Chameleon
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So the other day I get a call from my wife while I am at work saying my skimmer is overflowing. Thinking the outflow must have been partially blocked or something I asked her to just unplug it until I get home. Well I get home a few hours later to find that the entire 5 gallon auto top off reservoir that I had just filled the day previously with kalkwasser saturated RODI had emptied into my sump. Apparently both the primary and backup float valves were stuck with salt creep. In my 60 gallon tank that onslaught of calcium and alkalinity must have reeked havoc on water chemistry although most of it precipitated. Needless to say the salinity was was off and alkalinity was about a point and a half higher than normal and two acros had rtn'd almost completely. I decided to take things slow and just let the parameter come back to normal by evap instead of further stressing things by water changes to get things to normal. Well over the course of this past week I have noticed some STN on some of my larger colonies and I am really not looking forward to going in tonight with the bone cutters to hack away at their nice shapes. Not the worse tank crash out there, but not fun either. Wish me luck for my other corals and their health. I actually surprisingly had a fish disappear in the event too and the skimmer died a few weeks previously (cureently on superglue life support with an insufficient pump) so its been a hard couple weeks.
