Tank Meltdown :(

I appreciate everyones help and responses...i apologize if i came off at all as cold..thats not my intentions. i am just really taken back and beat down from this entire mishap
 
Hmm...are there any chemicals (not necessarily ones you used) that could have gotten into the system? My step-sister opened a window one breezy summer day, but apparently, the neighbor had been spraying his lawn. I guess enough of the spray was in the breeze that it wiped out my brother-in-law's aquarium.
 
I would pay attention to how it all started. With water change. I suspect some heavy metal contamination (given it's not alk or pH swings). Try to reintroduce some cheap LPS/SPS, and if they die, sell everything and start over.
 
If your inverts are not affected then that would rule out copper or heavy metal contamination.
When you say you woke up and saw granules filling up the tank which looked milky... I doubt that the remains of a lobbo would affect a tank to this extent. Coulod it have been a coral Spawn that went bad as the filtration system couldn't handle it and no water change or carbon was rapidly done? Still I havne't heard of it wiping of a tank.
 
Is it possible that your tank went offline for a few hours without circulation? How about a heater spike.

The salt thing also sticks in my mind. That would be the biggest thing you add/change in your tank on a regular basis.
 
maroun.c said:
If your inverts are not affected then that would rule out copper or heavy metal contamination.
When you say you woke up and saw granules filling up the tank which looked milky... I doubt that the remains of a lobbo would affect a tank to this extent. Coulod it have been a coral Spawn that went bad as the filtration system couldn't handle it and no water change or carbon was rapidly done? Still I havne't heard of it wiping of a tank.
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This was my first thought...that it was coral spawning...however i was watching the lobo peal away as everything was floating around...when i took the lobo out...it slowly dissipated (*spelling) to nothing...so i truly feel it was the lobo breaking away from itself
 
Stolireef said:
Is it possible that your tank went offline for a few hours without circulation? How about a heater spike.

The salt thing also sticks in my mind. That would be the biggest thing you add/change in your tank on a regular basis.
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The tank did shut down for 15 minutes because of a quick storm..but that was is it...there wasn't any heater spike as my tank always stays consistent and i change my heaters once a year to avoid faulty heater issues

i mean it could be the salt mix...but with the frequency i test my water i would think i would of noticed something...however im not ruling anything out.

i really don't think that there is clear answer to this and since its a week ago there are a lot of variables still out there
 
maroun.c said:
If your inverts are not affected then that would rule out copper or heavy metal contamination.
When you say you woke up and saw granules filling up the tank which looked milky... I doubt that the remains of a lobbo would affect a tank to this extent. Coulod it have been a coral Spawn that went bad as the filtration system couldn't handle it and no water change or carbon was rapidly done? Still I havne't heard of it wiping of a tank.
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All Inverts and Fish are Okay
 
Have you added any new coral lately? I have seen a new coral added to a system that crashes the whole tank by slimming on to other colonies.
 
david pinder said:
Do remember a while back someones tank got wiped out and it turned out there girlfriend had windexed it because she though it needed cleaning. Myself I think your water changes are over the top. Such large changes are inviting disaster and not needed. Smaller changes% wise would not be as stressful, also if you get a bad batch of salt again less stress
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I was thinking perhaps somoeone used a household cleaner and the vapors or liquid got into the tank or something airborne.
 
I still think you probably had a power-outage that occurred while you were asleep, and the power had already been restored by the time you woke back up. It makes me awfully suspicious since you had already suffered a 15min power-outage that evening due to bad weather.
 
Potsy said:
Perhaps a contaminant in the water-change bucket? Do any housecleaning recently involving some kind of spray? Any pesticides going on in the neighborhood? Unwashed hands in the tank after working on the car?

It's also possible that long-term phosphate buildup prevented stony corals from laying down carbonate skeletons, pushing them over the brink. Once the sps starting rtn'ing, allowing possible bacterial/protozoan infection to set in, a cycle of rapid death and low oxygen levels ensued.

As far as I know, smelly milky water = low oxygen + high bacterial presence.
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I was thinking along this line. I remember a post of a guy who's wife had used insectiscide and wiped her hands on one of his fish towels when she came in the house. He was playing around in his tank wiping his hands with the same towel....everything was dead or dying within hours.

I would suspect some type of contamination.
 
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