Alfredshouse is gone.....

[alfredshouse]

I woke up this morning to find all my fish dead. Shrimps dead. Urchin dead. All the fish I just bought dead. Alfred, my favourite Yellow Tang dead. Starting testing my water and found my nitrate had a huge spike in it. I blame this on my FX5, I should of had a sump, which Im building right now. Im devastated. Please dont tell me what a moron I am, Ive already figured this out. Im hoping all my corals dont die. can I change my screen name to nobodyshouse?

I lost:

Yellow tang
Clown Tang
Other Tang
2 fire shrimp
2 cleaner shrimp
3 damsels
Foxface
Cleaner Wrasse
Mosiac Wrasse
Lemon Wrasse
2 Dartfish
2 Gudgeon
Spiny Urchin
Mated pair Blue Line Cinnamon Clowns
other Gobies and various other creatures

[Chowder]

Really sorry to here.

[Leah]

Oh no, not good. Sorry to hear that.

[belzebuth]

Alfred was her Yellow Tang... We found him dead this morning

[mseepman]

So sorry to hear. Although I think the overwhelming majority of people would prefer a sump, there are some pretty nice little systems out there running on FX5's so I hope you don't blame yourself too much.

[castaway]

Sorry to hear of your losses.
I've had my share as have most others.

[dkcrx]

So sad!

[alfredshouse]

SG 1.024
PH 7.8
NO2 0
NO3 20
O2 5+

This is from opening the lids, adding two bubble wands, pointing the koralia 4 toward the surface and other koralia lower, still have the FX5 going, and sump will be finished thursday. I expect the parameters to just get better now. I will test my tanks for O2 levels from now on and never make this mistake again! Just other mistakes!!! I have to have a sense of humor after all this.

[reef bound]

Your poor hubby stuck in the carport till Thursday hehe. Sorry for your losses. But always a learning experience for ourselves and others.

[fkshiu]

You don't need the bubble wands. They'll only cause unwanted salt creep.