post crash treatment

[swampy]

Ugh, my tank crashed last night and I'm still trying to get it normalized. I think it was due to oxygen deprivation. I had dosed my tank with Red Slim Remover and had an air stone going in the back of my biocube but I don't think it was enough. I know stupid stupid stupid, it didn't even really need it just had a bit of red slime in the corner, painful lesson learned All my SPS are fried, including the 2 pieces I just got from the meeting , my acans and elegance are rebounding but my chalices are shredded but are trying to hang on, 2 fish and my sexy shrimp are gone (took me a a day+ to find them so that was just is adding the the chemical problem).

I done a total of 50% water change and will be doing more tonight. I've added carbon and put back in my Chemipure elite. Is there anything else I should be doing. I just hate sitting around watching my corals melt away. Will dipping them CoralRx help so of the LPS?

Just when I thought my tank was getting to a good point.

 

[mstrassbur]

sorry to hear about your tank crashing,
I got a couple of frags from you a couple of weeks back, if you need I have a few zoas frags that you are welcome to take when things are back to normal. manny

 

[swampy]

Thanks Manny

 

[pvh]

Damn...sorry to hear what happened.

 

[pillowfish]

I have personally never used CoralRx but I would think that it may just add more stress to the corals. I would just continue with the water changes make sure the parameters are as stable as possible and keep changing out the carbon. If you think fragging anything out will give it a better chance of survival I would personally take that route especially if something is looking in rough shape. Skim pretty heavy and wet as well that should help remove a lot of the crap out of the water as well. Good luck and sorry to hear about the crash

 

[swampy]

Finally figured out why I crashed. The night of the crash I was using a 1tsp spoon to measure Calcium buffer and baking soda instead of my normal .5tsp spoon, I realized this last week when I was organizing my stuff and found 2 different tsp spoons. My CA and Alk had dropped a bit so I was adding a more than usual to start. But then it went from a 1.5tsp morning and night it was 3tsp. Which I think then caused a ph spike killed some stuff then you know the story of stuff dying in a small tank. Bad things happen fast. Painful lesson learned, don't do 20 things to your tank in one night (like make lots or frags add redslime remover and heavy dose your thank), don't try to quickly catch up you Ca, and always double check you measuring spoons. I lost of couple of nice chalices but a majority of my tank rebounded rather quickly. I since added 2 clams to fill some of the space, yipee for my new LEDs.

The good news is that I'm now setting up a hospital tank to transfer corals into in case of issues with the main tank. We'll it's being called a hospital tank but it's really going to be my Anemone tank with some open space for white sand.

 

[JayM]

It wasn't your calcium buffer, but 3 tsp in a biocube of baking soda probably spiked your alk...and that is what hurt your corals.

i've never seen what 3 tsp of baking soda would do to a 29 gallon water volume, but it was a lot.

Watch for an ammonia spike, run carbon, skim wet.....and hope for the best

 

[swampy]

It wasn't your calcium buffer, but 3 tsp in a biocube of baking soda probably spiked your alk...and that is what hurt your corals.

i've never seen what 3 tsp of baking soda would do to a 29 gallon water volume, but it was a lot.

Watch for an ammonia spike, run carbon, skim wet.....and hope for the best

Thanks for the good wishes. I agree it was the baking soda. The orginal crash was a month ago, but I just figured out how I did it. Luckly with carbon and water changes I was able to save 75% of my corals. But my Death Star chalice was lost.