Advice? That moment when.......

you jump out of the shower singing i can see clearly now. get dressed to go to work walk past your fish tank and hear a gurgling noise coming from the tank. open the cabinet door and notice your pump is dry pumping and your skimmer is pumping all the water onto the carpet. i turn on my lights to the tank and the water is all cloudy the only water movement is from the circ pump. and you see all your coral oozing slime and a fish on its side. i jumped into action and got my air pump out started my RODI unit up moved all my coral from my tank to a ten gallon tank that would fit. after about three coral losses and a fish right at this moment its minimal damage than what it could be some coral is still touch and go. so obviously the tank crashed now. what advice do you guys have to bring back the tank? i did a 33% water change already started running carbon to pull out some toxins the zoos maybe have released i have my skimmer running pretty wet. what else can be done besides time? thanks for the help!

 

Oh man sorry to hear that!

Do you know why the skimmer was doing that?

You can try dipping all of your corals in coral rx to see if that will help.

 

the tank was fine at midnight and the girlfriend said the tank was fine at 5am. i saw the tank at 745 am when it was running dry. so the only options i can think of is
1: a fish i had in my sump died (he was too mean to keep with others) and caused the skimmer to go crazy i haven't seen him since this morning.
2: the nem took a monster crap.
other than that i got no idea what it could have been that could have made the skimmer go crazy.
water wasn't going down to the sump it was just in the display and the only thing that was keeping the water moving was the circ pump so i just figured it could have been oxygen related

 

No i dont think it was the skimmer either somethimg made the skimmer go crazy. Oh well so you guys think doimg water chamges every other day for a week is alittle excessive? Or just leave it be for a week and let the tank do its thing?

 

I do small water changes every day

I see no problem in doing small water changes daily

 

Thanks @blackx-runner and @Armydog for the imput!

 

Did the fish you were keeping in the sump get sucked into the return pump? That would cause all of the issues u described.

 

My sump from left chamber to right chamber is
1. HOB filter just incase i need to start a qt
Drainline from the DT
10lbs liverock
Skimmer
Abs the fish its yellow with purple stripe down the back
Chamber 2. Heater and cheato
Chamber 3. Return pump.

I cleaned the return pump yesterday i didnt see him on the pump mauve he died in the rocks. When i get home from work ill pull the LR and skimmer see if i can find him.

 

Any update on the tank???

 

Yea so when it happened i pulled all the fish and coral that was for sure dead out of the tank. And put the rest that was barely hanging on for dear life into the small 10 gallons nano i have set up. I did a couple of water changes the first week and ran carbon like crazy to get whatever is in their out. After about 3 weeks I slowly added some coral to see how it would react some things liked it other didn't. But about two weeks ago I added a sps colony and its growing so whatever was in the water is gone now. Never found the cause. But this is what it looks like now.nothing to fancy

 

At least you pulled threw the heart ach. amd you kept your chin up. @MadManMadrid

 

Oh trust me it was a close call of selling it or not haha. I didn't want to wait for it to do its thing again. But hey that's what this hobbie is waiting. But im glad i stuck with it i love my tank

 

looks good man nice aquascape and tank

 

Thanks @cameron lake i cant take credit for that part that was the gf @bethytypeperson

 

oh thats cool your gf does this two.

 

Internal or external skimmer

 

It's a internal skimmer but i have a tube going from the collection cup to a empty liquor bottle. @abower