________ Robert http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ufas-tank.html

02-20-2009, 04:09 PM	#10 (permalink)
rmlevasseur Acropora Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,849 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Tank Crashed Thats one of the nice design changes I made when I switched from my Lifereef sump to a bigger one. With the Lifereef, it was possible for the sump to run dry. With my new sump, the water in the first chamber can never be drained below the first baffle. That's where I keep the heaters and skimmer. __________________ Robert http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ufas-tank.html

02-21-2009, 03:00 AM	#11 (permalink)
miaskies Limpet Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 140 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Tank Crashed Sorry to hear that, I am doing a low tech tank. I don't use a heater because I have t-5's and a skilter with a warm motor, so the water stays at a constant 78 degrees. I never liked sumps, a lot of people had nitrate and flooding probs. I am beginning to think refugiums are an expensive ass piece of plastic. But that's just my opinion, I'm sure a lot of people who spent way too much on marketing schemes the industry has come out with will disagree. However, if you keep it simple, there is not a lot that can go wrong. I know how it is to royally screw up a tank, I did it twice battling ick, but this time I am taking things waaay slower.

02-21-2009, 04:12 AM	#12 (permalink)
Reddog170 Achilles Tang Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Winfield, IA Posts: 877 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Tank Crashed Sorry to hear about your tank. I wish I had something I could frag for you. Well at least you know what not to do next time. Good luck, Shaun __________________ We are defined by the choices in whitch we make. http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...t-sw-tank.html Moved to 100 http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ing-100-a.html VISIT MY CLUB SITE: www.iowareefs.com Ask me about Iowa reef events!

02-21-2009, 09:13 AM	#13 (permalink)
Jason25 Elegance coral Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lancaster,PA Posts: 1,117 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Tank Crashed Well 1 good piece of news I did find my yellow watchmen goby alive and well last night which is cool because he is my favorite little fish.

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