Tank Blizzard......OH NOOOO's

[Horace]

Well tonight was the worst disaster I have ever had with my tank. I mixed up the DIY 2 Part and had it running on my tank today (this is enough for about 4-6 months worth of dosing). Well the dosing pump is screwed up and keeps shutting down. So I disconnected the hoses and took it apart to see if I could figure out the problem and then left it and went to dinner. Well when I came home, both full gallon bottles of 2 part were completly empty and had siphoned into my 75g tank. Needless to say it was pure white. It looked like somone had done a 100% water change with milk while I was gone. Calcium had precipitated on everything. I am not sure if I did the right thing or not but I did a 95% water change...the whole tank was drained and new water was put in. Everything looks amazingly well atm. My SPS has polyp extension on most peices and all my fish and critters seemed to survive, even my shrimp (atleast they were alive last I checked). My Alk is still much higher than it should be. It is now spiked to around 13.5 up from 7.5 where I normally keep it. Now it is just a waiting game to see if my SPS RTN because of the massive Alk shift. Wish me luck....

 

[Horace]

Well as of this morning, there are no losses that I can verify and the water is crystal clear again. All but one fish has been verified alive, the only one left is my six-line wrasse but he hides alot anyway so that is no surprise. I still didnt see any of my shrimp, but that is normal anyway. I did see both of them alive while I was changing the water and shortly after, but a water change of that magnitude could have been hard on them too. Anyway suprisingly all my corals still look ok as well for the time being. I have aboug 20 SPS in there so we will see what happens. My PH is right at about 8.4 - 8.5 which is where my tank always used to run because of dosing lime water. The thing that concerns me most is the high Alk. This morning all but a few had good polyp extension, so I would say that is a good sign. I guess I will just have to wait and see what happens over the next couple days. I will be sure to let you all know what happens.

 

[brad23]

Let me know if you need any help with anything.

 

[drew22to375]

Oh no sorry to here that horace. Reminds me of the time mine feather calapra went asexual. looked like someone dumped milk into the tank. Hope everything pulls thru.

Drew..

 

[Horace]

Well as of this morning, it appears everything is doing quite well surprisingly. The only casulty seems to be my new six-line wrasse. I havent seen him in two days so I dont know happend to him. Its possibly he could have jumped out of the back of the tank as well at some point and me not know it. I dont see him as often as the other fish so I wouldnt have noticed him missing most likley. Anyway for now things seem to be returning to normal.

 

[hounddog01]

I have another 40 gallons of RO ready for the next time!

 

[Horace]

There wont be a next time!

Just for an update. It does appear I have lost my six line which sux but I guess it could have been alot worse. I am also seeing some tissue recession on my pink birds nest at some of the tips. I dont think its all out RTN yet so I think it may recover. We will just have to wait and see on that one. Right now its really jsut a frag so it wouldnt be a HUGE loss if it were to die, but it has been doing so well up until now, its kind of a bummer to see it going backwards now .