almost everything is dead!!!!!!!!!
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KimPossible
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Varga,
I am soooo sorry to hear this tragedy. I agree in regards to the xenia, they look irritated not dying. Yes, I see your that your snails are stressed, hanging on the best they can.
The best of the as far as we know two evils, is that your tank had a jolt that caused all this damage. If so, a part from the direct effect on coral and fish, I wonder how the oxygen level would be affected, and its continued affect until being restored.
Keep up with the carbon and water changes. I'm hoping for the very best.
I am soooo sorry to hear this tragedy. I agree in regards to the xenia, they look irritated not dying. Yes, I see your that your snails are stressed, hanging on the best they can.
The best of the as far as we know two evils, is that your tank had a jolt that caused all this damage. If so, a part from the direct effect on coral and fish, I wonder how the oxygen level would be affected, and its continued affect until being restored.
Keep up with the carbon and water changes. I'm hoping for the very best.
blue_eyes53813
Well-Known Member
Man This really stinks... I am so sorry, I wish there was something I could do.. This has to be the worst day ever for you... Hang in there..
nikkipigtails
Well-Known Member
I'm so sorry about your tank crash. Hopefully it wasn't copper and you can save the majority of your tank inhabitants. We'll do the best we can to help you out. Keep doing the water changes and running carbon. It looks like it's helping a little. Kim's right...your xenias look irritated, not dead.
prow
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just a geuss here, but pesticide or weed killers in the lawn could have got on/in the pump, like otheres here suggested. cleanning it with vinagar might have done some good. whatever it was your doing the right things now with heavey skimming, carbon and water changes. i also agree with adding O2, if nothing else a couple airstones to help out and increased flow, esp at the surface. hope things start to look better soon, keep us posted.
o, though its likey the pump at the root of the problem, have you tested your RO/DI water for chlorines?
o, though its likey the pump at the root of the problem, have you tested your RO/DI water for chlorines?
Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
Sorry but I don't buy the pump theory at all. IMHO Kim is right it is either O2, a current leak or a dead animal that raised the ammonia up to dangerous levels. If there is no ammonia then it is one of the other two. It all sounds more like lack of O2 during the night for some reason.
Cooper in tank, the inverts will be the first to go and not the fish and that snail is still alive and the same fro "feed killers". Many reefers have woken up to a tank like yours in the morning and 99 % of the time it is little O2 or a dead fish. If you put a Polyfilter in the tank and it turns any shade of blue within a few hours, then only will I buy the cooper theory.
Cooper in tank, the inverts will be the first to go and not the fish and that snail is still alive and the same fro "feed killers". Many reefers have woken up to a tank like yours in the morning and 99 % of the time it is little O2 or a dead fish. If you put a Polyfilter in the tank and it turns any shade of blue within a few hours, then only will I buy the cooper theory.
With the lack of O2 the fish would certainly have died before the corals as corals don't have as high an O2 demand as fish.
Sounds like some kind of chemical event that you can't test for. Any disgruntled wives, friends, children around? Could someone have poured something into the tank or sprayed something into the air near the tank?
Sounds like some kind of chemical event that you can't test for. Any disgruntled wives, friends, children around? Could someone have poured something into the tank or sprayed something into the air near the tank?
That's right. Dang I missed the "Dead Fish". They can handle (to a certain extent) copper levels.