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EMERGENCY - Help! 40 breeder leaked all over floor
I woke up at 2am to use the bathroom and heard the sound of water splashing. I went to look in my living room in horror and disbelief. Then I saw it, half the water gone! I think the stupid hob protein skimmer overflowed, because I dont see any cracks in the tank. But I had to drain the whole...
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Hawk82 thank you for posting clear documentation
when the tank cracked you had to act fast, you separated the major components quickly and effectively
Reef Tank CPR
this thread will be to track emergency reef saving procedures, with quick reactions.
look at this job underway.
EMERGENCY - tank crashing help..
attached is my ICP for january, I've been battling some weird stuff thats been haunting me since christmas. And I'm at the point of shutting the entire tank down. but before I do that I just want to make sure I exhausted all options.. The tank is 650 peninsula that has been running for a year...
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we are moving away from tank crashing diagnosis and well into fish disease diagnosis, using clues shown in his opening tank pictures.
Notice our first move in most jobs: the first thing you do when you suspect a crash impending for your $$ coral is you drop the overall light levels you were used to running during peak production
that's a big, big sunburn risk. you instantly create lower light/cloudy light reef low burn with high blues and no white spectrum if you are arresting a coral bleaching event.
we will then ensure each reef is cleaned out of invasions, breathing and expressing waste cleanly inside vs pent up with algae and other plugging matting invasions, then a big water change, then we focus on sustained feeding and water changes exactly like an exercise program, for the reef.
we don't let reefs sit idly by here, this is an actionable thread and we focus on the physical ways available for saving and preventing reef tank crashes where possible. we can document crash recovery for the extreme examples of loss, we can use any crashed system as a new biofilter as well in a rebuilt tank
the filter bacteria did not die during a crash, the higher animals did.
Fish disease is going to be a big cause of crashes here, but folks will think a tank parameter they can measure caused the initial fish loss or crash
skipping disease preps in mixed fish system crashes your tank because they all wait to die until you're on vacation, overloading your filtration setup.
it is rare rare that your crashing system happened from a parameter you had to pay ICP to detect.
stray voltage issues account for a vastly small % of jobs
storms and electrical outage events are a decent contributor to crash study threads, but above all, top cause of tank crashes in my opinion is fish disease wipeouts.
Controlling rtn loss/bleaching after temp shocks in sps corals:
Reef Tank Crash
Hi all, I could use some help with a tank issue i'm currently dealing with. Summer temperatures here get quite hot, and so I had turned down my heater. I had noticed tank temperatures were somewhat low (76.5 F or so), but nothing crazy. I recently upgraded to a Reefer 350, and kept the old...
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