Masedaddy
SPS/Chalice Collector
So I can home the other day to an awful smell in my basement. The finished basement is where my tank resides.
It seems for some reason my son decided to put a AA battery in my sump. I'm assuming due to the reaction of the battery discharging and corroding is the reason my Alk dropped drastically, seemingly overnight. (I'm neither concerned nor desire to understand the physics or chemical mechanics as to how this occurred. It doesn't matter now.)
My tank was extremely cloudy and smelled awful. The skimmer was gummed up with this white gunk.
I lost 2 fish... My Mystery Wrasse and a Pintail Wrasse. I had the Mystery Wrasse for close to 3 years and he was about the same size as Krazy Karl's Mystery Wrasse...
But the real kicker was ALL of my prized SPS died in the tragedy. My colonies are all stark white!! I'm so frustrated and ****ed I can't even describe how I'm feeling... Stuff I have grown from a 1 inch frag to a volleyball sized colony gone in a matter of hours....
I also lost many of my chalices...surprisingly the expensive ones like my Jason Fox Biohazard chalice and Pink Boobies survived.
Most of my LPS survived as well.
I'm just so frustrated I'm thinking about calling it quits... I easily lost 10k or more in corals... I don't know whether to cry or scream. I'll probably do both.
Ugggggghhhhhhh!!!
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Current Tank Info: 57G Oceanic Illuminata Display, 30G Deep Blue Frag Tank, 50 Gallon Custom Sump, Tunze 9415 DOC Skimmer, 36 in and 16 in SeaLife LEDs with T5HO supplement, Denitrator, Tunze ATO, Jebao Doser, 2x Ecotech MP10s
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It seems for some reason my son decided to put a AA battery in my sump. I'm assuming due to the reaction of the battery discharging and corroding is the reason my Alk dropped drastically, seemingly overnight. (I'm neither concerned nor desire to understand the physics or chemical mechanics as to how this occurred. It doesn't matter now.)
My tank was extremely cloudy and smelled awful. The skimmer was gummed up with this white gunk.
I lost 2 fish... My Mystery Wrasse and a Pintail Wrasse. I had the Mystery Wrasse for close to 3 years and he was about the same size as Krazy Karl's Mystery Wrasse...
But the real kicker was ALL of my prized SPS died in the tragedy. My colonies are all stark white!! I'm so frustrated and ****ed I can't even describe how I'm feeling... Stuff I have grown from a 1 inch frag to a volleyball sized colony gone in a matter of hours....
I also lost many of my chalices...surprisingly the expensive ones like my Jason Fox Biohazard chalice and Pink Boobies survived.
Most of my LPS survived as well.
I'm just so frustrated I'm thinking about calling it quits... I easily lost 10k or more in corals... I don't know whether to cry or scream. I'll probably do both.
Ugggggghhhhhhh!!!
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__________________
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
Current Tank Info: 57G Oceanic Illuminata Display, 30G Deep Blue Frag Tank, 50 Gallon Custom Sump, Tunze 9415 DOC Skimmer, 36 in and 16 in SeaLife LEDs with T5HO supplement, Denitrator, Tunze ATO, Jebao Doser, 2x Ecotech MP10s
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