Monday morning I left for Chicago to receive an award from the company that I work for. It's a pretty large global company, so this was a big deal. Unfortunately I could not take my wife since we have a two month old. Anyways, everything in my tank is doing great when I leave. On Wednesday, just before the award dinner I call my wife and ask her how our son and everything else is going. She says that everythign is going fine, the fish are doing fine, but for some reason there's no filtered water coming out of the tap. She said it's been like that for a couple days! I knew what had happened immediately.
The float switch stuck.......
I told her to go down in the basement and look at the sump. She said, "the water level looks a little high". I asked how high and she replied, "It's at the top". My sump is a 55 gallon tank that's usually about half full. There was nothing that I could do. I had never told her how to care for the tank outside of feeding the fish.
Thursday afternoon she picks me up at the airport. She says that the water is a little cloudy. As soon as we got home I ran over to the tank and check the damage. No corals are open and I can barely see the back of the tank. I checked the specific gravity of the water and it's at 1.012!!! I start an immediate water change with the 35 gallons of water that I have in a trashcan in the basement.
Well, as of now, the water isn't as cloudy. But there is a death toll:
All snails and crabs
5" green slimer
6" diameter red monti cap
8" green montipora altasepta (it was branching like crazy)
3" unknown acro (also lots of new branches)
small pocillapora, from kmagyar
22 headed frogspawn
3 headed green frogspawn
a rock of 15 pink ricordia
All of the surviving corals are bordeline right now, but i'm hoping that my large red milli survives.
we'll see

The float switch stuck.......
I told her to go down in the basement and look at the sump. She said, "the water level looks a little high". I asked how high and she replied, "It's at the top". My sump is a 55 gallon tank that's usually about half full. There was nothing that I could do. I had never told her how to care for the tank outside of feeding the fish.
Thursday afternoon she picks me up at the airport. She says that the water is a little cloudy. As soon as we got home I ran over to the tank and check the damage. No corals are open and I can barely see the back of the tank. I checked the specific gravity of the water and it's at 1.012!!! I start an immediate water change with the 35 gallons of water that I have in a trashcan in the basement.
Well, as of now, the water isn't as cloudy. But there is a death toll:
All snails and crabs
5" green slimer
6" diameter red monti cap
8" green montipora altasepta (it was branching like crazy)
3" unknown acro (also lots of new branches)
small pocillapora, from kmagyar
22 headed frogspawn
3 headed green frogspawn
a rock of 15 pink ricordia
All of the surviving corals are bordeline right now, but i'm hoping that my large red milli survives.
we'll see
