Emergency fish all wiped out

[WaterKeeper]

Mass deaths are not usually related to disease. It could be the blue devil damsel took on all the fish but their would be signs of injury. Most likely it was caused by stray chemicals entering the tank, equipment failure (the carbon filter in an RO fails to remove chlorine) or, as C.J. pointed out, oxygen depredation. Since we don't have an exact cause I would fill that canister with carbon and start running it. I'd also do a massive water change if possible. Fifty percent right now and the same tomorrow if your setup allows you to make that much. I tend to rule out stray voltage as, unless the tank had a massive jolt, it would not explain wholesale deaths in the tank. Hope you don't start losing corals.

 

[Sk8r]

What a sump would do for you:
It provides a 'waterfall,' which oxygenates in a thorough froth...it provides a place for a bigger skimmer. It provides a place for a cheatomorpha refugium, which REALLY oxygenates, and it also provides another surface/air area for gas exchange, etc. Plus you get to do all your dosing down there; you can run an autotopoff into the sump more gently, and you can add kalk to your autotopoff and thus automate your calcium dosing for your corals.

 

[faze07hd]

does your wife hate how much attention you give to the tank???

suspect #1

 

[wisco-reef]

Every once in awhile she bust's my ball's but about a month and a half ago I got her an engagement ring ( a nice one ) so now all I have to do is tell her how much more important she is to me than a silly tank. She's actually just about to graduate in May with a double major in biology and chemistry so she find's it pretty interesting. Enough about her though, I know there is now way she would sabotage my tank. She know's how much I love the hobby and how much time and money, lots of money, I've spent on it. So, as for oxygenation, I have 2, I forgot the names, 660 power heads. Both of them are able to be used as oxygentors by attatching a little peice of aquairum tubing to a hole above the tube where the water comes out. It has to be about the water line, it takes in oxygen and oxygenates the water. So I don't think it was that. My calcium levels were alittle high though, alittle over 500, so I think that might have somthing to do with it. I am thinking about using an old tank I have, 30gl,
to make a sump. A good friend of mine said I don't even need to divide the tank into third's just use the whole tank as one big chamber I'd guess youy call it. Any thought's on that would be appreciated. Thank's for all your help.
I get out of work at 4:00pm CST and will try to post my new water parameters.

 

[kraze3]

You could use it wide open. Your biggest probelm will be keeping the micro bubbles out of the display. The reason we divde them is to keep bubbles and any macro algae away from return pump. There isnt really a right or wrong way just what people find easier for them.

 

[svynx]

Micro bubbles, and water level if you are running an in sump skimmer. Fluctuation in the water level can change how wet/dry the skimmer is skimming. The simplest way is just add one baffold to make a skimmer section. Drain tank into that. Then the water level would stay constant.

 

[UhOhWhatsleakin]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14549459#post14549459 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by faze07hd
does your wife hate how much attention you give to the tank???

suspect #1

ha ha ha ha ha.... She used to. Now she feels so guilty she is going to urge you to buy new fish.

LOL