70% tank crash

[oKrazyii]

My house lost power yesterday and it was not restored until roughly 8am this morning. Power shut off maybe around 4 the day before? I went into my fish room around 10pm to check all my fish while the power was off and everything seemed fine. Unfortunately this morning I woke up and through the night my 2 firefins both jumped out of the same side of the tank, my cleaner shrimp, both peppermint shrimp, my clownfish and some snails and hermits are all dead, and my starry eyed blenny is acting VERY lethargic and his color his fading so I believe he is soon to be gone also. I have 2 pistol shrimp under rocks that I can only assume are also dead, my ammonia seems a little high but that’s about it, I’m worried all of my coral is going to die throughout the night and I’m not sure what to do. I’ve added prime to the system just incase to hopefully keep the rest of the tank alive but I’m looking for any advice possible on what I should do next. Unfortunately I wasn’t prepared and don’t have the money to get water for a water change right now or that would’ve been the first thing I did, I should also add I just did a water change 3 days ago and everything in my tank has been doing amazing with 0 problems

 

[oKrazyii]

Also wanted to add all of my coral are completely fine, open and unbothered

 

[Gone Reefin’]

Were you running any emergency measures? Battery air pump, or turning water over manually?

Going to guess you had oxygen deprivation, which killed fish and some inverts. Death is causing some ammonia. If minimal, corals should be fine. I’ve read on this forum that prime is not great for ammonia neutralization, but will let others chime in.

 

[Lavey29]

Is your power on or off now? Get a battery operated airstone.

 

[oKrazyii]

Is your power on or off now? Get a battery operated airstone.

Been on since 8am, and yeah I’m getting on as soon as possible I just wasn’t prepared

 

[slingfox]

You can just take a bucket and scoop up and pour the bucket of water back into the tank several times. Do that a few times an hour. Obviously it is better to use an airstone but if you don’t have a battery operated airstone then manual labor can keep the fish alive.

 

[oKrazyii]

My starry blenny is nowhere to be found now, hoping he just went under a rock somewhere and pops back up tomorrow, engineer goby is still fine though, I plan to dose prime the next 2 days just incase and then I think I’m going to have to get all my coral frags and rocks out and see what else I lost to this. Wish me luck I guess lol

 

[Baby Damsel 219]

Were you running any emergency measures? Battery air pump, or turning water over manually?

Going to guess you had oxygen deprivation, which killed fish and some inverts. Death is causing some ammonia. If minimal, corals should be fine. I’ve read on this forum that prime is not great for ammonia neutralization, but will let others chime in.

Gonna have to go with this to there needs to be a crashing point for the water either in the sump or in the main display but oxygen needs to break through the water surface and into the aquarium to provide gas exchange fro you fishies and inverts