My Reef Tank Crashed :(

Well i'm sittin watchin the Bears gettin tossed around by the falcolns when I noticed my tank start to get cloudy and cloudier.... I jumped out and ran to the tank and screamed "WTF!!!" . I opened up my stand door and saw calcium dripping into the sump from my auto doser. Then I really screamed "WTF!!!!!". I looked ver at my autodoser and saw 1/2 the calcium resoivoir was empty which means about a 1/4 gallon of calcium dripped into my system. I use B-ionic two part system.

My tank crashed!!! I sat their numb as I saw it snow. Sitting there helpless looking at it .

I have my auto doser on my freshwater bin for my ato. And I lifted the auto doser above the water pumps which cause the Ca and Alk to run down the tubing. when I set it down it must of created some type of siphon from the Ca and alk holding tubs. Slowly chemicals leaked into my sump at a heavy heavy drip. So my tank looks like this:







I just got done performin a 50% waer change. I dont know if I can bring this back to life. Anyone ever have their system crash? If so did you bring back to life? How?

Im just numb right now.... Dont know what to think.

 

daaaaaannnnnnggggggggggg!!! sorry to hear about that. that must really suck, poor fish and corals

 

WOW, that really sucks. Have no idea how to deal with it other than what you have already done.

Good luck.

 

bummer...sorry to hear it.

 

What's your ph? If it's just calcium it will clear up.
I had the same thing happen a few months ago and nothing was harmed in my tank.

 

I'd try changing out all the water as fast as possible. Even if you have to use straight tap water for the time being. drain all the water down to about an inch or two off of the substrate and refill.

Can't get much worse than it already is.

 

my apex displayed 8.8 when it was snowing.

Has dropped down significantly to 8.3 after water change.

 

I would chill out and not do anything more IMO. It will clear up

 

I can only hope.... Im just sitting running all the mone Ive spent in livestock. All the good deals. Hard finds. so on and so forth. :-/

 

Yeah don't panic, look to the wild for direction here. Make slower changes. I'd continue doing 10% wc's daily until the numbers start to test closer to normal. Get the water to an LFS store for a full battery of tests and post the results on one of the ASAP sheets in my sig. That should give you an idea of what direction to head in next.