Well it has happened to me.....after years and years of having an anemone and getting lucky with the splits just staying all next to one another and easy to trade or sell to my LFS the worst hung happened. Last month I leave town for a weekend with everything looking good. Come home and the tank is cloudy white like it had milk in it....heart drops and a try to peer into the tank and can’t see at all. Do a 50 gallon water change immediately and another the next day, tank is clearer and I see the damage.....6 fish dead, 2 anemones melted to who knows what and every single coral dead. Even those annoying polyps I’ve wanted to get rid of for the last 4 years. Softy, lps, and sps, all dead and some coraline on the rocks. Coralline on the pane of the tank is still going strong, fish that survived are fine and now parameters are back in line.
I didn’t check parameters when I got home, I just went to panic mode and did water changes so I’m not sure what the culprit could have been or if it was anything other than the anemones just died. But if that’s the case, I would imagine they needed a reason to die. It is sad, my clownfish hang out by the rock like they don’t know what happened to Their home.
I guess, if there is one positive in this, it got rid of some softy’s and polyps that I wanted to get rid of but had no way without taking the tank apart to get to The rock. Real bummer honestly.
I will run the tank as it is for a few months and slowly add a few sps pieces back into the system.
corey
I didn’t check parameters when I got home, I just went to panic mode and did water changes so I’m not sure what the culprit could have been or if it was anything other than the anemones just died. But if that’s the case, I would imagine they needed a reason to die. It is sad, my clownfish hang out by the rock like they don’t know what happened to Their home.
I guess, if there is one positive in this, it got rid of some softy’s and polyps that I wanted to get rid of but had no way without taking the tank apart to get to The rock. Real bummer honestly.
I will run the tank as it is for a few months and slowly add a few sps pieces back into the system.
corey