Urgent Help Please..!!

[SaltyBalls]

I came home today to find my Xenia colony shriveled up. I start thinking "What the hell?" Then I notice Anthelia colony looks the same way along with my snails are all dead.? I open the bottom of my tank to look at the refugium and the damn light is sitting in the water. It was off luckily when it fell. Anyways it sat down there for at least a few hours, enough to where the chemicals in one of the capacitors leaked into my tank....(I believe). All fish / Colt Coral / crabs are okay at the moment. Should I do a water change immediately...? Input please.......

 

[snobanker]

Salty, welcome to reef frontiers (I always wanted to be first) .....You came to the right place.

What kind of light was it?

 

[SaltyBalls]

9 inch coralife

 

[DonW]

I came home today to find my Xenia colony shriveled up. I start thinking "What the hell?" Then I notice Anthelia colony looks the same way along with my snails are all dead.? I open the bottom of my tank to look at the refugium and the damn light is sitting in the water. It was off luckily when it fell. Anyways it sat down there for at least a few hours, enough to where the chemicals in one of the capacitors leaked into my tank....(I believe). All fish / Colt Coral / crabs are okay at the moment. Should I do a water change immediately...? Input please.......

Keep doing water changes until you get back on track. Open the light up and verify it actually leaked chemicals. Add fresh carbon also.

Don

 

[WaterDogs]

Most definitely, do a very large water change...

 

[Scooterman]

Continue with as big of water changes you can do, it may take several days. If your tank life is still dieing then you may need farther steps like a hospital tank.

 

[SaltyBalls]

Thank You all for the responses...great board. I did a 15 gallon water change last night. and plan on doing another one tomorrow morning. The death and destruction stopped as soon as I removed the light. This leads me to believe that a low current killed all the snails and damaged my softies, not chemicals. My buddy (who owns a local coral shop) hooked me up with some new snails and a polymer filter. The polymer filter is now a light blue color now (implying that copper is evident). I hope the anthelia and xenia come back...theres not much left, other than that everything is on the way back to the norm.
thanks again...I'll definitely be hangin around.
Rob

 

[Pauls]

electrocution sucks, My bro in law fried all the fish in his 240 g fish only when the lighting wires dipped into the water. Turns out it takes about 4 days to electrocute fish with a 40 watt florescent. He didn't have any corals in the tank so i cant help you with symptoms on corals. but the fish swam funny for days until the died. When you raised the lid of the hood the wires lifted out of the water in the overflow so you could not tell what was happening, no shocking sensation when you reached in. The blue color on your pad suggests copper as you said and copper is really bad on softies and inverts. change change change you water man. Hope all turns out well

 

[SaltyBalls]

Thanks, I have 4 anthias' in my tank and I love em so much I would've been so pissed if they died.