280g Inwall

[Delphinus]

Thanks Greg

[Delphinus]

Well sounds like I've had my first disaster here.

Have been running a red slime problem and it had been getting steadily worse and worse. Got to the point that I decided to do a red slime treatment although I really was hesitant to do so on account that I hate doing them, I hate how the skimmer goes berserk for a week and all that goes with it.

Well, 2 days post treatment and it seems that all my clams are dead.

Got a panicked phone call from home but I'm stuck between an emergency at work and an emergency at home. Although I suppose at this point it's no longer an emergency but rather grim cleanup waiting for me when I get home.

I hate this hobby, I hate what it does to me.

Never seen a cyano treatment actually take out clams before. I wonder what else I will end up losing.

[Lance]

Aw no Tony. That's terrible! I know how much you love your clams. I feel your pain.

[kien]

Damn that sucks goat nads Tony . Sorry to hear..

[christyf5]

$hit Tony, thats just awful!! I've done several treatments without any clam issues. Odd.

[wayner]

Shite Man, sorry to hear about this, I just did a treatment on the week-end with Chemi-Clean and everything appears to be fine, talk about bad luck

I feel for ya.

[andestang]

So are we talking all clams here ? Even the big fella ? Whats with all the clam disasters lately ? I've always had a clam or two or more and never experienced any problems if we're talking Boyd's chemi-clean. I've used it several times over the years with no regrets. This is just awful, so sorry Tony

[fishytime]

I feel for ya Tony.....really I do.....I always try and steer peeps away from doing a chemical band-aid type solutions, in favor of trying to figure out whats causing the issue......in your case I think we know whats causing it.....its a new tank.....perhaps the fact that the tank is in its infancy combined with the treatment is what caused the clamcrash?

[reefwars]

any chance its expired or something?? sorry to hear about your little buddies i hope it gets better for youcheers

[Delphinus]

I do agree with you Doug, I was really torn on this but the thing that made me pull the trigger in the end was that it was starting to bring down other livestock - snails who eat cyano die and it was smothering the blue zoas I had bought from Greg a little while ago. I'm not sure if they're recoverable at this point.

Anyhow I'm home now and I guess karma has been kind to me today. The carnage is not as bad as what it sounded like. Definitely dead is my blue spotted squamosa. My teardrop is gaping badly as is my hippopus. Linda forgot about my small crocea and small maxima so didn't check them when telling me the sitrep over the phone but luckily so far they seem to be OK.

What's happened is when I put my skimmer back online last night, I juryrigged it so that it was sucking hardly any air because it foams up so bad at first startup after a cyano treatment. What I failed to take into account was that the ATO is fed into the skimmer intake (an idea someone told me about that keeps the venturi clear of deposits. It works well but..). I actually did unplug the topup controller thinking that this would be good enough. Anyhow, wrong. What happened is all that suction from the skimmer recirc caused a siphon and emptied the top up reservoir. So the skimmer overflowed like crazy, the 5g bucket I was draining into spilled over so there's water everywhere, smells lovely too, and the sump is filled to the top. It emptied my RO/DI reservoir but since I filled it up on Sundays, it should have no more than 1/2 - 2/3 full at this point so it should only have dumped about 20g into the tank. The salinity has definitely been pulled down but only a few points. That's probably why the clams are gaping although I'm surprised that there is a definitely death on account of the salinity so I'm still wondering if it could have been the cyano treatment.

No cyano though yay?