What did you do to your tank today?
- Thread starter JOSE CASAS
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D@mn near killed my little tank............
Was doing some routine maintenance and swapped out the filter sock for what I thought was a clean one. Apparently there was soap, or Oxy Clean left in the sock. 30 seconds after the swap, my sump looked like a bubble bath, skimmer was going bonkers and everything in the tank was NOT happy to say the least. After about another 60 seconds of OH F√CK...I shut the skimmer down and started mixing water for the major WC I knew I now needed to do. While the water was mixing, I sped to the closest LFS (The Reef) and picked up a jumbo carton of carbon and a Poly filter. Round trip maybe 15 minutes... By the time I got home, the bubbles were threatening to take over. Got out the pump and started pumping water as fast as I could go. The little tank is a 58 gal with about 12 or so gallons additional in the sump. I ended up doing about a 40 gallon water change in addition to adding the new Poly filter and about a half pound of carbon.
Seems the coral may have made it. Only loss so far besides a few micro brittle stars is a Flame hawk that was the 1st fish I put in that tank. Had him since the tank was running. About 9 months. Super bummed. Even performed fish CPR trying to bring him back. No such luck... Now time will tell if anybody else fell victim to my apparent lax rinsing habbits...
If I were to suggest anything from this to you, my fellow reefers, is ALWAYS at LEAST double rinse your filter socks. That, and as an ounce of prevention, have some carbon and maybe a Poly filter laying around... That 15 minute trip for me may have cost me Mr. Flame Hawk.....
Was doing some routine maintenance and swapped out the filter sock for what I thought was a clean one. Apparently there was soap, or Oxy Clean left in the sock. 30 seconds after the swap, my sump looked like a bubble bath, skimmer was going bonkers and everything in the tank was NOT happy to say the least. After about another 60 seconds of OH F√CK...I shut the skimmer down and started mixing water for the major WC I knew I now needed to do. While the water was mixing, I sped to the closest LFS (The Reef) and picked up a jumbo carton of carbon and a Poly filter. Round trip maybe 15 minutes... By the time I got home, the bubbles were threatening to take over. Got out the pump and started pumping water as fast as I could go. The little tank is a 58 gal with about 12 or so gallons additional in the sump. I ended up doing about a 40 gallon water change in addition to adding the new Poly filter and about a half pound of carbon.
Seems the coral may have made it. Only loss so far besides a few micro brittle stars is a Flame hawk that was the 1st fish I put in that tank. Had him since the tank was running. About 9 months. Super bummed. Even performed fish CPR trying to bring him back. No such luck... Now time will tell if anybody else fell victim to my apparent lax rinsing habbits...
If I were to suggest anything from this to you, my fellow reefers, is ALWAYS at LEAST double rinse your filter socks. That, and as an ounce of prevention, have some carbon and maybe a Poly filter laying around... That 15 minute trip for me may have cost me Mr. Flame Hawk.....
Sorry about your flame hawk. That really blows. Your story is precisely why I don't use filter socks. I much rather just cut a sheet of filter floss and when it's done toss it and cut a new one. Everyone that calls me paranoid I feel the one incident like yours is good enough for me and honestly I feel is likely to happen sooner or later.
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Ohana means family and family means no seahorse gets left behind.
Ohana means family and family means no seahorse gets left behind.
