Electrocuted entire tank!!! - Death Toll Update

Tangman · #1 02-02-2007, 05:49 PM

good luck

bassman · #2 02-02-2007, 05:54 PM

Thank you.

OCDP · #3 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 · #4 02-02-2007, 07:28 PM

Thanks so much.

I sure hope they all pull through.

vanreefer · #5 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 · #6 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.

Black Phantom · #7 02-03-2007, 03:14 AM

Glad to hear that everything looks like it should recover. On another more serious note, get your GFI installed now. If you had been reaching into the tank when that fan fell it might have been a different story.
People don't realize that when you get electrocuted your muscles contract and it is impossible to let go of the energized object. This means that if your arm is in your tank you won't be able to push away.
Just a thought.