8 hours of top off/flooding kills almost everything

[nrosdal]

well, i just went down and checked for improvements and here is my update


Dead:

sebae anemone 12"
frogspawn
hammer
torch
acans
kenya tree

Still alive (might make it)

carpet anemone
polyps

not the best of turn outs.. but very happy and surprised that the carpet has made it through so far.

Mark, those mushrooms almost are appealing right about now... are you sure you have any extras to spare?

thanks all for condolences

my new ato plan is going to include a 3.5gal ro storage tank that i will fill when needed and will be the only water available to float switch in tank. Been meaning to do this for a while now, lesson learned i guess.

pics coming...

[nrosdal]

i also just noticed that my Seneye sent me an email saying that my ph was way low an hour after i forgot to shut it off... kinda wish i had my emails with a ring on my phone not silent.

here is a chart of the last few days in the tank... ph shouws where things got a bit off track... ammonia has gone up quite a bit with all the die off.



here is the bucket of sadness



and yesterdays fts



and a fts from a week or 2 back

[Borderjumper]

That's good news that the nem is going to pull thru! And like the others, I'm very sorry for your losses.

[marblesab]

Ugh, thats heart breaking. So sorry for the loss!

[Sunee]

That's terrible! Sorry for your losses.

[mike31154]

I've got plenty of Kenya Tree frags if you'd like to repopulate your tank with those. Could also break off a piece of Hammer, it's getting pretty big again.

[nrosdal]

thanks for the offers guys, but i am gonna try to get things back where they should be for a while and make a plan before i start adding things again.

However, if anyone as some mangroves in the okanagan valley i would love to buy a few and try to go that way insted of cheato this time and see how it works.

here are a few pics of the survivors, they seem to be making improvements so things are looking up


orange carnation surprisingly stuck it out and looks semi ok


carpet nem


polyps

[daniella3d]

My JBJ auto-topoff has a fail safe so it will never fill more than for 3 minutes worth of water. Pretty much fool proof and been working flawlessly for 2 years, both of them (2 aquariums equiped with one).

So I limite the water available? no need to

Originally Posted by nrosdal

in case anyone was wondering what would happen if your ato broke or like me you decided to manually top off your tank and forgot to turn it off overnight(because my float valve has been acting up and i wanted to be safe).


the end result is a very wet floor and 90% of corals dead. the salinity went down to 1.009 and sat there for 8ish hours before i went down and found all the goodness. i have since brought it back to 1.02 ish and will slowly bring it back to normal from here over the next couple days.

it looks like a few things may survive, i am hoping that my carpet nem is one of them... it has mildly improved since bringing water back in reasonable range.

anyways, i just wanted to share my story and remind everyone once again to limit the amount of water available to your ato/fill valve.

i will post some pics over the next few days and show if anything recovers.

and maybe start posting in the fowlr forum for a while as most of the fish seem to have made it through

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Ouch. That's why I use a 5g salt bucket for my top-up.

+1... well mine is 12G

I always heard running a direct line was insane. This is not
Uncommon to hear about over running and flooding.

Sucks. Hope you rebound on the up side.

Sorry for your loss.

[nrosdal]

ammonia seems to keep going up... i moved all the rock around searching for dead things that i may have missed only to find big piles of dead bristleworms under each rock. and sucked em up/did a 20g water change. Which has dropped it a bit, but i have a feeling i am gonna have to keep this up for a bit before things normalize. Below it is pretty easy to see where the big water change happened.



the bonus of the day was while moving rocks i did a tally of the fish i could see and All fish are officially alive. Very happy about that as my female lion was very bloated and hiding for the last couple days.