BTA killed by Vortech overnight! Help!

[DiverDude]

It's a good idea to keep at least 1 extra bucket of salt on hand for emergencies as well as RO/DI water.

I always have ~40 gal of water on hand and an unopened bucket of salt on standby !

[ponokareefer]

I had the same thing happen a few years back and you are doing all that you can. I'd look into some type of screen for the powerhead if you are looking at getting another RBTA.

There was a video posted by someone on here a while back where they video taped a BTA through the night and it was amazing how much they can move around.

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by ponokareefer

I'd look into some type of screen for the powerhead if you are looking at getting another RBTA.

There was a video posted by someone on here a while back where they video taped a BTA through the night and it was amazing how much they can move around.

That was me who did a timelapse of our RBTA overnight. Man, that poor thing moved like crazy for a few nights before it settled down. We always had serious protection over the intakes of our powerheads so those kinds of mishaps did not occur. Poor RBTA RIP

[NastayNatron]

Alright well the tank seems to have cleared up a lot. I usually do have extra salt on hand but red coral was all out of H2Ocean which was the kind I have been using. I ran out this morning and bought Instant Ocean as I have been thinking about switching to this for a while. The lights come on in 15 minutes so well see if the fish are out and about swimming like usual. I sure hope they are. As for the anenome im pretty choked. Ive been wanting one since I got into the hobby and now after this im not sure Ill try one again for a while. I should have had the sponge screen over the vortechs to try and prevent this.

Anyways ill keep you updated on progress. For now here are a few pics.

The BTA after being intoduced to the tank



Waterchange



Carbon running in the two reactors

[mexxedm]

Yep, it happened to me twice since the last 6 weeks. First time, all the fishes and corals died. It have just happened again yesterday. The only fish survive in the cloudy water is clown fishes. Leather coral died. I know I should not have done this but I removed all water out of my 29g tank. Put new water in. The water was not clear. Cloudy is still there. Changed 10% of water last night. The water got worse this morning. Changed water again this morning. Crossing my fingers that everything will still survive when I get home. It's amazing that cleaner shrimps and peppermint shrimps are still survive in cloudy and stinky water...
I always like the RBTA. It looks very nice. If it does not want to be in the tank, just go and pass out somewhere in the tank instead of committing suicide to the power head and kills everything in my tank :'(

[rastaangel]

Ive had 3 different nems hit a powerhead... I feel your pain, first time it wiped out my tank from sitting in the powerhead for the weekend. Second time I watched it happen, all slow-mo like, so I got it out fast. Third time there was nothing else in my tank to kill off.

[intarsiabox]

My nem has been sucked into my powerhead four times now and it's still doing fine. Unless your RBTA is completely shredded to pieces I wouldn't write it off as dead yet.