Help appreciated.

[Zylumn]

You can see through my fowler now but my fish are starting to stress with the water changes. I have a fluval 205 I am going to try and set up with carbon and wait a couple of hours on any more changes. When I wiped the inside glass it was like an out break of cyano. In my reef my feather dusters come out for a second to test and then close up again. I will continue water changes in the reef but will slow down. I dislike salt mixing in the tank so I will mix and heat again for 1 hour.
Thanks all for the help it has been a horrible day and I hope to possibly explain later.
Kevin

[Delphinus]

You should try your hardest to match the temperature and salinities of the incoming and outgoing water, that will help ease your fish a little.

Also, fresh salt is quite caustic. Do let it mix before using it.

In an emergency, the best way to mix salt in a hurry is use a drill and a paint mixer attachment. This method of mixing salt oxygenates it or oxidizes it (or something - there's some in depth article about it you can read one day if you're interested, but for now don't worry about the theory). Anyhow with this method, mix for a couple minutes and then your water can be used right away. I don't know where you live but if you're in the south you're welcome to borrow one of mine, I have 2 that I use for just this purpose (emergency saltwater making) - they have never touched paint in their life.

[Delphinus]

I guess I sort of worded that poorly - technically even if you don't live in the south you're still welcome to borrow it - it's just that I live very far south and thus if you're in the north it will be a very long drive.

[Zylumn]

Thank you Tony I got a 203 not a fluval 205 up and running with zeo-carb in all 3 levels. I have changed 80% in the fowler and 100% in the reef. My nass snails are out now in the fowler but in the reef they are staying embedded in the sand.

To shed light on why there is booze in my tanks is my wife and I left for the weekend and our (no longer trusted 17 y/o) decided to have a few friends over. His party was crashed by a calgary gang of punks and a vehicle and our house was heavily damaged, as was our son received a total of 37 stitches and I thought this only happened in GVTA and GTA.

[Delphinus]

I hope he recovers well. Best of luck.

Man it's like kids needs to hire bouncers and rent-a-cops if they want to throw a party. The stories I hear are terrible!

[Van-rookie]

Kevin,

I know how you feel.
My nephew (who is staying with me) decided to have a "little" party with some friends while I was working last week. It ended up with me getting some bills for the 911 and dry cleaning the carpet in the lobby building.

And now he is already wondering around again with his friends
Have to send him back to his parents

[Zylumn]

He is fine, I think in shock still, but will have permanent reminders of this. Every room in our house has some sort of damage and we feel so violated. We need to stop these kids. But as I said to my wife we have a boy thats still walking and a house thats still standing , it could be worse.

I never noticed my tanks till later in the day as they were one of the first things I checked. But my lights had not come on yet and couldn't tell they were cloudy in the dark. So they have been polluted for about 14-16 hours. I will change out water at it is ready for the next few hours. My skimmers have been working like crazy. Each of them er 5-3 and er 6-3 have been filling up with watery skim you can't see through every 2 hours or so. I will keep you posted.
Kevin

[skylord]

A lot of small water changes can be very stressful....I think I would rather wait a little longer for salt to mix so I could do at least 25% or 50% changes, provided I could get the water warmed up fast enough.

Scott

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Kevin! This is TERRIBLE! Let me know if I can help with the tank in any way.

As well, I'm assuming you've pressed charges? I have plenty of experience charging $%#&-disturbing youth, as well...so just let me know if there's anything I can do. Good luck.