I feel I need to tell you this sad story, it's two parts, first I had a small spot of cyano, it came & went for about a month, finally I went into LFS and they recommended chemi clean, ya I know there are pro's & cons to using this product, so I went ahead with it, the evening I decided to use it I mixed up recommended dose & looked & observed, strangely things seemed odd, the tank water became very milky, after doing extensive research on this product before & quizing LFS owner he said it would mix up clear, I was very perplexed, by morning my tank was so milky you could hardly see into it, some of my fish had died, inverts dead, corals bleached, dead!, other fish gasping for air, star fish had climbed to top of tank and so on, I immediatly did 25% water change, already had made up, but to no avail, I called a good friend of mine and told of my situation and took my remaining livestock over to his setup to see what I could save, Now I have a 300 gal system, stocked with sps, 20 fish etc. I saved 5 fish, 1 star fish, 1 anemone, 3 sps, 6, zoa's/ pal'y's, lost about 15K!
Now the second part of my story, while I was taking out all of my rock, (I only saved a rubbermaid garbage can of rock for future reseeding) I had to take it out side to bake in the sun and dry, forgot about the paly's that were grown onto some of the rocks, well my best friend got to licking some of them, you know dogs, into everything! by nightfall he was so sick he was crapping blood, we rushed him to the vet, he was so lethargic, we had to carry him in, they did blood work, he had kidney failure, his whole system was shutting down, we lost him, PALY TOXINS ARE THE MOST LETHEL ORGANIC TOXINS KNOWN TO MAN!
A side note,
I was in such a hurry to get everything out of my tank that my hands got so scrathed and cut up from the rocks that they also became infected from the toxins, my fingers swelled up to the size of like hot dogs,I couldn't even bend them & boy did they hurt, the swelling did not go away for like 5 days, be CAREFUL! they are TOXIC WHEN OUT OF THE WATER! AND DIEING,
I love these colorful little things, but they can be dangerous.
This happened last summer, I am glad to say I am up & running again, we have a new puppy, she is great, but our loss was tremendous, we did call boyd enterprises about chemi clean, they too said it should mix clear, I think I got a bad batch.
Now the second part of my story, while I was taking out all of my rock, (I only saved a rubbermaid garbage can of rock for future reseeding) I had to take it out side to bake in the sun and dry, forgot about the paly's that were grown onto some of the rocks, well my best friend got to licking some of them, you know dogs, into everything! by nightfall he was so sick he was crapping blood, we rushed him to the vet, he was so lethargic, we had to carry him in, they did blood work, he had kidney failure, his whole system was shutting down, we lost him, PALY TOXINS ARE THE MOST LETHEL ORGANIC TOXINS KNOWN TO MAN!
A side note,
I was in such a hurry to get everything out of my tank that my hands got so scrathed and cut up from the rocks that they also became infected from the toxins, my fingers swelled up to the size of like hot dogs,I couldn't even bend them & boy did they hurt, the swelling did not go away for like 5 days, be CAREFUL! they are TOXIC WHEN OUT OF THE WATER! AND DIEING,
I love these colorful little things, but they can be dangerous.
This happened last summer, I am glad to say I am up & running again, we have a new puppy, she is great, but our loss was tremendous, we did call boyd enterprises about chemi clean, they too said it should mix clear, I think I got a bad batch.
