8 hours of top off/flooding kills almost everything

[nrosdal]

well, i just went down and checked for improvements and here is my update


Dead:

sebae anemone 12"
frogspawn
hammer
torch
acans
kenya tree

Still alive (might make it)

carpet anemone
polyps

not the best of turn outs.. but very happy and surprised that the carpet has made it through so far.

Mark, those mushrooms almost are appealing right about now... are you sure you have any extras to spare?

thanks all for condolences

my new ato plan is going to include a 3.5gal ro storage tank that i will fill when needed and will be the only water available to float switch in tank. Been meaning to do this for a while now, lesson learned i guess.

pics coming...

[Borderjumper]

That's good news that the nem is going to pull thru! And like the others, I'm very sorry for your losses.

[xenon]

Hard lesson.

We never use a top-off container larger than what would fit in the sump if our ATO fails.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Ouch. That's why I use a 5g salt bucket for my top-up.

+1... well mine is 12G

I always heard running a direct line was insane. This is not
Uncommon to hear about over running and flooding.

Sucks. Hope you rebound on the up side.

Sorry for your loss.

[nrosdal]

ammonia seems to keep going up... i moved all the rock around searching for dead things that i may have missed only to find big piles of dead bristleworms under each rock. and sucked em up/did a 20g water change. Which has dropped it a bit, but i have a feeling i am gonna have to keep this up for a bit before things normalize. Below it is pretty easy to see where the big water change happened.



the bonus of the day was while moving rocks i did a tally of the fish i could see and All fish are officially alive. Very happy about that as my female lion was very bloated and hiding for the last couple days.

[daniella3d]

My JBJ auto-topoff has a fail safe so it will never fill more than for 3 minutes worth of water. Pretty much fool proof and been working flawlessly for 2 years, both of them (2 aquariums equiped with one).

So I limite the water available? no need to

Originally Posted by nrosdal

in case anyone was wondering what would happen if your ato broke or like me you decided to manually top off your tank and forgot to turn it off overnight(because my float valve has been acting up and i wanted to be safe).


the end result is a very wet floor and 90% of corals dead. the salinity went down to 1.009 and sat there for 8ish hours before i went down and found all the goodness. i have since brought it back to 1.02 ish and will slowly bring it back to normal from here over the next couple days.

it looks like a few things may survive, i am hoping that my carpet nem is one of them... it has mildly improved since bringing water back in reasonable range.

anyways, i just wanted to share my story and remind everyone once again to limit the amount of water available to your ato/fill valve.

i will post some pics over the next few days and show if anything recovers.

and maybe start posting in the fowlr forum for a while as most of the fish seem to have made it through

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

My JBJ auto-topoff has a fail safe so it will never fill more than for 3 minutes worth of water. Pretty much fool proof and been working flawlessly for 2 years, both of them (2 aquariums equiped with one).

So I limite the water available? no need to

Does the fail safe reset if the power cycles?

Sorry for your losses Nick.

[Seriak]

That is why I like the tunze ATO. It has an upper float valve that will prevent the ATO from filling if it is over a certain level. I have also combined this with a 10 gallon resevoir that shouldn't kill anything even if everything was dumped into my system. The only problem is I only get about 5 days before my resevoir is empty so someone does have to fill it when I go away for a week.

Sorry for your loss.

[nrosdal]

water parameters are back to where they should be, and the sole survivor seems to be doing much better. Was very tempted today to start re-stocking when i saw a very large elegance coral at the store.. but have decided rearrange rocks and try to make a plan before i start buying pretty things.

[ashr]

Im really sorry for your loss! Hope it gets better soon!

Also what is the www.seneye.me you are using