tank crash

Dear all knowing R2R, it’s been a fun ride building this tank but today it seems something was way off, almost everything is dying - I’m curious what the major issue could be, all information I provide may or may not be relevant. Is it bacterial? Acros(dying): are turning a little light...

Have you ever had a tank crash? If so, what caused it, and what did you change to be sure it won’t happen again?

Howdy All! Thanks for taking a glance, I'm in need of some advice or guidance. TLDR; Tank crashed due to a dosing pump malfunction, currently broken down, and am trying to make sure I follow the proper "cleaning/prep" as I re-build it back after taking it down due to extent of the crash...

Went on Christmas vacation (8 days had mom feed the fish/dose and watch it we just didn’t tell her about the water level bc we thought ato was not an issue) and when we got home the tank salinity was really high (not sure how high as we don’t have a refractometer just a basic one that goes up to...

Hello, I have a 450 gallon system and it appears to be in the midst of a crash. I dosed the normal things I do everyday, 15 mls 99.5% ethyl alcohol and 20 mls distilled white vinegar for carbon dosing, 44ml all for reef, and 33ml chaeto gro for my fuge. Everything was fine in the tank before I...

Hey everyone, I've finally decided to get started again after a year of not touching my tank and could use some advice. Around last Thanksgiving while at a tech conference in Vegas, there was a power outage, and my apex for whatever reason didn't kick back on after power returned. I came home...

Ok so before i even get to the salinity part, i had a major tank crash while i was in isolation for bad covid. I had no idea the chillers pipe came loose and wasnt pumping water into the chiller so the tank boiled at 33c for probably 4 days and crashed and i only found out a few days later. I...

Hi guys, Yesterday i went back from a 4 days trip to find out that my chiller was leaking a bit. Well, that wouldn’t be much of a problem if i didn’t had an automatic fresh water(deionized) refill system. Short story: It reached 1010 salinity and (obviously) that was enough to kill 98% of the...

Hi all. I've been on these threads a while but unfortunately this is my first post. About a month ago I lost my tank to an electrical fire in my controller cabinet. Worst of all is I lost one of my dogs. I was pretty tidy with my electrical as I had made a controller board. Tank was up a year...

My tank crashed This was the series of events that caused this: Reef flux added 24hours later crazy ammonia spike - why this happened I’m not sure - like off key maxed out my testing kit and I wondered how everything was still alive. Fish okay. Some of my corals look ticked. Urchin was...

Finally feeling ok enough to talk about this as coming back from 2-weeks in Europe, I returned to my fish tank with the vast majority of my fish community completely obliterated. I’m still a little numb to all this, constantly waivering between exiting the hobby and trying to salvage and...

I am in trouble. Had a thriving tank up until I did an ICP test and noticed phosphates were out of control at 2.1ppm - ended up dropping it to 0.3ppm with phosguard over the span of about 50 days, and some type of process in dropping the phosphates seems to be killing my LPS. Tank is a year and...

Long story short my tank crashed, I found my nero pump controller sitting in my sump (photos below). I immediately did an icp test find results below. I’ve been doing several waterchanges and running carbon between the crash to now. As per my icp test is it safe to assume the metal in the tank...

Long story short: A move was supposed to take 2 days with a third day dedicated just to moving the tank. None of that happened. Move ended up lasting almost a week with no time left for the tank. Electric got shut off earlier than expect at the previous house. No way to make saltwater for 3...

Unfortunately, last night i came home from work to find my pico crashing. we rushed to the LFS and picked up anything and everything to test and treat, but it was too late. What happened was a hermit crab died behind my scape, and threw the water quality off. i didn’t notice in time so one...

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/please-help-me-out-any-info-appreciated-very-much.895597/#post-9951997 Worst experience I’ve had in my 13/14 years of reef keeping. This has gone on for almost a full year. I recently set up a Red Sea reefer xl system and I am taking this old system down and...

Hi friends, Long story short, my tank crashed on Friday (3 days ago) - unknown cause, suspect heat swing or water chemistry issue. I noticed something was amiss because a few corals were dead along with all my inverts. I was able to evacuate the survivors into a small sump I had laying around...

As if bristle worms weren't already prolific enough, today I captured this video of a full-blown bristle worm spawning frenzy. Although the video is undoubtedly a disgusting spectacle, the circumstances under which it happened were quite catastrophic. Over the past month, I have been slowly...

As a long time member of reefing forums (though relatively new to R2R), I see a ton of "Emergency!", "Help!", "All of my fish/coral is dying!", etc. threads and it's got me wondering what do you think is the percentage of reefers who have experienced disasters? When I say "disaster," I don't...

I set up a 20 gal saltwater tank for a couple of hermit crabs my kids brought home from the beach last summer, and have been tinkering with and adding to it ever since (live rock, mangrove trees, sps coral, two clownfish and a bubble tip anemone). As of two weeks ago, water parameters were good...

So far it hasn't happened to me. But I hear the horror stories where it comes out of nowhere. Mostly from people with a deep sandbed that don't vacuum it regularly. Thoughts?

I woke up Thursday to a horrible smell. I thought my kids left the oven in it something. When I went in the living room my tank was cloudy and the external temp display was blinking 98.9. I reached into the water and it was very hot. All of my fish were floating (except for a freshwater...

Okay so I have had this pico tank for about 7 months now and I crashed the system three months ago from carbon over dosing and phosphorus guard Elite. I had to move the tank to my new house and in the mean time I scrubbed all of the rock to get the Diana’s off and replaced the crushed coral out...

My tank is a little over a year old and is a mix of LPS and soft corals. I've lost a couple frags here and there but overall have had pretty good success and growth. Over the last few days, most of my corals have started to look pretty bad - zoas not opening all the way or curled skirts, acan...

I am really devastated. I have been working on creating a sustainable ecosystem (indo/central pacific and heavily Hawaiian islands) with my saltwater tank. I want to breed a variety of specific hard to get species so that the aquarium trade doesn’t continue to have such devastating effects...