My system has totally collapsed.
last tuesday my wife came home from her study group at about 10:30 and thought she smelled smoke that seemed to be coming from my tank. She took a quick look but didn't see anything. She continued to look around, when she looked under my tank again and this time saw flames. She quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire, then called 911. I was not home at the time.
Putting out the fire required her to spray the firextinguisher, essentially into my sump, as the fire was behind it. It appears that the cord to a maxijet, which was attached to a float switch for my ATO, caught fire. When the FD arrived they cut power to the room, made sure the fire was out and left it for me to figure out when I got home.
When I got home I did close to a 50 percent water change on my display tank, wich was now isolated from the sump. I went to work the next day, and had a buisness event that evening. Came home and started to run carbon agressively, my wife went out a got the carbon for me that day. On thursday I worked a 1/2 day, came home and took apart the sump, cleaned everthing real good and then got the sump back online. Everything looked real good. Friday mornging everything is looing real good. I cam home friday night and things are going downhill. Many of my SPS are showing signes of tissue necrossis. I fraged the corals, to remove the tissue necorssis and changed out the carbon. I woke up Saturday morning and all of my acropora where gone, except for a millie from Sanjay's tank. I pulled the lone millie and my few montipora's and brought them to a freinds house to hold for me.
I currently have my two Clown fish, the only other survivors along with a few zoas in a bucket with a power head and a peice of live rock. I am going to move them into a nanocube that I had laying around for the time being.
I am thinking of tearing down my 65 gallon tank, and focusing my energy on my upgrade wich is coming soon. I want to cook the rock, and it will allow me sell off my equipment to put towards new stuff for the 180.
Any opinons on cooking live rock (there is no heat involved)? I have had most of the rock for six to seven years, and for most of that time I ran an crap skimmer and no PO4 media until very recently.
last tuesday my wife came home from her study group at about 10:30 and thought she smelled smoke that seemed to be coming from my tank. She took a quick look but didn't see anything. She continued to look around, when she looked under my tank again and this time saw flames. She quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire, then called 911. I was not home at the time.
Putting out the fire required her to spray the firextinguisher, essentially into my sump, as the fire was behind it. It appears that the cord to a maxijet, which was attached to a float switch for my ATO, caught fire. When the FD arrived they cut power to the room, made sure the fire was out and left it for me to figure out when I got home.
When I got home I did close to a 50 percent water change on my display tank, wich was now isolated from the sump. I went to work the next day, and had a buisness event that evening. Came home and started to run carbon agressively, my wife went out a got the carbon for me that day. On thursday I worked a 1/2 day, came home and took apart the sump, cleaned everthing real good and then got the sump back online. Everything looked real good. Friday mornging everything is looing real good. I cam home friday night and things are going downhill. Many of my SPS are showing signes of tissue necrossis. I fraged the corals, to remove the tissue necorssis and changed out the carbon. I woke up Saturday morning and all of my acropora where gone, except for a millie from Sanjay's tank. I pulled the lone millie and my few montipora's and brought them to a freinds house to hold for me.
I currently have my two Clown fish, the only other survivors along with a few zoas in a bucket with a power head and a peice of live rock. I am going to move them into a nanocube that I had laying around for the time being.
I am thinking of tearing down my 65 gallon tank, and focusing my energy on my upgrade wich is coming soon. I want to cook the rock, and it will allow me sell off my equipment to put towards new stuff for the 180.
Any opinons on cooking live rock (there is no heat involved)? I have had most of the rock for six to seven years, and for most of that time I ran an crap skimmer and no PO4 media until very recently.
