Please help tank crasherd last night, wife is feeling really ill???

[easterly81]

This could be a coincidence but is weird. My wife woke up with shortness of breath last night and this morn to whole house smelled like dead sea creatures. My 5 year tank mysteriously crashed last night. She seems to be getting worse. She seems to have the symptoms of palytoxins poisoning but has never touch any corals or my tank. I don't believe its possible to aspirate the toxins as far as i have read on the internet. Could the fumes from a crashed tank create allergy type symptoms. Very weird starting to get concerned.

 

[zma21]

Anytime someone has prolonged shortness of breath, get them to a physician. The problem could escalate quickly.

Very strange that both happened, it very well suggests a coalition between the two.

 

[easterly81]

getting read to im not feeling great eight i thinking something in the air cause us and tank to get sick

 

[username in use]

carbon monoxide?

 

[bleedfire]

carbon monoxide?

I was reading a few years back about a baby who went i'll becouse they left the car on for couple hours in the garage and it travel inside the house. but the baby got it first because she was small and i guess the air so dense that its stays in the bottom

something like that i cant remember

 

[easterly81]

we have a CO detector i do think it that just got hear out of the house she feeling a little better trying to fig out if we should go to the emergence room....so weird

 

[easterly81]

tanks ph is 8.06 would co drop ph or only co2

 

[jeff@zina.com]

Dude! You're having breathing troubles but for 45 minutes have been posting on Reef Central! Nobody here will provide medical attention. Go to a doctor, clinic, emergency room or call 911. Worry about whether it's a reef tank issue after you're better.

Jeff

 

[easterly81]

we have been out of the house and she is feeling better now tying to fig out if we can go back in been ventilating ever since.

 

[username in use]

If you take her out of the house and she feels better there is prob something in the air. My suggestion is open all the windows and doors in the house, get some fans moving, and take your wife to the emergency room for some blood tests before you bring her back into the house. Also, call someone that can check the air quality in your house. The fire dept/police should know who you can call in your area to get it checked out.

EDIT: This should all be handled IMMEDIATELY, stop posting and go get something done, NOW!!!!

 

[easterly81]

ok thanks sry

 

[buffalo123]

Go to the doctor, you can call you're fire dept they will come and check the air.
About two months ago my carbon monoxide detector kept going off, after it happened a few times i call the fire dept they told me to get out the house and they will send a truck out.
They came check the air and the reading was normal it turnrd out to be a built in indicator to say when the unit needs to be replaced.
However when the fire dept came in one fireman said " the fish are still alive" so i take it that was a good sign.

 

[wilsonreefs]

Dude! You're having breathing troubles but for 45 minutes have been posting on Reef Central! Nobody here will provide medical attention. Go to a doctor, clinic, emergency room or call 911. Worry about whether it's a reef tank issue after you're better.

Jeff

X2! Your kidding right? still on the forum! get your wife some professional help, take her to the Dr. Worry about your tank later.

Carl

 

[Jakef150]

Yes please listen to them...CALL fireman...they have some kind of air test machine that can tell whats in the air...

get out...call fireman...who cares about tank...worry about your family...

Keep us post

Jake

 

[mike_cmu04]

If you have a calcium reactor did the co2 leak out? your carbon monoxide will not pick that up?

 

[NexDog]

I think your wife killed your tank and now she's sick from the guilty conscience.

 

[tchndie]

If you suggest Carbon monoxide poisoning you should get out of the house. do not open any windows to air out the house. If you air out the house the fire dept will not be able to get a proper reading when they test. They will also have a hard time to locate where the problem is coming from if it is aired out.

 

[Jakef150]

I hope things alrite...

 

[pico-reefer]

any updates? is everything ok?

 

[easterly81]

Had gas company come out and check co2 and gas leaks everything is ok. We all got the flu it was just a weird coincidence that the tank crashed. Oh my wife has been having asma attack only once ever few years (thats weird too).

I moved my tank 6 months ago to our new house been having problem since ( to many corals in what is now a new tank). So i had a problem with blue green cayano which was starting to get really bad and killing some corals so i use bluelife (as a last resort) red slime remover. followed direction i did 4 water changes since then (2 normal 2 through wet skimming) Re-dosed bacteria and everything seemed to be fine. Even my sps was coloring up real good. Them it all crashed. I looked at it before i went to bed that night everything was doing great. weird... The only other thing i could think of was i had an acro that got really big and i frag it down. I never fraged this piece before and it slimed a lot.
4+ years and two tank i have never had a major disaster till now. Its really sad to lose thing you have be taking care of for 4 years.

Everyone is doing great now. It was just all a strange coincidence. damn you Murphy...is all weird when everyone in your house wakes up sick and your animals are dead..kinda freaks you out.