The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[johanasu]

The Good: Our first child was born on Monday, 4/14/14. Her name is Seraphina and she is awesome.

The Good II: I got rid of all of my Xenia

The Bad: While we were at the hospital for three days my Cat jumped on top of the shelf over my 110g. The shelf ripped its anchors out of the wall and my two 120w full spectrum LEDs went swimming.

The Ugly: Lost all of my snails, my cucumber, my purple tip nana, birdsnest (green and ponape), blue polyp undata, blue german and orange digitata, and both of my 20+ head hammer corals (these were the saddest).

My two rBTA seem to be alive, in a separate tank atm, but in bad shape. So far it seems all of fish are alive. I'm not sure if the lights heated the water or leeched copper/metals out of the fixture. I'm combatting the death with Prime and going to run carbon and polyfilter to try to remove any chemicals/metals.

Pretty terrible thing to come home to, fortunately my brother Alex (Mael) stopped by before I came home so it wasn't a complete shock what had happened.

 

[johnike]

Congrats to you and your family.
See you in 18 years.

 

[Holyassasin]

Is that you John?

 

[Frick]

Wow that's pretty horrible about your reef. Congrats on fragging a new family members. If the cuc died they tend to leach out some pretty toxic chemicals in the water creating something called a cuc-nuke. I would do a water change and lots of fresh carbon will help.

 

[vincent92]

Are the LEDs completely sealed or did it burn out while in the tank. Probably did and released metals and the electrical smoke into the water. Just get a dog instead lol

 

[johnike]

Is that you John?

Why yes, yes it is.
:wavehand:

 

[johanasu]

The Tiger Tail Cuc did die, but they are reportedly the least toxic of the cucumbers and all of my fish seem fine.

I am going to run fresh carbon today anyway. The LEDs were not sealed on the sides where the intake and exits for airflow are, so I'm sure there was some metal exposure in the water as well.

 

[SaltyTony]

Congrats on the new baby and sorry to hear about your tank. Tank inhabitants can be replaced. Mom and baby are more important at the moment. I nearly lost my wife during child birth 1 and 1/2 years ago which put things in perspective for me.

 

[Mael]

yah, was quite a shock when I went over there to feed the fish and the cat and I saw the lights in the tank, ran over rip the last screw out of the wall with the shelf and lights and drained the lights in the sink, all fish were alive then, he did have 1 nassarius and 2-3 hermits survive through last night but who knows. I almost threw up when I saw the lights in the tank and the condition of the coral.

We'll get it restocked sooner than later, just glad the fish are all alright.