Disaster strikes, 3 tanks!

[bencozzy]

Isnt just my luck to come back from work to two tanks complete loses and a third going down hill fast.

ok so my two SW tanks are 40g breeders. one has my hybrid pair(RIP) and thats it a good filter and fully cycled. second has one fish a big maroon clown and some inverts shrimps a crab snails and feather dusters oh and a couple polyps.

well all the shrimps crabs and fish died. water was very cloudy(tested out to zero on everything but trates(20ppm).

so what happened?

oh and third tank is a planted freshwater community, thats been up for awhile well the fish were gasping and the water was cloudy again tested fine. i throw a airstone in and it helped.

i drilled the fam about sprays and they swear they had sprayed nothing and the power didnt go off.

grrr i want to take the baseball bat the them tanks.

 

[GSMguy]

anything i can do let me know, i have tomorrow off.

 

[WDLV]

Temps getting too high? I know it's been warm in OH recently.... I was just there. Mine are on the borderline with the windows in the house open here in MD. We're already getting into the 80s.

 

[bencozzy]

thanks for the offer gsmguy damages are already done. so now its just time to recover. the freshy tank looks good though and no losses. just the salties took the hit.

temp no way i have the tanks in the basement never get over 68 down there. first thing i check since they were gasping.

ill just keep testing and doing w/c and watch what happens with the corals and dusters.

its wasnt that long ago my duster dropped their crowns!! got a little kalk mix in the tank.

jeeze im having a bad run with sw this time.

the big maroon(4") is gone CUC most of got it.

thanks for the support guys.

 

[WDLV]

Are the SW tanks on the same sump? It wouldn't surprise me if something died of unknown causes the previous night and started a chain reaction of ammonia build up. It happens. All it takes is an anemone getting sucked through a closed loop or a fish dieing behind the rockwork....

 

[bencozzy]

nope seperate filters, seperate circuits. thats why im lost as o why it would of hit those tanks.

 

[Moonstream]

could it be something having to do with water? maybe something was on you hands and got into the water? do you use RO for all of them?

 

[Gig 'em]

Dang that sucks. If the water parameters are fine then I would suggest it was a chemical problem that caused the death. Either food you put in the tank was tainted, the water top off had something in it, or your hands had some dangerous trace residue

 

[heap]

you don't happen to live with somebody that could be described as....vindictive, by chance?

 

[bencozzy]

i didnt have my hands in the tank.

dont use ro, probably would of helped?? never really had a need nothing to sensitive in the tanks.

vindictive people no just a drunk. maybe he puked in the tanks?!

same foods ive always used. i might of had something on my hands but im always good about rinsing them before i work in the tanks.

 

[MarinaP]

CA precipitation?

 

[bencozzy]

ca was at 420 and alk was at 10 and 450 and 8 in the other tank.

which is normal for me.

 

[MrRoo]

IF you didn't use RO maybe there was something in the water you added that killed off everything.

 

[bencozzy]

im not sure, had been 2 and a half weeks since last w/c and 2 days since i topped up the tanks.

 

[Smo]

Smell your container that you use for top off water and smell the top off water itself. Sounds like a bacteria infection from bad water.
That is if no aerosols were involved.

 

[bencozzy]

well top off water comes straight out the tap.

top off container is a closed 5g bucket, that sits dry.

ive had the "bad" water happen years ago in a fw tank learned my lesson then about that.

 

[OrionN]

Sometime tap water can have exceptionally high chlorine like when for some reason the water company want to sterilize the system. I am sure something like this mus happened in your case. The tap water was contaminate with something that won't harm human but deadly for the invertebrates (like really high chlorine)

 

[GSMguy]

you used tap water on a reef?

 

[bencozzy]

would it take two days for the chlorine to kill?

anyways yes i totally used tap water on my reef, im regretting it now.

it would of had to of been something in the water.

 

[sk8rreefgeek]

I'm guilty too. nothin but tap. I've never had any problems, but I'm saving up for an RO unit...and an overflow, and a skimmer....