Flat worm toxins/bad day at daycare

[mark0933]

Well, yesterday was a terrible day by all accounts. A hose clamp on my son's daycare tank (110G) let go and dumped 100G of water (total system was 110) all over the foyer - so 6:30AM get a phonecall for help (I set up and help maintain the tank) - to top it off, their annual meeting was last night so had to act fast.

I replaced the clamp, got water from my sump at home enough to refill it (4 hours of running back and forth from home to daycare with 15 gallons of water per trip) and things were looking OK - fish were ****ed off, but doing OK.

Last night at the meeting I noticed the chromis had passed away and the flame angel was not happy. The clowns were fine and the other fish were "hiding" - I went home and got my testing supplies, no ammonia, no temp issues, salinity was acceptible so I fished out the chromis, then noticed the flame was dead, and also found the yellow tang, and the dottyback both dead - only survivors were the clowns.

I was puzzled but chalked it up to stress (still not happy with the outcome) - but this morning I had an idea - the tank had a pretty bad outbeak of red flatworms - I bet a lot of them died from being out of water for anywhere from 1 - 3 hours, and after filing the tank with new water they would have released their toxins into the water. What do you folks think?

Next question is that since I am down to just the clowns, should I go ahead and use flat worm exit on the remaining flatworms? And will the toxins be converted by bacteria in the tank or is another 100% WC needed?

What do you all think?

Mark