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Banjer1982

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I just came home and everything I have is dead. The water stinks really bad and is tea colored. The skimmer has orange build up in it. All I had in my tank was the snails, 3 peppermint shrimp, a clownfish and a goby. Also had a euphylia. Does anyone have any explanation as to what could've caused this. I just did a water change a week ago
 
Wipe-out of tank

Wipe-out of tank

Hi,

Sorry about your loss. I had something happen to me a few months ago, but my problem was I had tried to remove the live sand to add new sand and in doing so I brought to the surface all the elements found underneath thus posioning the water and loss everything yet only a black percula which I have had for 2.5 years which is still with me.

One of the things I have heard will cause this is if during the day the lights went out for a determine amount of time, this I have heard can cause a total wipe-out and as you say a smelly fishy smell.

Eddie
 
Was there something big in the live-rock that perhaps you didn't know about? What was the water volume?
 
Is it possible that someone put something in the tank? Unless you have been gone for a couple days, it strikes me as odd that it happened that quickly.
 
Sorry to hear this. Is there any chance copper somehow got into your tank? It's deadly to marine animals, especially invertibrates.
 
We had a powerhead seal go bad in a tank at my work that leaked into the tank turned dark and almost everything died.
 
First off, sorry for your loss.

You haven't given us enough information. The more, the better. How is the tank set up? How long had it been set up? Have you added or taken anything from the system? What where the latest system parameters you had before the crash? We need details to determine what happened.

Scott
 
Sorry for your loss. I had everything die in my tank about a month ago. I took off the glass shield on my metal halide reflector, not knowing it was there for uv protection. 6k worth of coral dead.
 
My tank is a 34 gal salona. I've had it set up close to a year. I don't exactly remember what my perameters was but they were ok or I wouldve went ahead and corrected the problem. Just did a water change a week or two again and I use ro water. My perameters now are out of whack. Ph 8.0, ammonia .5, nitrate 40, nitrite 1.0. They were not like this. All my tankmates were very healthy not showing any signs of something wrong. The water is tea colored and in my skimmer the foam is orange and also my filter is orange. Only person who is around my tank is my gf and she helps stock the tank so I don't suspect any foul play.
 
Really the only thing I can think of is some kind of extreme change in temp. Were you using a heater/chiller with the tank? I have had my entire tank in rubbermaid containers without circulation or light for a couple days and everything lived just fine. Everything being killed off that quickly sounds like some kind of poisoning like was already mentioned, or some kind of malfunctioning equipment that cause either extreme heat/cold which would for sure kill everything off.
 
Banjer I have the same tank. Did you modify the system? I know a lot of people do. I have to agree with madotc with the possibility of something toxic ending up in the tank. With such a small volume of water it wouldn't take much. What is the tank next to? Are you using the glass lid? Are you using the MH pendant? If you are then a chiller is pretty much necessity. Hmmm.....the answer is there man we just need to dig it out.
 
The color seems like something maybe got dumped in?? The params are off because stuff died, not the other way around, I suspect. Orange could just be the color of dead stuff residue, but maybe something else. Are all the bodies accounted for? Anything that could have fallen in? Are you dosing anything? Missing any food containers? Any changes over the last couple of days?
Just trying to trigger ideas.
 
Did your gf stick her hands in the tank while you were gone? Did she have lotion on her hands? Or maybe she had just done her nails. Just throwing out more possibilities.
 
No I havnt cheated and no she don't mess with the tank. I've heard that if a snail dies it can mess your water up quick. Could that have happened and I just hantavirus noticed it and I'm thinking the color could be from all the amphipods, the orange shell they leave behind or whatever it is I had those in the tank from them
 
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