hthwilson
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Ok, today was a horrible day!!!! My girlfriend thought that she was adding RO water, instead she added freshly made salt water, with salt that wasn't dissolved. She dumped it right in the top of my tank. So I lost almost all of my fish and corals today.
She did this yesterday sometime and woke up this morning with 3 dead brittle stars, 1 yellow tang, 3 leathers, my xenia, a butt load of turbo snails and hermits, 2 sand sifters, a clown, a purple wrasse with a black stripe on its head, three or four leathers, and 4 shrimp (peppermint, and coral banded, 2 cleaner shrimp).
Not knowing what to do, I searched on here and found a awesome person that helped me rescue the few things that I have left. She knows who she is! I stripped my tank and basically did a 50% water change to drop my salt back down and even out the flow. This took four hours, do to the trickle cycle. Then I introduced my fish back to the new water, which took another hour, and re- did all my live rock. I also added crushed coral on the bottom of the tank, on top of my fine sand, so that I could get my current with out messing up the sand itself. My water was at 1.034 when I started stripping my tank, when I left it was at 1.022!!! This was with out measuring along the way, pure dumb luck! I took my water to Indoor Reef and Jeremiah, who is like my brother, did a full test on my water and says that it is pretty much perfect. My PH was a little low, but my lights were on all day and a huge water change could of caused that.
I rescued two brittles, a few hermits and turbos, one clown fish, a leopard wrasse that is fighting for his life, and we are trying to save a group of the xenia, praying that they will revive. The rest of it is dead
I'll just put it this way, my tank looks like a brand new set up, and bare as hell, it sucks. I am going to wait a while and have another test done in a week or two before I start rebuilding. Money is tight as well, so it is going to be a slow process.
I also need to desperately get new lights, I am running Power COmpacts, not even strong enough for my tank. We figured out one day that it was 3 watts per gallon------- :shock: Which is nothing!! So I can't even get anything cool till I get Halides. So I think that is going to be my next step. I am going to keep an eye on here and ebay, maybe something will be cheap enough to afford.
Thanks for reading my ordeal, Amateurs, such as my self, make sure you read about what you are doing, and mark your different water containers so this doesn't happen to you.
Good Luck, Good Fishing
She did this yesterday sometime and woke up this morning with 3 dead brittle stars, 1 yellow tang, 3 leathers, my xenia, a butt load of turbo snails and hermits, 2 sand sifters, a clown, a purple wrasse with a black stripe on its head, three or four leathers, and 4 shrimp (peppermint, and coral banded, 2 cleaner shrimp).
Not knowing what to do, I searched on here and found a awesome person that helped me rescue the few things that I have left. She knows who she is! I stripped my tank and basically did a 50% water change to drop my salt back down and even out the flow. This took four hours, do to the trickle cycle. Then I introduced my fish back to the new water, which took another hour, and re- did all my live rock. I also added crushed coral on the bottom of the tank, on top of my fine sand, so that I could get my current with out messing up the sand itself. My water was at 1.034 when I started stripping my tank, when I left it was at 1.022!!! This was with out measuring along the way, pure dumb luck! I took my water to Indoor Reef and Jeremiah, who is like my brother, did a full test on my water and says that it is pretty much perfect. My PH was a little low, but my lights were on all day and a huge water change could of caused that.
I rescued two brittles, a few hermits and turbos, one clown fish, a leopard wrasse that is fighting for his life, and we are trying to save a group of the xenia, praying that they will revive. The rest of it is dead
I'll just put it this way, my tank looks like a brand new set up, and bare as hell, it sucks. I am going to wait a while and have another test done in a week or two before I start rebuilding. Money is tight as well, so it is going to be a slow process.
I also need to desperately get new lights, I am running Power COmpacts, not even strong enough for my tank. We figured out one day that it was 3 watts per gallon------- :shock: Which is nothing!! So I can't even get anything cool till I get Halides. So I think that is going to be my next step. I am going to keep an eye on here and ebay, maybe something will be cheap enough to afford.
Thanks for reading my ordeal, Amateurs, such as my self, make sure you read about what you are doing, and mark your different water containers so this doesn't happen to you.
Good Luck, Good Fishing
