Tank crashes: causes, treatment and lessons to learn.

[Rodney]

Used live rock sporting a nasty bacteria never did find out what it was but 13 fish later and a week of malafix seemed to solve the problem

[Reef Pilot]

Garlic
Selcon
Tangs
Copperbands
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[neoh]

I have several anemones, and I covered the powerheads in a nylon netting, so hopefully that helps.

Even though my bta seems to be liking the bottom of the rocks as of late.. much the the shegrin of the hosting clown.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

• Introducing Atlantic Blue tang and getting Marine Velvet as a "bonus".
• Clams spawning and turning tank into white cloudy, stinky mess.
• Holding live rock for someone as a favour and it turns out to have hair algae/aiptasia which then spreads to your display tank.
• Keeping too many "ick magnet" fish in the same tank.
• Bad salt (anybody remember the Kent salt disaster?)
• Having a boxfish or cowfish or large sea cucumber die and wipe out the tank.
• Relying on an undependable (i.e. stupid) fish-sitter while you're on vacation.
• Having visitors with kids who dump a whole container of food into your tank.

[daniella3d]

LOL!!!

very funny and probably true as well.

So far I had quite a few anemones and never got one stucket into a powerhead. I had 2 sebaes, 1 bubbletip, one huge long tentacles, two maximini carpet, and two rock flower anemones. I must have been lucky. My current anemone is a huge 12'' sebae and a 10'' maximini.

Originally Posted by Aquattro

cont'd...

water
no water
wrong water
cold water
hot water
looking at tank
not looking at tank
touching tank
not touching tank
Murphy (yes, twice)

[SanguinesDream]

Originally Posted by monkE

Good idea for a thread Ryan, kind of curious to see if anyone had an anemone get sucked through a powerhead and chopped up

*waving over here*

Every anemone I have every had the displeasure of owning, particularly the expensive ones, commits suicide in my powerheads. It's like a silent protest against Koralias.

[neoh]

Originally Posted by SanguinesDream

*waving over here*

Every anemone I have every had the displeasure of owning, particularly the expensive ones, commits suicide in my powerheads. It's like a silent protest against Koralias.

Good thing I run Tunze's

And that sucks, by the way :\

[Myka]

I had a total loss in the early 90's caused by a heater getting stuck in the "ON" position. Now I use two small heaters of which neither has the ability to cook the tank. In the summer, only one of those heaters is plugged in and it only comes on a bit at night (mostly because my fans run 24/7).

Also in the early 90's I bought a Queen Conch for my 20-gallon tank (not knowing any better). A couple weeks later the Conch died and I was naively oblivious. I came home after school to the whole house smelling like putrid gastropod death. There is no smell in the world that is worse than putrid gastropod death.

My most recent partial crash was about 18 months ago when Caulerpa went sexual in a 20-gallon reef that was overrun. The trigger was me forgetting to plug the heater in for a couple days in the winter and the tank dropped to about 70 degrees. As soon as I plugged the heater back in the Caulerpa got frisky. Luckily I caught it early and only lost one fish. Sadly I lost one fish.

[mrhasan]

I think 99.99% reason for crash is owing a saltwater tank (0.01% is putting a plastic bag in the ocean which in turn chokes a whale)