RIP 54g corner Welcome 60g cube

Omie
Just finished reading your thread and wanted to Thank-You for having names to the pictures you are posting.
It comes in very handy and will help me with my tank life choices.
Congrats on your child, great pictures, sorry about the heater, nice camera, sorry about your favorite fish. That should almost cover it.

I want to thank you for reading my thread and being part of my journey. In this hobby, we need to expect that good and bad things will happen. Hopefully more good than bad, and learn to avoid the bad ones. Sometimes I find out things the hard way, but others I learned reading threads on here and listening to advice from our fellows reefers.

I'm glad that I helped you with names. I love when people do the same thing, bc it is easier to look for them in a LFS. I'll keep posting more. I'm on vacation, but I left some corals acclimating and as soon I get home I'll post more.
 
I am not sure if this answers your question but have electricity in your saltwater does change the chemistry: basically most ion can be electrolyzed and water will be converted into H2 and O2. If you look at the wires that were exposed in your saltwater you should be able to see some thick residuals covering the metal wire.

Sorry for your loss. I switched to all metal heaters a while ago and will never go back to glass. Metal heaters are not perfect but they have less chance to explode ad electrocute the fish.

I'm back, but with lots of bad news!

The past month has been hell for my tank and myself! The colors were doing good and then they started turning brown. The PE decreased and the growth became slower. All my parameters were stable and consistent.

My yellow tang started to have something like seizures. I thought it died, but after 15mins he started to swim again. Few days later my cleaner shrimp disappeared. I had it for a long time and didn't have any problems at all. Then my favorite fish, the starry blenny, died. He was so healthy and happy! When I found him he was swollen and one of his eyes had popped out. Around the same week my fire shrimp disappeared too. I was so upset and frustrated bc I wasn't doing drastic changes to the tank and I normally don't put stress on my fish.

One day, trying to find out the problem of my crash, I found that the ph dropped to 7.4 from 7.9 (my normal ph). I opened the windows and did all I could for the tank to get back the O2 needed. It went up to 8!!! Weird!!! I closed the windows and in less than a hour the ph dropped drastically to 7.6.

The next day, I went to my LFS and bought the Zeovit balance, a ph buffer. I started dosing my tank and at the same time figuring out the problem. I blame not having enough O2 bc it is cold and the a/c was turned off and the house is lacking air movement. Every time I was off work I opened the windows to bring the ph up as much as I could. I was dosing the tank A LOT anyways to keep the ph in control. It was strange because years before I never had this situation, but I couldn't found the problem behind all this.

One day I was off from work, and I was having my breakfast. While I was eating I was looking at the tank and saw my clownfish not swimming normally. I grabbed a stick that I made and move him around and he started to swim normally again. Not even 1 min and he did the same thing. I move him again and everything went back to "normal" until the female started to do the same thing!!! Ooohhh sh&$!! My yellow tang started to swim really fast with seizures. My blue tang was doing the same thing and my clowns swimming slow.

Not knowing what to do I started to move my fish side to side and then I smell something burning. My first thought was the thermostat. I tried to turn it off from my surge protector and it wasn't responding. I unplugged it and this is what I found...

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My thermostat exploded and it was electrocuting my fish. After I removed the broken glass and the residual of the thermostat from the tank the clowns started to swim better, but my 2 tangs were laying on the sand breathing heavily. I did a water change right away and spent over two hrs trying to make my tangs swim again.

I went to the store and bought an expensive thermostat that doesn't break and went back to the house and did another water change. 7hrs after the incident, the tangs were swimming. All corals were fine, but some of them started to turn white bc of stress with the w/c. The next day my yellow tang died. He looked almost the same way as my starry Blenny. It's frustrating, but it could be worse.

Right now I'm on vacation, hoping that the tank is stable. My mother-in-law is taking care of it and so far so good! My ph stays over 8 and the fish are happy.

***I need some answers!!!***
A broken/cracked thermostat that is transporting electricity in to the tank can decrease the ph of the water??? After I removed it, my ph has been over 8 and I'm not dosing anything at all, (as far as balance).
 
How's the tank doing lately?

Sorry for the late response. Im working a lot and didn't have time to take pics of my tank. So far my tank is doing great. No more mayor issues and all growing and coloring as expected. This are some pics of them.

Bonsai
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Top shot
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Acan garden
I have blue w/ red, pink, orange, red, green, and rainbow
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Also, my Zoa garden in the back.
Blue hornets, sunny D, Rastas, nuclear, cars, utter chaos, Oompa Loompa...
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Red Dragon
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Candlelight
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Acroberry
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Yellow and pink acro (forget name)
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Top Shot
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Yellow Digitata
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Birdsnest
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Orange Delight Zoa
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My acan garden
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Strawberry Shortcake
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I have the same tank i think. I just took out all my sand and replaced it and took any sand i had out of the refug. All i have down there is chaeto and live rock now. I redid my rock a bit too. This is basically how it looks now https://flic.kr/p/K5AQBD
Been having a crazy nitrate problem but i think i finally figured it out.
 
I have the same tank i think. I just took out all my sand and replaced it and took any sand i had out of the refug. All i have down there is chaeto and live rock now. I redid my rock a bit too. This is basically how it looks now https://flic.kr/p/K5AQBD
Been having a crazy nitrate problem but i think i finally figured it out.

Good that you figure out your nitrates. I love my cube tank, and I'm thinking on buying the 31g cube for anemones... Hopefully soon :bounce2::bounce3:
 
Great thread build. I like the cube! Keep us posted!
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