Wow that was a depressing

Seriak · #1 12-08-2003, 09:58 PM

I moved my tank on Sunday to the other side of my room and when I woke up in the morning pretty much everything was dead. Some of the hardier corals look like they might survive, but all my fish and shrimp are gone. I am so depresssed right now.

Would milky water kill my tanks inhabitants. That is the only thing I can think of. The same water that came out went back in. The temperatures were the same. I just don't understand.

I know one thing for sure, I will never move my tank again without having another tank already setup somewhere else to store my reef until the new tank is ready.

Life is sad! And then its gets even sadder!

LostMind · #2 12-08-2003, 10:03 PM

wow man. That really sucks.

Sorry for your loss.

dekay · #3 12-08-2003, 10:05 PM

damn, sux to hear that.

you mentioned milky water? did you mean cloudy water from a dsb?

Aquattro · #4 12-08-2003, 10:36 PM

Hate hearing that kinda thing. Any idea what the "milky" was?

Seriak · #5 12-08-2003, 10:51 PM

Yeah, it was fron my sandbed. I tried to keep the silt down, but it still looked like pea soup after 4 hours. So far, one survivior. My clown fish!!

EmilyB · #6 12-08-2003, 10:51 PM

Was it the BTA's ? They spawn (and stress can bring this on). Horrible mess...

Aquattro · #7 12-08-2003, 10:52 PM

Unless it war really dirty and caused a huge ammonia spike (which I doubt), I can't see the sand doing that. I've moved sand before with no problem whatsoever.

Seriak · #8 12-08-2003, 11:37 PM

The two anenomes seem to be doing fine now that the lights are on!

Delphinus · #9 12-08-2003, 11:50 PM

Sorry to hear it, Chris

Good luck on the recovery of the survivors!! Let me know if you need anything.

Beverly · #10 12-09-2003, 01:36 AM

Sounds like something that happened to a guy on RC. He moved his sandbed and folks there think it was the sulfate stirred up from the anaerobic part of the bed that caused the wipeout.

Sorry to hear about the loss

Heck, I've moved 3" sandbeds a few times, too, without any loss. I wonder what we did differently to have such different results? Hmmm....

Whenever I moved a sandbed, I was usually moving the tank from one house to another. That meant all rock went into pails with tankwater, corals and fish in pails in other pails of tankwater, and finally, the sandbed in pails with just a bit of tankwater. When I got to the new location, I cleaned and rinsed the tank well. By that time, the sandbed stank bad, so I scooped the sand into the tank leaving the stinky water behind. Then I put in some of the rock, then added the old water, put in more rock and added old water and so on. I made sure I had NSW made at the new location to top up water that would be lost. PHs would be put into the tank as soon as there was enough water, usually when the tank was only half full.

I'm wondering if maybe having the sandbed in pails with some tankwater for a bit and discarding that water may have saved the day in my situations.