Fan fell in my tank- Help please

chefmur · Sep 22, 2012

So I came home from work a few days ago and my clip on fan had come loose and fallen in my tank including the motor housing. My fish and LPS are fine but SPS look awful, colors look washed out, polyp extension not good. I imediatly did a water change of about 30%. Its been 3 days now and corals still look bad, I have not lost any yet but they are not improving, they do not look any worse but not any better. My normal parameters are all good so not sure if it was the metal or electricity in the water that caused it. My red planet went from dark crimson red to light pink and my green slimer looks like crap and it was the brightest sps in my tank. Do I need to do a massive water change, add carbon? Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. This is a mature 5 year old tank that went from looking amazing to horrible overnight.
Thanks Mike

SeahorseKeeper · Sep 22, 2012

I would carbon and do a another water change.

Wesley42079 · Sep 22, 2012

Sorry what happened to your tank.

Hopefully everything recovers. It may just need some time for yoyr green slimer and red planet to color back up.

islander84 · Sep 22, 2012

Do not do a massive water change! Best thing you can do is a small water change, run carbon and then do exactly what you were doing before..... the worst thing you can do is make big changes, all that will do is stress things out more and that would probably end up bad....

Just sit back and let things calm down, if things start to rtn snip a healthy branch reglue it and keep your carbon going( rinsed well) (change once a week or every other week if you see alot of slime coming from corals) and only do small water changes, maybe 5 to 10 percent once a week or every other week. The carbon will absorb all of the toxins or most of them anyways.

chefmur · Sep 22, 2012

Thanks Islander great advice I will do, the guy I that I get my frags from ( a long time reefer) said the same, the worst thing at this point is more stress on them. There is no tissue loss or slime and its been 4 days so hope they are going to recover.