Tank crash caused by Wal Mart fan!
 

Today was warm so I turned the fan on the sump for the 90g corner tank. Later I walked by the tank and immediately knew something was wrong. Fish were acting very strange, and the tank was murky. Looking closer I saw that all the softies and LPS were closed up, and the SPS sliming badly. I couldn't see anything obvious in the tank so I looked in the sump and found the fan had become disengaged from its base and fallen into the water. I pulled the plug out of the receptacle and removed the fan, then quickly changed out the carbon in the reactor and changed 15 gallons of water. The sump is running on a GFCI outlet, but the fan was plugged into a wall receptacle because I just use it once in awhile in the summer. (Damn that Murphy and his stupid law!)
Fish seem okay but all inverts are affected: 2 cleaner shrimp are MIA; snails look to be dying as do the Feather Dusters; clam is closed; all zoas, palys and mushrooms are closed up; all LPS are closed and SPS are sliming like crazy, which may be a good thing: if they're still sliming they're still alive.
Will wait awhile and do another water change. (Keeping fingers crossed here that it isn't as bad as it looks at the moment).

That happened to me once, Lance.....with a walmart fan no less. My tank came through it fine though

Well that's good to know. :biggrin: The large torch coral and the Duncan are starting to peek out, as are the Aiptasia (Of course! Can't kill them SOB's) The SPS are still sliming though.

omg Lance!.....I really hope everything pulls through ok for you man.....

GFCI everything!

Tank crash caused by Wal Mart fan!
 

OMG Lance that's terrible. Hope everything turns out ok. Let me know if you need anything, although I know you have some great help nearby. Luckily you didn't stick your hand in the tank before you noticed everything.


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I hate coming on here and reading a thread title like that. Best of luck I
sure you'll escape disaster.

Dude so sorry to hear about that man. I hope your tank pulls through

Good luck Lance!! Carbon and water changes...

Just changed another 15 gals of water, changed out the carbon again and things are looking a lot better. The torch, hammer, Duncan, brain, blastos, candy cane and mushrooms are starting to make an appearance now. The fox coral and all zoas still look in bad shape. The large Yellow Fiji Leather is tightly curled up and looking pretty sad. Too early to tell yet with any of the SPS, though they seem to be sliming less now, whether that's good or bad I don't know. The clam and feather dusters are still closed and still no sign of the shrimps. None of the snails have come out of their shells yet but the large striped spaghetti worm is back out and foraging. I fed a few pellets to the fish to see if they would eat and they scarfed them back so they are definitely ok. Unless I lose all the SPS colonies I'm considering myself pretty lucky.
I'll do another water change before work in the morning and then change the carbon again when I come home. I took pics and will upload them tomorrow.