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Twin Tank Crash Ouch

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Whitebird1

I am not sure what happened but my first attempt at stocking crashed both tanks. Had 2 small recordea mushrooms and 2 sm clumps of zoos doing great. All water tests good, alk off on one. Put a teaspoon of seachem Reef builder in each tank and some cheato, handful, moved the livestock and 10 new small frags into tank 2 on thurs PM.  Fri-Cloudy both tanks.  Sat- both tanks really cloudy and all livestock closed and shrunkin. did emergency water changes twice.  Water clear now but all recodrea, zoos, leathers look bad.  One just threw up stuff.  Pretty sure its a total loss!  :'(Gonna go get a beer now.  Need one!!
New reefer
Greg
 
Phyl

Phyl

Officer Emeritus
Officer Emeritus
Try not to panic. Slow methodical changes. Make sure that the salinity, temp, etc is all identical before doing water changes. The stuff you have in there is all pretty tolerant of change and water issues. They may look bad (leathers will shrink under stress or when they're growing, and usually bounce back pretty easily). The worst thing you can do for them is panic.

Take a deeeeep breath. Unless you're getting an ammo reading everything should be just fine.
 
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Whitebird1

Try not to panic.!! Allready did that, changed water and temp was to low!!
All stock looks bad , Shrunk, off color, dead looking. OUCH!!
 
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JasonR

Dont let it get you down
Put some carbon in
Get some more water mixed up for tomarrow
Do another change
You will become a Expert in no time

Jason
 
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Whitebird1

New carbon is already in. New water is being airrated & heated. do not believe that anything could have gotten into the tanks.

Greg
 
Phyl

Phyl

Officer Emeritus
Officer Emeritus
Is the fuge area that you have the macro in lit? If not it may have spewed (gone sexual)? Don't worry about it not looking good right now. It will all bounce back.
 
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Whitebird1

Thanks for the support, time for sleep, will check on tanks in the AM or like last night 3am 330am 4am 5am. do not PANIC!! no not me!!!
 
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steve68

could be u added to many frags at once where they all soft?
what ever u do dont do like a 75% to a 100% water change.
good luck.
 
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Whitebird1

Of course the 1st thing I did sat was a 100% water change. All were soft types. Everything is still closed up, leather fell apart this am. I think I did every rookie mistake in the proper order so far. All were very small frags, do not beleave it was overloaded, the tank that was empty crashed same time, maybe cheto in the tanks, its all gone now.
Greg
 
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Whitebird1

Thanks for the support. A few of the zoos opened back up!! Recordea is not happy but may be comming back too! Leathers , candy cane, purple bumpe stuff melting, not good.
Not giving up! Think I will wait 2 weeks or better, sipon up debre, and let the tanks settle down. Will buy new test kits also.
steve68, much appreaciate your offer, when I have confidence that the tanks are settled, I would like to take you up on that, few mushrooms, easy stuff. I feel bad that I waisted such nice stock already with rookie mistakes.
Thanks again
Greg
 
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