Tank crash caused by Wal Mart fan!

[Lance]

Well it looks like I've lost my two largest SPS colonies.
The blue-tipped Stag has expelled all its zooxanthellae and is completely bleached. The orange Monti-Cap still has some colour left but not much.
Two other smaller colonies are toast as well: (Acropora Lovellei & Sky Blue Loisetteae).
Two large Pocci's don't look very good and my Hammer Coral is hurting, but I think will pull through.
All other corals seem ok. Both cleaner shrimp made an appearance and all the fish are fine.
I have done 3x 20gal water changes, changed the carbon twice and still the skimmer is pulling the blackest, most putrid skimmate I've ever seen. This afternoon I'm going to do a 50% water change and change the carbon again.
All very depressing but I think how much worse it could have been.

[Mrfish55]

Just saw the thread, sorry to hear, need a hand with anything let me know, I have 20 gals mixed and ready to go if needed.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

Just saw the thread, sorry to hear, need a hand with anything let me know, I have 20 gals mixed and ready to go if needed.

Thanks Dave. I'm good. I've got lots of mixed salt water and lots of carbon as well.

[Coleus]

Sorry to hear. Damn those walmart fan.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Lance

Well it looks like I've lost my two largest SPS colonies.
The blue-tipped Stag has expelled all its zooxanthellae and is completely bleached. The orange Monti-Cap still has some colour left but not much.
Two other smaller colonies are toast as well: (Acropora Lovellei & Sky Blue Loisetteae).
Two large Pocci's don't look very good and my Hammer Coral is hurting, but I think will pull through.
All other corals seem ok. Both cleaner shrimp made an appearance and all the fish are fine.
I have done 3x 20gal water changes, changed the carbon twice and still the skimmer is pulling the blackest, most putrid skimmate I've ever seen. This afternoon I'm going to do a 50% water change and change the carbon again.
All very depressing but I think how much worse it could have been.

Ugh that is just awful Lance. Keep up with the waterchanges and carbon as the ammonia levels will do some damage if they aren't continually reduced, sounds like the nastiness I dealt with after my move. I would imagine your LPS will be ok its just the SPS (acros) that are touchy and man they can really do some damage to each other as they mucous up and die. Also you can try using an ammonia reducer, it sometimes helps but be careful with the dosages.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Sorry to hear of the losses Lance. Do want me to send a frag of orange monti cap home with Christy (Marie's meeting up with her eventually) to help replace your mother colony?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Ugh that is just awful Lance. Keep up with the waterchanges and carbon as the ammonia levels will do some damage if they aren't continually reduced, sounds like the nastiness I dealt with after my move. I would imagine your LPS will be ok its just the SPS (acros) that are touchy and man they can really do some damage to each other as they mucous up and die. Also you can try using an ammonia reducer, it sometimes helps but be careful with the dosages.

Yeah it sucks! I've been testing the ammonia every 3 to 4 hours. Right now it's under .25 on a Salifert kit. The water still has a faint murkiness to it, even though I just did another 20 gal water change. I'm running 2 liters of carbon in a BRS dual reactor and changing it every 6 hours or so. I've got an old canister filter I could fill with carbon as well. Or do you think this may be too much?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Sorry to hear of the losses Lance. Do want me to send a frag of orange monti cap home with Christy (Marie's meeting up with her eventually) to help replace your mother colony?

Thanks Anthony, but I think I'll hold up for awhile and see just what happens with my cap. Portions of it still have some colour so I may be able to save some of it.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Lance

Yeah it sucks! I've been testing the ammonia every 3 to 4 hours. Right now it's under .25 on a Salifert kit. The water still has a faint murkiness to it, even though I just did another 20 gal water change. I'm running 2 liters of carbon in a BRS dual reactor and changing it every 6 hours or so. I've got an old canister filter I could fill with carbon as well. Or do you think this may be too much?

I would imagine what you have running right now is likely doing the job. Just keep up with the waterchanges if you can (which can be friggin exhausting, eventually I just said eff it and gave up, it was too much but in hindsight I wish I had kept going as I ended up having a second round of die off).

[Ryanst]

That sucks I hope everything pulls through. After reading this I decided to actually install the gfi's that have been sitting on my counter for the last couple of weeks. lol