HELP!!!! Pendant light electrocuted my 150.

[albert_dao]

Man that sucks! Sorry to hear.

You should do another huge water change. Ideally in the 90% zone.

[fishoholic]

Sorry to hear that water changes and carbon should help

[SanguinesDream]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

Ideally in the 90% zone.

This has been playing over and over in my head, soooo..........I've decided to empty this tank and go back to my 55 gallon for several reasons, 1) water changes. I don't have an RO/DI so this means having to go, 5 gallon four at a time, down to the local water store, 2) the invert die off. I have so many snails in my tank that I can't keep up with the die off and am having to shake each piece of liverock off and inspect it for any dead bristleworms/snails before putting it back into my tank. 3) replacing lights. I am now down one of my ballasts and if anything has pushed me to going led, it would be this. 4) liverock. I've been trying to keep my lights lower because I haven't had enough liverock to build my reef high enough for some of my corals, until I can purchase enough liverock to build my reef higher. 5) equipment. I've been trying to limp along whilst improving my equipment piece by piece. It may be better to get the equipment first and then move to a larger tank.

One month. I had my 150 for one month. I think I will use it over the summer for aquaculturing some trout and then see about starting it back up come freeze up.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Sorry to hear. Yeah, probably a good idea to take a step back and redo the tank later when you have the time, money and equipment to set it up properly. Good luck. Water changes and carbon will help.

Anthony