cnaegler
New member
Hello everyone,
So, i come home from work last night to a really weird smell in my house. Wasn't really pungent, smelled a little like bleach, so i assumed my girlfriend had cleaned the house or whatever. Well, i walked straight to my tank, my usual scenario, to notice all the polyps on everything retracted. My first thought was that my girlfriend's little boy had dumped bleach in my tank. He tends to do things like that unknowingly. Anyways...as i was checking everything, the power to the tank trips off... I was like WTH? I go to the breaker box and trip the breaker back on and it's making a funny sound. Kinda like it was preparing to trip again. I walk back to inspect the tank and there is smoke boiling out of the water. On further inspection, i find it's my biopellet reactor pump smoking and stinking like crazy underwater in my sump. I unplug it and replace it with another pump i have in case of such a scenario. The pump i pulled out is incredibly hot and stinks horribly. I throw it away and prepare 30 gallons of fresh saltwater to do a water change the next day. When i get home this evening, all my SPS have almost NO color! I go ahead and do the water change.
So....my question is....could the pump have leaked something toxic into the tank? It seems only the acros are showing the worst signs. Is this something i should REALLY be concerned about? Should i just continue to do frequent water changes and hope for the best? Has anyone experienced the same thing?
So, i come home from work last night to a really weird smell in my house. Wasn't really pungent, smelled a little like bleach, so i assumed my girlfriend had cleaned the house or whatever. Well, i walked straight to my tank, my usual scenario, to notice all the polyps on everything retracted. My first thought was that my girlfriend's little boy had dumped bleach in my tank. He tends to do things like that unknowingly. Anyways...as i was checking everything, the power to the tank trips off... I was like WTH? I go to the breaker box and trip the breaker back on and it's making a funny sound. Kinda like it was preparing to trip again. I walk back to inspect the tank and there is smoke boiling out of the water. On further inspection, i find it's my biopellet reactor pump smoking and stinking like crazy underwater in my sump. I unplug it and replace it with another pump i have in case of such a scenario. The pump i pulled out is incredibly hot and stinks horribly. I throw it away and prepare 30 gallons of fresh saltwater to do a water change the next day. When i get home this evening, all my SPS have almost NO color! I go ahead and do the water change.
So....my question is....could the pump have leaked something toxic into the tank? It seems only the acros are showing the worst signs. Is this something i should REALLY be concerned about? Should i just continue to do frequent water changes and hope for the best? Has anyone experienced the same thing?
