Left for 6 days for a fun trip to the Georgia Aquarium then spending 3 day lounging on the beaches of Daytona. Did a water change in my 75g. Checked to make sure all numbers were spot on, had the lighting timer set for 11 hours of daylight, all good, been up and running for 2 and a half years. Well, we arrived back home today to find my tank lights off, powerheads shut down and the tank was foul! :eek3: Apparently we must have had a power surge from a storm because 3 switches were tripped in our breaker box. Unfortunately one breaker controlled my aquarium and other was the deep freeze. You can only imagine how bad that was.
My wife turned on the fax machine and sure enough, according to the fax machine the power went off the night we left so my fish were sitting in still water with no lighting and no water movement for 6 days. Most of my corals died. The only survivors were about half of the mushroom corals. My yellow tang died. I had 5 blue/green chromis'.
Only two survived. I've had a stubborn yellow tail damsel in their this whole time. He lived. So now my only survivors are the damsel, two blue/greens, some nassarius snails and mushroom corals. I instantly changed up 10 gallons as an emergency to remove some of the stench and other toxic buildup. Later in the day after a few hours of lighting and power heads running the damsel and chromises starting coming out of hiding. THis upsets me. when I first got my mushrooms they started as ten attached to a rock. Over the last few years they balooned to over sixty of them.
So now what? After removing dead items and the water change the stench from the water was gone. Should I do another water change tomorrow? Watch all my numbers? Thanks
My wife turned on the fax machine and sure enough, according to the fax machine the power went off the night we left so my fish were sitting in still water with no lighting and no water movement for 6 days. Most of my corals died. The only survivors were about half of the mushroom corals. My yellow tang died. I had 5 blue/green chromis'.
Only two survived. I've had a stubborn yellow tail damsel in their this whole time. He lived. So now my only survivors are the damsel, two blue/greens, some nassarius snails and mushroom corals. I instantly changed up 10 gallons as an emergency to remove some of the stench and other toxic buildup. Later in the day after a few hours of lighting and power heads running the damsel and chromises starting coming out of hiding. THis upsets me. when I first got my mushrooms they started as ten attached to a rock. Over the last few years they balooned to over sixty of them.So now what? After removing dead items and the water change the stench from the water was gone. Should I do another water change tomorrow? Watch all my numbers? Thanks
