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Went away for the long weekend and since my CBB had just kicked it after 2 healthy years I felt I could get away with just using an autofeeder for pellets for my remaining fish.

No clue how it happened but my autofeeder fell into my tank while I was away dumping a tonne of pellets and letting an electrical current run rampant through my tank.

Lost my yellow assessor, 2 clams and ALL of my sps.
Thought it was a lot worse at first but it turned out after 200% water changes since then that all of my other fish were just hiding and my zoas were all closed up.

Things are perking up, but what a disaster...
to have smelled it, one would think that it was a total wipe out.

Damn dude sorry to read this. How was it fastened?

Sorry for ur losses:cry: sounds like this is happening alot currently??

Sorry to here this.

Ugh.

Can you let us know which feeder and how it was mounted ? Maybe your experience can help someone else avoid a similar situation.

It is shocking, isn't it! :mrgreen:

Sad to hear this. :sad: First my fan and now your auto-feeder.
Sounds like yours was a little worse than mine though. I never lost any fish, just a few corals.

ugh...
And my yellow assessor was by far my most interactive fish...
the tank seems to dull now comparatively speaking.


It was the Rena auto feeder and it was attached by 3m velcro tape to my eurobace.

I still can't figure out how it became detached from the velcro...
If anything, I was worried about the glue on the velcro tape coming off but the velcro some became actually detached....?

Also, I have now installed a grounding probe...lol


Now it's frag shopping time I suppose...

Also going to keep an eye out for a good deal on another yellow assessor...maybe try and get two or three this time around and introduce them all simultaneously

just some input
I was thinking about this when I was setting up my tank. I read some stories about autofeeders falling into tanks a few times. So one of the things that really intrigued me about using a mesh top was that I could feed through it. My pellets go right through the mesh and it has no chance of falling in if it ever fell. I also place the autofeeder above the light rack so i dont have to mess with it when Im opening the lid. you also cannot even tell its there unless you look for it or if you are really tall.

btw why you like the yellow assessor so much?