Tank Crash----Complete devastation

[turbo21]

turbo, i've used flatworm exit. i've had a ton of planaria and i used the dosage for about 70 gallons. i did about 15 gallon water change with a ton of carbon and gfo running like mad. 30 minutes later, i sucked out as much of the dead planaria that was floating in the column after they wiggled, died, and started floating.

didn't have a problem.

how big of a water change did you do?

i have used it on my sytem probably 5 times over the last 3 years and no issues. there were barely any planaria in the tank it was one of those i have it in the drawer and lets take care of it before it gets bad type of things.

i dosed the tank

waited for about 10 minutes and only sae a handfull die.
added a ton of carbon
then did a 100 gallon change

the next day everything looked great and it took almost a week for the crash to happen

sexy mike has had 3 of his local customers experience the same exact thing. corals even looked the same way almost looks like an alk burn but over the entire coral including lps

just nuts i walk downstairs to look at the tank and cant believe there is no color in it!!

i tested as soon as everything went brown and went and bought new kits to double check

salintiy 1.025 calibrated refractometer
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
p04 .04 hanna checker
alk 9.8 this is my normal reading
calcium 400

i also added a polyfilter thinking metal contamination and it stayed white/turning dirty from organics

fwe is the only change to the sytem

 

[Eienna]

Ohh, that's awful!!!!!!! T.T I don't even like to think about something like that happening to me down the line...I've killed, alternately, all my corals and all my fish, and was sick over it, but I didn't have invested nearly what you have there. I'm so sorry!!!

Don't throw them all away yet...you never know what might come back...I've heard of colonies regrowing from a single surviving polyp after months of appearing dead.

 

[turbo21]

Thanks for the kind words everyone
I thought I prepared for every type of disaster. Generators extra pumps extra tanks. Everything but nothing can be done in this situation. It sucks so bad!!!

Not much info on the box besides an expiration date. On the bottle it looks like a batch number or something

While I was down stairs grabbing the fwe boxes I snapped another pic of the tank. Not many more sps colonies to pull out.

 

[Rob&Gab]

dang bro sorry to hear man. This sucks.give it a couple of days to run its course. Please keep us posted.

 

[Squishie89]

I am so incredibly sorry. I am glad your fish are okay though, that is something.

 

[ritter6788]

Sorry to hear man. Hang in there.

 

[turbo21]

thanks everyone means alot for the kind words

 

[neuro]

And here I was crying about my own crash 3 weeks ago. Best wishes bob.

 

[turbo21]

And here I was crying about my own crash 3 weeks ago. Best wishes bob.

thanks bud and sorry to hear about your crash i defintely feel your pain. what caused your crash?

 

[jackson6745]

Dang bro I'm really sorry. I hope you get this behind you quickly and get things rolling again.

 

[KeithB]

Wow man. I feel for you. That's rough.

 

[neuro]

thanks bud and sorry to hear about your crash i defintely feel your pain. what caused your crash?

i was on vacation, had a friend who was an experienced reefer do waterchanges. but i didn't want to bother him to check on my tank when i lost communication with my controller until it was too late.

turns out, my UPS tripped my circuit breaker. Tank lost power for 2-3 days.

nothing compared to your losses though. but you know, your tank will be back better than it was before!!

 

[bkhunt]

WOW!! When I was talking to you and you said it was bad that is not what I was expecting. You are welcome to make frags out of my tank even tough I don't have anywhere near the stuff you did.

 

[srpsycho11]

Very sorry for your loss! Scary thing to see being a new reefer.

 

[Beradd]

wow man, im so sorry to see this. unfathomable.

 

[cdness]

It can happen to the best of us at any time... Sorry for your loss. You will pull out of this, but it will take time.

This kinda sounds like that Kent Carbon issue from awhile back. Bad batch causes crashes...

 

[jt17]

So sorry for your loss. It's one of all of our worst fears. I was very impressed to see you participate in the Sexy Live sale in the wake of this loss. You still have corals in your bones and the passion for the hobby.

 

[JMSKI333]

Bob,

This is terrible! What a shame! I am sorry.

I have 8 frags of your corals. When you are ready, I can slice them up and get them back to you.

Is there anything you are thinking you could have done diferently or that you are going to do differently to prevent this?

 

[Salty Dog]

I went thru a few crashes im my day and it only made me rebuild even better. This is a great enjoyable hobby and I don't see getting out, you will always have it it your mind. Before putting any coral into your tank always take the measures to prevent pests,thus eliminating chemical solutions

 

[Dmmz]

I try to find ppl in my area to swap with so all of us have our coral in each other's tanks so if one goes down we can restock it but that is not always possible sorry to see this happen