Electrocuted entire tank!!! - Death Toll Update

bassman · #1 02-02-2007, 05:10 PM

I thought so too. I am running some now, I always do but I will replace it with some new stuff tonight.

It's hard to tell as my lights were off this morning and had been since 8:00 o'clock last night so most of my corals would normally be closed anyways.

I did find one dead snail this morning. The conch that I thought was dead last night has since moved so he must be okay. My harlequin shrimp, arrow crab and hermits all seem fine.

The fish are always behind the rock work in the AM so I couldn't see how they were doing, none of them died anyways so that's good.

I did see some pods with my flashlight this morning, that to me is a good sign. I would think that they would have fried first.

My elegance coral (which had the fan laying right on top of it) seemed to be opened up a bit more this morning and my clam was 80% open too.

I will know more when I get home afterwork, which seems like days away LOL

I couldn't even eat last night I felt so sick to my stomach.

It looks like I might have gotten lucky. Only time will tell I guess.
One of my concerns is how many toxins were released into the water by all of my corals and anemones trying to defend themselves against what they probably thought was an attack. My skimmer looked like someone had poured dish washing soap into it last night, major foam. I cranked it up a bit so it will skim more wet today, hopefully that will help. It didn't seem too be quite as foamy this morning.

I am still crossing my fingers.

Tangman · #2 02-02-2007, 05:49 PM

good luck

bassman · #3 02-02-2007, 05:54 PM

Thank you.

OCDP · #4 02-02-2007, 06:56 PM

Sounds like things are pulling through okay.....

I would continue doing regular water changes and running lots of carbon to remove as much toxins, etc as possible.

If your fish are alive and corals/inverts are showing signs of life.. I'd say things are looking up.

Good luck and sorry to hear the unfortunate news.

bassman · #5 02-02-2007, 07:28 PM

Thanks so much.

I sure hope they all pull through.

vanreefer · #6 02-02-2007, 10:53 PM

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=27483

same thing happened to me about 5 months ago with a clip on light... not to be the bearer of bad news but everything died with the exception of 2 pieces of SPS and my frogspawn... it took several weeks for the fish to die... I hope that my experience was not the norm for your sake... best of luck and I would do lots of water changes and run lots and lots of C

Good luck

Dan

bassman · #7 02-03-2007, 02:15 AM

1st I am very sorry to hear about your loss, trust me I now know exactly how felt.

I was just wondering, did the bulb break? Light bulbs contain some pretty nasty chemicals and gases.

I read you original thread and some of what you seem to have experienced hasn't to happen to me (yet), as far as the merkyness (sp?) in your sump water goes and none of my corals have bleached.

Obviously I am reaching for straws here, just hoping I don't loose everything.

Update for today is that my fish all appear fine. The white edges on my purple tangs fins are gone. All are eating and acting normal.

My corals have not returned to normal by any means. Some of them appear to be a little more open then yesterday and others are totally closed. My frogspawn looks grey :-( and my star polyps have not opened at all. My poor feather duster looks totally frazzled but atleast it's coming out.

I guess it's a waiting game now. I did a 10% water change tonight and I will do 10% a day for a couple of days atleast. I added new carbon to my sump and am planning to replace that in a few days as well.